US EditionUS Marines Conducting Drills in Trinidad and Tobago, Just Miles From Venezuela's Coast - News From Antiwar.com
The joint exercises aim to enhance regional stability and counter transnational threats amid rising U.S.-Venezuela tensions, involving the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit and local forces.
- On Sunday, the U.S. Marine Corps' 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit began weeklong training in Trinidad and Tobago, less than ten miles off Venezuela's coast, the U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago announced.
- To support USSOUTHCOM's mission, the drills were designed to promote regional stability, counter transnational threats, and enhance disaster response capabilities in coordination with local and national government officials, emergency services, and the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force.
- The aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford arrived the same Sunday the training began, following last month’s USS Gravely stationing at Port of Spain, with the Government of Trinidad and Tobago affirming support for the U.S. partnership.
- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Saturday the exercises and USS Gerald Ford's presence `gravely threaten the peace of the Caribbean`, while critics and Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat, Foreign Relations Committee, warned of legal constraints and potential illegality.
- The president reportedly approved CIA operations inside Venezuela and declined to rule out strikes, while President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One `I've sort of made up my mind, yeah,`.
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As the military exercise between Trinidad and Tobago and the United States continues, the Venezuelan President stated on Monday that he was ready to discuss "on a one-on-one" basis with his American counterpart, who was already in favour of it.
Report: Trinidad & Tobago Army Kept in Dark on US Southern Command Drill
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—A local Trinidad and Tobago news outlet reported on Sunday that the country’s army had not been informed about military exercises the United States expects to conduct only a few miles off the coast of Venezuela in Trinidad and Tobago. Analysts see this new development as a provocation by US imperialism and the submissive Trinidadian government. “These exercises start tomorrow, and we haven’t received any word,” an an…
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, described this Saturday as "irresponsible" the new military exercises announced by the United States and its ally Trinidad and Tobago, in the framework of the maneuvers that Washington develops against drug trafficking in the Caribbean. This is the second joint training carried out by both countries in less than a month. A US destroyer docked at the end of October on Trinidadian coasts, about 10 km fro…
US Marines Conducting Drills in Trinidad and Tobago, Just Miles From Venezuela's Coast - News From Antiwar.com
US Marines began drills on Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean island nation that's just miles off the coast of Venezuela, as the US military continues its activity in the region amid a push toward a potential US attack aimed at ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The US Embassy…
T&T – PM Supports US Military Exercises Conducted in the Country
Port OF SPAIN, Trinidad —Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the presence of United States military troops in the region has already contributed to a “significant reduction in the trafficking of guns, drugs, and humans” into Trinidad and Tobago, even as the Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro warned that the twin island republic’s joint military drills with the North American country could “threaten peace” in the Caribbea…
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