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Caribbean-Latin America
New Cuban Missile Crisis: Trump Sends Fleet to Sea, Maduro Announces Mobilization
2025-08-23
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Ol'ga Kuznetsova

[REGNUM] A few days ago, the Pentagon — through a network of affiliated media — sent more than four thousand Marines, along with regular sailors, to the waters of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The operation will be part of stepped-up efforts to combat Latin American cartels, most of which the White House has already designated as terrorist organizations.

At the same time, the American defense departments made it clear that the transfer is only part of a large-scale redeployment of military resources in favor of the Southern Command of the US Armed Forces. It is planned to be carried out within three weeks, and this entire company will spend at least several months in Caribbean waters.

Thus, as part of the mission, the Southern Command will additionally be sent a nuclear attack submarine, P8 Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft, several destroyers and a missile cruiser.

Representatives of American structures do not forget to add that the militarization of the Caribbean Sea is, first and foremost, a “show of force,” as well as the creation of an opportunity for the president and military command to have the broadest range of actions—in the event that Donald Trump decides to declare the start of military action.

Some officials, however, said that the involvement of the Marine Corps in such an event caused some commotion in the Pentagon.

It turns out that most of the personnel assigned to Southern Command have no prior experience in countering drug trafficking, so much of the work will have to fall back to the Coast Guard, as always.

CARACAS REACTION
Venezuela did not remain silent in response to what was happening in the Caribbean. President Nicolas Maduro almost immediately declared that “no empire will touch the sacred land of Venezuela or South America.”

Also, with his characteristic pathos, the Bolivarian leader said that “the seas, the sky and the lands of the region must be defended by the peoples themselves,” recalling that “ never again should any empire set foot on the land liberated by Simón Bolívar.”

After casually criticizing the humiliating presence of American military bases in Colombia, Maduro began to retaliate.

The Guacamaya plan, created to directly counter a possible foreign invasion of the Bolivarian Republic, was put into action.

Four and a half million armed militiamen have been called up to defend the country, and the authorities have declared their readiness to distribute rifles to anyone who wants to participate in defending the Motherland.

Already on August 22, Maduro announced that he had called all militia members to military headquarters, military units, central squares and popular defense centers for the coming Saturday and Sunday for national registration in the Bolivarian National Militia.

MEXICAN PASSIONS
At the same time, the situation in Mexico, which has recently received increased attention from US law enforcement agencies, is heating up.

The country's leadership effectively condemned the US interventionist games in the Caribbean and also began to deny cooperation with the new program of the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

At the same time, the military presence in the state of Sinaloa, where American agents have been spotted on numerous occasions, has been strengthened. One hundred patrol cars are planned to be deployed there, and the state police are allowed to use weapons exclusively in the interests of the army.

These measures are aimed against the Sinaloa drug cartel, with which the White House accuses the entire leadership of the Bolivarian Republic of collaborating.

According to Trump's team, the Maduro government is producing cocaine, and the Sinaloa cartel is delivering it to the United States.

Interestingly, a trial against one of the captured leaders of this cartel, El Mayo, is expected in New York soon. The main intrigue of the hearing, scheduled for August 25, is whether or not there is an agreement between El Mayo and the American authorities, who are promising all sorts of concessions for just a trifle - testimony against the President of Venezuela.

Considering that El Mayo could well be blackmailed with possible criminal prosecution of his relatives, extracting testimony of this kind from anyone would hardly be difficult.

NEW CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS?
At the moment, in the American information segment, individual congressmen are spreading news that American destroyers have almost reached the shores of Venezuela.

It is casually mentioned that the units participating in the operation in the Caribbean were in the eastern Mediterranean for several months – and this was during the tensions between Israel, Hamas and Iran.

The very fact of such an agenda is already escalating the situation, and some experts are directly hinting that they want to do with the Bolivarian Republic “the same thing as with Iran.”

"Bolivarian Crimea": Will Maduro Open a New Front in Latin America
However, for now, most of the events – both on the part of Washington and on the part of Caracas – are of a demonstrative nature and do not go beyond “saber rattling.”

Certain provocations from the Southern Command can be expected - and this coming weekend, but a war in the classical sense that Washington usually arranges is unlikely to happen.

The acceleration of the necessary narratives has not yet reached its peak, no serious ultimatums have been presented to Caracas - the local opposition's messages that "Maduro's days are numbered" can be ignored.

The Pentagon and White House have publicly focused on other regional hotspots, with Southern Command leadership holding a series of events in Argentina.

It is highly likely that everything that is happening is just a large-scale provocation by Washington, aimed at promoting Donald Trump's anti-drug policy. Whether this is true or not will become clear in the next couple of weeks.

Posted by:badanov

#3  Mobilization? You really trust your own general population with guns?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-08-23 09:31  

#2  What Are the Real Reasons Behind Washington’s Latest Show of Force Against Venezuela?
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-08-23 09:26  

#1  An invasion of Chicago seems more likely.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-08-23 09:11  

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