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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro connected Saturday (November 15, 2025) slammed caller associated subject exercises by the United States and its state Trinidad and Tobago arsenic "irresponsible," with Washington expanding its equipped beingness successful the Caribbean.
Caracas claims caller U.S. subject enactment successful the portion -- which Washington says is directed against cause gangs -- is truly a ploy to overthrow leftist person Maduro.
This is the 2nd associated grooming workout carried retired by the United States and Trinidad and Tobago successful little than a month.
In October, a U.S. guided rocket destroyer docked astatine Trinidad for 4 days for different circular of signifier drills -- wrong firing scope of Venezuela, whose authorities called it a "provocation."
"The authorities of Trinidad and Tobago has erstwhile again announced irresponsible exercises, lending its waters disconnected the seashore of Sucre authorities for subject exercises that are intended to beryllium threatening to a republic similar Venezuela, which does not let itself to beryllium threatened by anyone," Mr. Maduro said during an lawsuit successful Caracas connected Saturday.
Mr. Maduro called connected his supporters successful the eastbound states of the state to clasp "a vigil and a imperishable march successful the streets" during the subject maneuvers, scheduled for November 16-21.
The United States has deployed warships, combatant jets and thousands of soldiers to Latin America successful caller weeks and launched strikes connected 21 alleged drug-smuggling boats, sidesplitting astatine slightest 80 people.
No grounds provided by Washington
Washington has provided nary grounds those targeted were traffickers, and rights perceiver groups accidental the strikes are amerciable regardless.
On Tuesday, a U.S. craft bearer onslaught radical besides arrived successful the region, prompting Caracas to denote a "massive" retaliatory deployment.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth connected Thursday announced a subject cognition aimed astatine "narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere," but it was unclear however it mightiness disagree from the existing U.S. subject deployment.
