Venezuela is deploying warships, drones to the coast as the American maritime squadron approaches Nicholas Maduro News

Defense Minister of Venezuela says that military ships and drones will be sent to patrols in the country’s coast amid heavy tension with the United States after that. Washington has published warships To the water off Venezuela to fight drug trafficking.

In a video on social media on Tuesday, Defense Minister Vladimir Badrino announced the “large” deployment of drones as well as naval patrols along the Caribbean coast in the country, including “large ships north in our territorial waters.”

the The move comes after Washington Last week, an amphibious swarm of three warships towards the coast of Venezuela in what he said was an operation against drug cartoons in Latin America.

The news agencies mentioned on Monday Two other American ships A routed missile incident and a submarine of a fast-powered nuclear-powered attack-to the Caribbean, and that about 4,500 American service members, including 2,200 naval infantry, were part of the publication.

The accumulation of the US Navy comes after US President Donald Trump accused last week Left Venezuela President Nicholas MaduroFrom participating in cocaine trafficking and working with drug gangs.

Washington has also announced that it had doubled a reward for picking up or trial of Maduro on drug charges from $ 25 million to $ 50 million. The United States also provides a $ 25 million reward for the arrest or trial of the Venezuelan Minister of the Popular Authority of Diosadado Capello.

US officials have accused Maduro and members of his government headed by the Cocayin Hotel Cartel Cartel de Los Solls, which was identified by Washington, a terrorist organization.

Maduro rejected the accusations and accused the United States of trying to incite regime change in his country.

Military accumulation

On Monday, Maduro insisted on a weekly television program that his country, unlike the neighboring Colombia, was “free of coca leaves and cocaine -free.”

Maduro, who also criticized the United States government for not treating drug consumption within its borders, mobilized hundreds of thousands of local militia members to enhance national security amid Washington’s threats.

About 15,000 Venezuelan soldiers have also been sent to the country’s borders with Colombia to eliminate criminal groups, including those involved in drug trafficking.

In a separate announcement on Tuesday, Defense Minister Badrino said that an ongoing operation in the northeastern corner of Venezuela has led to the dismantling of shipbuilding basins where criminals intend to “manufacture the semi -finals and boats to transport drugs in the sea” to the markets in Europe and North America.

The transition to the deployment of American warships and employees comes off Venezuela, while Trump is pushing the army to thwart the cartridges, which are blamed for the flow of fentanel and other illegal drugs in American societies, and for violence in some American cities.

Nuchias Fennifion reported on Tuesday that Venezuela’s mission to the United Nations condemned “the escalation of anti -United States measures and threats” in a speech.

In reference to the arrival of the imminent of the American ships off the coast, Venezuela told the United Nations that Washington’s actions were a “serious threat to regional peace and security”, while a nuclear -powered attack submarine was “a clear act of intimidation.”

The letter also called “guarantees” that the United States “will not spread or threaten the use of nuclear weapons in the region,” Noticias Venevision said.

Despite the military accumulation, analysts have reduced the possibility of an American invasion or US strikes on Venezuela, while many Venezuelan people have ignored the threat of the United States as a situation.

Maduro, who obtained a third term in his post after an elections in July 2024, which was described as very defective, was in Trump’s features since the first US term, from 2017 to 2021.

But the US policy of the maximum pressure on Venezuela, including the continuous oil ban, has failed to calm Maduro from power.

“I think what we see is an attempt to create anxiety in government circles and force Maduro to negotiate something,” Phil Gonson, the international crisis analyst, told AFP with regard to the building’s tension.