The United States government ordered the sending of ten F-35 fighters to an aerodrome in Puerto Rico for operations against drug cartels in the Caribbean, according to a report published on Friday by Reuters.
Official sources, who spoke to the British agency on a condition of anonymous, said the fighters are being sent to conduct operations against organizations classified by the United States as narcoterrorist and operate in the southern Caribbean, a description that encompasses the criminal groups of Los Soles and Tren de Aragua, which Washington binds to Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro.
According to Reuters, aircraft are expected to arrive in Puerto Rico at the end of next week.
The United States had already sent eight war ships and a nuclear submarine for the Caribbean Sea near Venezuela, with the aim of preventing drugs to arrive in the US territory.
On Tuesday (2), US President Donald Trump announced that a drug boat was hit by US military in the Caribbean Sea. He said the charge was from Aragua’s Tren and 11 people on board were killed.
The Chavista regime claims that the American military operation in southern Caribbean is an “excuse” for an intervention in Venezuela.
On Thursday (4), the US Department of Defense reported that two Venezuela military aircraft flew close to one of the American Navy ships that are in international water in the Caribbean, an action that the Pentagon called “highly provocative maneuver”.
