The possibility of an armed conflict between the United States and Venezuela continues in the growing. The President Donald Trump has decided to cancel diplomatic efforts to reach an agreement with the regime of Nicolás Maduroinstructing their special envoy, Richard Grenellto stop every approach, according to sources from the American administration.
The decision, advanced by The New York Timesthere is a rebuild of an unprecedented military deployment in the Caribbean and a series of attacks on the Venezuelan coast against supposed narcolancas. This Trump ordagory would end the efforts that Grenelll had headed with the Venezuelan government, aimed at exploring possible negotiations between both countries.
Trump said a few days ago before the Congress that the US is involved in “A non -international armed conflict” With drug posters, which its administration has defined as terrorist organizations. In addition, he has pointed out Nicolás Maduro, for whom he offers 50 million dollars to whom he offers information that leads to his arrest, such as the leader of the Los Soles poster.
Two of the narcolancas destroyed by the US.
White House / Reuters
According to the filtered report, the presidential order was communicated directly by Trump to Grenelll last Thursday in the Oval Office, where high military commanders were immediate, and will be applied immediately, Stoping any ongoing diplomatic initiative Towards the Chavista regime.
Although the president, in a speech this Sunday at the Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia, suggested that anti -drug operations could be extended from the sea to earth, sources cited by the agency Reuters They slide that the Republican president It has not yet decided to give a green light To this second phase of your plan.
The American army keeps at least eight warships in the Caribbean and a rapid attack submarine of nuclear propulsion, as well as more than 4,500 soldiers, under the argument of combating drug trafficking. Maduro, on the other hand, has defended that it is an attempt to Promote “a regime change” and impose “puppet governments” in Venezuela.
Since August, US forces have destroyed at least five vessels in the South Caribbean justifying that they transported drugs in the direction of the US. These operations have been paid with The death of about twenty people.
The US Army attacks a drug vessel allegedly from Venezuela
The New York Times He also reported a few days ago that in the White House a broader campaign is being drawn to increase military pressure on the Chavista regime, with the aim of Force the departure of Maduro from power. A plan that would be headed by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Pedro Urruchurtu, María Corina Machado advisorhe said that there is even a Detailed plan for the first 100 hours after a hypothetical fall of Maduro, which would include The transfer of power to Edmundo Gonzálezopponent exiled in Spain and considered by international observers as the true winner of the 2024 elections.