He USS Lake Erie It measures 173 meters of length by manga, displaces 9,800 tons and is based in the port of San Diego, in California. This attack holder bolt vessel Tomahawkin addition to other weapons of high offensive and defensive power.
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USA accuses the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Madurobeing the leader of Los Soles Cartel Already beginning of August doubled up to 50 million dollars the reward for its capture.
Photography of the Uss Erie ship (CG-70), in the middle of the United States military deployment in the Caribbean, in its transit through the Panama Canal this Friday, August 29, 2025. (EFE/ Welcome Velasco).
Also, before He had included the Los Soles Cartel in his list of global terrorist organizationswhich enables military actions against that mafia anywhere in the world, among other measures.
Specifically, the United States has confirmed shipping to the Caribbean Sea of the submarine USS Newport News; of three destroyers: USS Serly, USS Jason Dunham and USS Sampson; of the Uss Lake Erie Lanzamisiles ship, of the Anfibio Uss Iwo Jima assault ship and the USS San Antonio and Uss Fort Lauderdale landing.
The USS Sampson War Ship (DDG 102) of the United States Navy at the International Cruise Terminal of Amador, in Panama City, on August 30, 2025. (Photo by Martin Bernetti / AFP).
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In all these boats there are more than 6,700 military. Only in the amphibious and landing ships there are about 4,500 sailors and marines.
To this fleet the P-8 airplanes are added, whose mission is to collect intelligence information.
The destroyers USS Serly, USS Jasson Dunham and Uss Sampson They will be a site in international waters very close to the coast of Venezuela, the Reuters agency reported.
The Pentagon has not informed about the exact location of the other vessels.
It’s about An unprecedented deployment in the region in recent history.
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Admiral Daryl Caudle, head of Naval Operations, repeatedly assured The Washington Post that The deployment seeks to support operations against drug cartels based in Venezuelaalthough he avoided giving more details because they are classified information.
The Washington Post stressed that There are no official signs of a land incursion planned in Venezuelaand the White House has not given indications of the deployment of troops in that country.
Nicolás Maduro during a visit to a military training field in Caracas. (Photo of Zurimar Campos / Presidency of Venezuela / AFP).
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In Venezuelain reaction to the deployment, the government of Ripe He has declared a state of maximum alert.
The Chavista regime also mobilized until 15,000 military troops Towards the border with Colombia, he has summoned the enlistment of the Bolivarian militia and has deployed drones and ships in its coastline.
On Sunday, the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino, warned that Venezuela prepares to fight if the United States dares to “set foot” in the territory.
Godfather, who accused the US of wanting to “seize the Caribbean Sea,” insisted that Venezuela prepares to “respond to any circumstance” and “any aggression of any intensity or nature” against its “sacred sovereignty.”
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Venezuelan army trucks transport tanks along a road in Valencia, Venezuela, on August 27, 2025. (Photo by Juan Carlos Hernández / AFP).
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What could really be behind this military deployment? For Andrés Gómez de la Torrespecialist in defense and intelligence issues, the action of the United States lends itself to various interpretations and conjectures.
“Initially, it is an anti -drug operation that has to do with the neutralization of the so -called corridors that have been formed for cocaine, fentanyl and other substances, of which the Caribbean Sea is part. That is a first reading,” He said Commerce.
“A second reading has to do with a diplomatic pressure method about the Venezuelan regime, and indirectly also an encrypted message towards Cuba about the presence of the United States in the region and its critical position with respect to the Maduro regime,” He added.
Gómez de la Torre said that USA It is also weaving a system of alliances and support in the region, whose clearest manifestations have been the positions of Argentina, Ecuador and Paraguaywho have declared to Los Soles Cartel as a terrorist organization. Also Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, who are aligning the syndication of the Venezuelan regime as linked to drug trafficking.
“Trinidad and Tobago has left open the possibility of providing its facilities, its territory for possible interdiction operations or missions that have to do with this deterrent policy of diplomatic pressure through the use of the military force that the Trump government is using,” Gómez de la Torre said.
About the reaction of VenezuelaThe analyst stressed that this has a lot to do with the domestic sphere.
“It is a regime that is with many internal problems and is very attractive, from the political point of view, scare the population, soliviant it to achieve cohesion and national unity. That is why all this choreography mounted by Maduro with the Bolivarian militia,” He said.
“That national unity factor, through nationalism, is what mature needs so much to stabilize its regime and stay in power,” He emphasized.
