Venezuela Situation: US Declares War on 'Narco-Terrorism'

Lula hopes to soon put an end to tensions with Trump and offers himself as a mediator with Venezuela

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held trade negotiations with his counterpart Donald Trump in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday amid tensions over Washington's 50% tariff on Brasilia. It was “excellent” and he believes that “very soon there will be no more problems between the United States and Brazil.”
Lula offered on Sunday to act as a mediator in the crisis between the United States and Venezuela.
“If the US needs Brazil's support to address the problem in Venezuela, we are willing to help because we want to maintain peace in South America,” said the Brazilian president.
Lula espera poner fin pronto a las tensiones con Trump y se ofrece como mediador con Venezuela - EFE



Sen. Lindsey Graham says land strikes in Venezuela are a "real possibility"

Sen. Lindsey Graham says land strikes in Venezuela are a "real possibility"

+ “President Trump told me yesterday that he plans to brief members of Congress, upon his return from Asia, on possible future military operations against Venezuela and Colombia,” Graham said in an interview on CBS's “Face The Nation.”
+ “There will be a briefing in Congress on the possible expansion from sea to land. I support that idea,” added the Republican senator, who is very close to the US president.
He has all the authority in the world. “This is not murder. This is protecting the United States from poisoning by narco-terrorists from Venezuela and Colombia," said the South Carolina senator.
Graham refuted criticism from Arizona Democratic Senator Rubén Gallego and responded: "The military is not killing anyone.
They are making the United States safer by pursuing a narco-terrorist. They are following legal orders,"
he said.
 
The Wagner Group, founded by Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin in 2014, has set up shop in Venezuela, announcing that Russia will provide informational, logistical, and military support to Nicolás Maduro.

Following agreement between Venezuela and Russia, Wagner Group commandos begin arriving in Venezuela​

Following a cooperation and military alliance agreement between Nicolás Maduro's Venezuelan government and Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation, air and cargo contingents begin arriving in Caracas, Venezuela, with new Russian weaponry. Contingents of Russian mercenaries integrated with African and Arab elements.
The Wagner Group is an integral part of the Russian war in Ukraine. But the paramilitary unit is also active in other countries around the world. There, it is supposed to strengthen Russian influence.

The military, political, and economic importance of the Wagner Group has grown steadily in recent years. According to an analysis by the US think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Russia has increasingly used paramilitary units and private military companies such as the Wagner Group. It is not always possible to track their activities in concrete terms, but Wagner is said to be active in around 30 countries worldwide, including Syria and Mali.

 

Venezuela claims to have captured a mercenary group linked to the CIA​


On Sunday, the Venezuelan government claimed to have captured "a group of mercenaries with direct information" from the CIA and, based on this, asserted that a "false flag attack" is underway with the aim of sparking an open military conflict between Caracas and the United States.

"Venezuela reports that it has captured a mercenary group with direct information from the US intelligence agency, the CIA, and has determined that a false flag attack is underway from waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago, or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory itself, which will generate a full-scale military confrontation against our country," Caracas said in a statement released by the Ministry of Information.

In the text, the government headed by Nicolás Maduro compared this scenario to "the provocations of the Battleship Maine and the Gulf of Tonkin" in operations prior to the start of the Spanish-American War in Cuba and the Vietnam War.

Likewise, in the same piece, Caracas denounced as "military provocation by Trinidad and Tobago in coordination with the CIA" the military exercises with the United States announced on Friday and begun on Sunday, which involved the arrival in Port of Spain of the warship USS Gravely in parallel with the deployment of the largest US aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, justified as part of the fight against organizations dedicated to drug trafficking in Caribbean waters. Ford, justified as part of the fight against drug trafficking organizations in Caribbean waters.

 

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