Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the Trump administration of “inventing a new eternal war” after the Pentagon deployed the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, its largest warship, into Caribbean waters to ramp up anti-drug efforts.
According to a court filing from the U.S. Department of Defense, six suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — designated by the Trump administration as a terrorist organization — were killed in a U.S. military strike on a vessel in the region, according to a Newsweek report published on Saturday.
“The people of the United States know it, they are inventing a new eternal war. They promised they would never get involved in another war, and now they are inventing a war that we are going to prevent. How?” Maduro said in Caracas, according to state media. “By mobilizing the peoples of South America.”
