¿Cuántos días duraría el despliegue militar de EE. UU. y cómo ha reaccionado Nicolás Maduro?

This Thursday, three destroyer ships must arrive at the Venezuelan coasts, which the Pentagon ordered to send to the Caribbean Sea as part of the fight against drug trafficking and terrorist organizations. We go to Washington with Juan Camilo Merlano. What do you know about this deployment that has the Nicolás Maduro regime on alert?

Margarita, which gives the United States the ability not only to advance simple operations of interdiction, but also offensive. These destroyers are equipped with guided missile systems, with latest technology radars, and they also add, for example, spy planes, but fundamentally, an offensive submarine also, but fundamentally a group of fast-response amphibious. This means that it can allow landing and ground operations to be necessary. This is the USS Jason Dunham in one of its multiple exercises at sea.

In the images of the archive, the US Navy highlights the guided missile system of the vessel, as well as the USS Gravely and the USS Samson, the three destroyer ships that in a matter of hours should reach the Venezuelan coast. It is not the only deployment made by the United States. Last week, with the excuse of expanding the capabilities in the Caribbean Sea against terrorist organizations and drug trafficking, the United States announced that it was sending a rapid response force

made up of the amphibious USS Iwo Jima, the USS San Antonio and the USS Fort Lauderdale. In the statement with the announcement of the deployment, the Navy shared this photo of the boat and the crew on board, which in total are 4,500 men in those three ships, and thus described the capabilities. The Iwo Jima is the flagship ship, capable of carrying out global missions to achieve the strategic objectives of the United States, dissuade adversaries and guarantee free trade, maintaining the high open sea and free, in accordance with international law.

However, due to Hurricane Erin, which passes near the port of Norfolk in Virginia, its mobilization has been delayed. But in addition, also to combat drug trafficking, a submarine has been deployed to the area, and P-8 intelligence aircraft. That is, in total there are six ships, a submarine and aircraft, which are part of the mobilization, which is the largest in the region since the invasion of Panama in 1989.

This deployment is not routine. It is a strategic siege against that narco-state, because here what is determined by the United States is that the Soles Cartel took over the state and that the leader of that cartel is basically what is considered internally as if he were

the president of Venezuela.

The military deployment occurs as the United States hardens its strategy against the Maduro regime, raising the reward in its favor, 50 million dollars, and declaring him as head of the cartel of the suns. Just yesterday, the State Secretary, Christopher Landau, slandered Diosdado Cabello on his social media. You and your gang of criminal brutes have destroyed your homeland,

as a few times in human history, a great country has been destroyed. The elections of last year and the tsunami of migration abroad clearly demonstrate to the whole world the absolute repudiation of their own people. You who think you are so smart have not deceived anyone. You are the ones who have harassed and declared war on the people of Venezuela. That is why you and your gang of thugs run full of anguish while I am calm.

History shows how the tyrants end. The mobilization occurs after the reports of an order given by President Trump to the Pentagon to advance military, maritime and terrestrial operations against cartels of drug trafficking. Nicolás Maduro has been pointed out as the leader of the cartel Los Soles. According to what has been transcended, this would not be an operation, but a deployment of a few days. Those destroyers would remain there in the Caribbean Sea, supporting operations against terrorist organizations and cartels of drug trafficking for several months. Juan Camilo, thank you. And as we saw in this report,

this is the largest shipment of US troops to Latin America in three decades. Maria Teresa Haya, international analyst for Caracol News, tells us more about what is underway. Teresita, what is it about?

Good afternoon. The tension between President Trump and Maduro is growing, but this is not a surprise. Let's remember that from day one in the White House, of of the United States and therefore can be fought with the army, not only the police or the border police to seize drugs, the army. Then he put a price on the head of Maduro, 50 million dollars, much more than Osama Bin Laden, who was also a terrorist enemy those who do most of us fear more. Authorized and all the new that will pass federal is illegal.

So it's also news. Seen on this is still be still one of Congress. I'll come back to you. I'll get used to standing control as a good enough to not

this. Also news. Yes, I'm not yet. I'm still says I'll just be a in the next few days and will arrive in 36 hours. Among these are the warships, three warships of the Aegis class. These are ships that each have about 96 short and medium-range missiles, in addition to 4,000 soldiers in each of them.

They are basically a mobile portable missile launch platform that will be stationed in the Caribbean in international waters in front of Venezuela. Here we see one of them, the USS Gravely, one of those that will be in the Caribbean in action in Yemen in recent months.

Here, we must say that the missiles that these destroyers carry are very precise missiles. If in the past we talked about kilometers of distance between where the missile and the target fall, today those who carry these ships fall to meters away from the target. They are very, very lethal and very precise. Now, they don't go alone.

They are also accompanied by reconnaissance aircraft, large aircraft, the 8 Poseidon are large, and several Venom-class helicopters that serve to transport equipment and troops as well. And most importantly, they are accompanied by the Iwo Jima amphibious deployment group. These are large ships that carry 4,500 troops, including the Marines and special troops, which then become mobile platforms,

mobile naval bases that the United States has. Here we see the same Iwo Jima in action, also in Yemen a few months ago. And amphibious means that they are able to deploy troops on land very quickly with small boats, tanks, everything they need for a land attack and also to operate from the sea. We see that he has sent a forceful message to President Maduro in Venezuela, whom President Trump calls not only dictator but also a drug dealer, making him the enemy of the national security of the United States.

Teresita. The deployment of troops, of course, has Venezuela on alert. The regime of Nicolás Maduro also activated its forces and qualified the actions of the United States as fraud. Beatriz Adrián, what was Nicolás Maduro's reaction?

Good afternoon, Margarita. It didn't take long for the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, to react. He says he is not a coward and gave the order to activate the civic, military and police forces gathered in the Bolivarian National Militia. This was the order given by the Venezuelan president.

More than 4.5 million militiamen, Amelias... ...from all over the national territory. Militias prepared, activated and armed.

The Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López... ...has also reacted to this deployment of three ships from the United States with more than 4,500 sailors on board. He asks why this is happening in the Caribbean Sea and not in the Pacific Ocean.

Yesterday they said they were going to make a deployment in the Caribbean Sea to fight the cartels. I ask the United States, Domingo Hernández Lárez, and what happened? They are not going to deploy anything in the Pacific, where almost 90% of the drugs are exported to the United States. So the problem is the Caribbean. The issue is Venezuela. The cartels are in Venezuela.

The coca crops are in Venezuela. I ask, the problem is a narrative that wants to be imposed to attack Venezuela.

General Vladimir Padrino López assures that international regulations are not being respected General Vladimir Padrino López assures that international regulations are not being respected and that they will be vigilant to keep the Venezuelan territory defended.