The firepower around Venezuela has dramatically increased.
The Pentagon announced today (24) that it is sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the waters off Latin America.
This move is will dramatically increase the number of service members and ships dedicated to Trump’s war on drug cartels.
Trump sends Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to waters off Venezuela
Now part of US Southern Command
Another major show of force in the Caribbean pic.twitter.com/8rhvOJxMwt
— RT (@RT_com) October 24, 2025
Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell:
STATEMENT:
In support of the President’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and counter narco-terrorism in defense of the Homeland, the Secretary of War has directed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and embarked carrier air wing to the U.S.…
— Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW) October 24, 2025
“STATEMENT: In support of the President’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and counter narco-terrorism in defense of the Homeland, the Secretary of War has directed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and embarked carrier air wing to the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR).
The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere. These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs.”
CBS News reported:
“The USS Gerald R. Ford is the Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, having been commissioned into service in 2017. At more than 1,100 ft. long with a displacement of 100,000 long tons, the carrier is the largest in the world. It’s powered by two nuclear reactors and can reach a top speed of 34.5 mph, according to the Navy.
The carrier group will join eight U.S. vessels that are already in the region, including three destroyers, one cruiser, a littoral combat ship, an amphibious assault ship and two transport ships. As of early October, the Ford was deployed in the Mediterranean Sea.
News of the decision to send the carrier group to Latin America comes after the U.S. launched another strike on a vessel allegedly operated by the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua that Hegseth said was trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea.”
This is the USS GERALD R. FORD Carrier Strike Group https://t.co/SZCoz0fZPD pic.twitter.com/lzDGqXkoP6
— RT (@RT_com) October 24, 2025
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and her Carrier Strike Group, consisting of the Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers; USS Mahan (DDG-72), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81), and USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), have been… pic.twitter.com/qaXs5l8JVb
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 24, 2025
Watch: U.S. Army Osprey aircraft and helicopters taking off en masse from Puerto Rico Air Base.
| ÚLTIMA HORA: Varios aviones Osprey y helicópteros del ejército de Estados Unidos fueron vistos ayer despegando de manera masiva en la base aérea de Puerto Rico , en una señal de que el gobierno de Donald Trump escalará la guerra pronto, contra el Cartel de los Soles. pic.twitter.com/NLtkC1K9vc
— Eduardo Menoni (@eduardomenoni) October 24, 2025
In the meantime, Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro changed yesterday’s bravado for a rather pathetic appeal in broken English, trying to reach to Trump.
Venezuela’s Maduro switches to ENGLISH to warn Trump
‘No CRAZY war, please please please’
‘Not war, not war, not war’
‘PEACE FOREVER’ https://t.co/SZCoz0fZPD pic.twitter.com/ezs5omqHlm
— RT (@RT_com) October 24, 2025
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