As Trump boosts maritime force near Venezuela, President Maduro warns US; all you need to know about US warships deployed in South America

The United States increased the sea power outside Venezuelan to deal with threats from Latin American drug cartels with the arrival of more ships next week. However, the US government has not provided any signal regarding a planned land attack from thousands of personnel deployed, as reported by the news agency EP.

Reacting to development, Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro warned Washington that his country could not be invaded on August 28, 2025. Maduro took action for a siege by the United States, a nuclear -powered submarine and 4,500 soldiers, who only strengthened the government and quoted by Newsweek, “There is no way to enter Venezuela”.

Maduro’s reaction pursued the US movement to increase the US military presence in the South Caribbean. The distribution created rumors and allegations about a threat of invasion from social media and state television. According to the EP, the government first benefited from speculation by addressing the diminishing base to participate in a surrounded militia. On the other hand, the opposition described Washington’s actions as a sign of President Nicolás Maduro’s approach to an end.

Which weapons and warships deployed us?

The US Navy currently has two AEGİS guided missile resuys, USS Gravely and USS Jason Dunham and the AP in the Caribbean and the AP, the USS SAMPSON in the Pacific Ocean in Latin America and the Cruiser USS Lake Eri’nin referring to a defense official.

According to the official, the military asset will witness an expansion. Three amphibious attack ships, a force covering more than 4,000 sailors and sailors, will enter the waters in Latin America until next week. Pentagon officials refused to tell us exactly where the USS IWO Jima, USS San Antonio and USS Fort Lauderdale went.

What is the purpose of US distribution?

According to AP, the name of the journalists. Daryl Caudle said he went to the waters in South America to support US ships’ venezuela operations and mission ”. Speaking at a navy base in Norfolk, Virginia on Thursday, August 28, 2025, Caudle said that some Venezueli people participated in major drug operations. However, he refused to give special details about the targets of the army and said that most of the information was classified.
Caudle said that his job was to provide navy for the deployment of military commanders, which gave the “president and defense secretary”. The distribution comes as he pushes the president Donald Trump to use the army to prevent the cartels accused of Fentanil and other illegal drugs for the flow of American communities and to use it to maintain violence in some US cities.
Trump, Venezuela’s train de Aragua, El Salvador, and six groups in Mexico, identified as foreign terrorist organizations and pointed out the international connections and operations of groups involving drug trafficking, immigration smuggling and violence to expand their territory.

How did the Maduro government react to deploying?

Previously, a state television presenter Maduro’ya “about a maritime fleet that ends these siren songs”, the President said that more than 90% of the Venezuelians rejected “announcements and threats from the US government,” as quoted. Maduro said during the weekly television show, “We, Venezuelalılar are in our own laws and nobody touches this land.

Maduro refuses to accept US charges of drug trafficking

Maduro also refused to charges drug trafficking from Washington. Unlike neighboring Colombia, the AP insisted that Venezuela did not contain coca leaf plants and cocaine production ”. He also claimed that drug crimes were the White House’s charges. Maduro said, iler They changed the narrative and they no longer blame what they want to destroy being communist. That was their accusation during the Soviet Union, ”Maduro said.

“They no longer blame them of being a terrorist… (similar) When they accuse Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya of being a terrorist.