"The US Navy currently has two Aegis guided-missile destroyers the USS Gravely and the USS Jason Dunham in the Caribbean, along with the destroyer USS Sampson and the cruiser USS Lake Erie in the waters off Latin America. The news agency Associated Press has reported that those forces could expand further in the coming days, with the inclusion of amphibious assault ships with 4,000 sailors and US Marines. The US, for its part, has not announced plans to deploy any personnel to Venezuelan soil."
"They are seeking a regime change through military threat, Maduro told journalists. Venezuela is confronting the biggest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years. Maduro has raised alarm over a US naval buildup in the region, ostensibly for the purpose of combating drug trafficking, that has caused speculation about possible military interference against Venezuela."
The United States has positioned naval and other forces in the Caribbean ostensibly to combat drug trafficking. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro asserts that the deployment aims to overthrow his government and labels it the greatest continental threat in a century. Maduro has mobilized troops along national borders and urged citizens to join militias. US naval assets in the region include Aegis guided-missile destroyers and cruisers, and reports suggest amphibious assault ships with thousands of sailors and Marines could join. The US has not announced plans to deploy forces to Venezuelan soil. The US administration has accused Maduro of drug-trafficking ties and offered a $50 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
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