The confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has increased in recent weeks because Donald Trump accused Nicolás Maduro of being the head of the "Cartel de los Soles" , a group considered criminal and also terrorist by the US government. He also pointed out several Venezuelan government officials as involved, including the Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello , whom the Yankee government accuses of facilitating drug trafficking and money laundering for other criminal structures.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt stated: “The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government of Venezuela. It's a drug cartel, in this administration's view. Maduro is not a legitimate president: he's a fugitive leader of this cartel, accused in the U.S. of trafficking drugs into the country,” La Tercera reported.

The Trump administration has added the Cartel of the Suns to its list of "terrorist organizations," giving it more tools to combat it.

In just one month, Washington announced that it was “raising the reward offered to anyone who can 'provide information to find Nicolás Maduro' , raising the amount offered to 50 million dollars,” La Tercera highlighted, reporting on “the dispatch of ships to the Caribbean Sea, in an 'anti-drug' operation that has placed three destroyer ships off the Venezuelan coast.”

Some media outlets claimed that the agents on the boats would be prepared for an "amphibious" operation, echoing what Reuters had reported, which "has played a significant role in fostering an atmosphere of psychological and communication tension, based on the supposed imminent nature of a U.S. military operation on Venezuelan territory," as teleSUR reported.

Reuters reported on August 19 that the U.S. destroyers USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson would be in waters near Venezuela within the next 36 hours , for potential targeted attacks and to respond to the threat posed by drug cartels . The operation would include 4,000 sailors and marines, spy planes, warships, and at least one attack submarine.

According to verification work conducted by Venezuelan media outlet La Tabla, the USS Sampson was in the eastern Pacific. The USS Gravely was operating in the Gulf of Mexico, while the USS Jason Dunham had been inoperative for over a month at the Mayport Naval Base in Florida.

“This omission, incomprehensible for an agency the size of Reuters, can only be explained by the purposes of the publication and the interests it served. Although it soon became clear that the deployment of those three ships was unrealistic, the ‘revelation’ intensified the situation and enabled an escalation of discourse from Washington, represented by Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary ,” teleSUR reported, adding: “The damage was already done: shock in public opinion and a rise in the tone of certain US political actors.”

Then, on August 20, Reuters broke another "revelation," announcing a new deployment, this time of the amphibious ships USS San Antonio , USS Iowa Jima, and USS Fort Lauderdale , carrying more than 4,000 troops and over 2,000 marines. The news sparked a significant increase in the climate of instability, uncertainty, and concern. However, it was later confirmed that the Iwo Jima had returned to its Norfolk base to avoid Hurricane Erin.

Once again, the British news agency has been exposed with a false and politically motivated story aimed at creating chaos and instability in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and throughout the region.

Sources:

The Third

teleSUR

The Table