Venezuela boosts troop deployment in response to US threats

from RT

Venezuela is set to boost its military deployments in coastal and border states amid heightened tensions with the US. The move comes after Washington dispatched several warships to the Southern Caribbean last month in what it describes as an operation against drug cartels.

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez announced on Sunday that President Nicolas Maduro had ordered the deployment of “all available” troops and equipment to the states of Zulia, Falcon, Nueva Esparta, Sucre, and Delta Amacuro. He added that Caracas will increase troop deployments from around 10,000 to 25,000, noting that the area constitutes a “drug trafficking route.”

“No one is going to step on this land and do what we’re supposed to do,” Padrino said in a video uploaded to social media.

Last month, Venezuela also mobilized 15,000 troops to its border with Colombia...

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