The deployment of U.S. military forces, mainly marines, accompanied by warships, aircraft and a nuclear submarine, has generated concern in Latin America and the world.
The forces are located very close to the Venezuelan territorial sea border. This move, presented as a measure to "combat drug trafficking", allows the U.S. to establish control of maritime and air traffic over the southeastern arc of the Caribbean Sea.
The Venezuelan government denounced the operation as a direct threat to its sovereignty, strongly rejecting it and preparing to confront it.
"We defend our seas, our skies and our lands, we liberate them, we watch over them and we patrol them, no empire is going to come to touch Venezuela's sacred soil", asserted President Nicolás Maduro, in a working meeting with governors and mayors of the Great Simon Bolivar Patriotic Pole.
Let's remember that in 2020, the Trump administration accused the Venezuelan head of state of drug trafficking, and in a display of entelechy, invented a Cartel of the Suns, in the style of the worst narco soap operas.
Those interventionist plans, in which the current U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, played a prominent role, ended in a resounding failure. Apparently, now they want to repeat the fiasco.
This is not to be taken lightly, although the current threat is part of the psychological warfare: the hegemon feels challenged by powers that propose a new world order, multipolar and in solidarity. This way of seeing the world is alien to the hegemon and is seen as a threat.
Given the strength of the Brics in the economic order, especially the alliance of China, Russia and India, with guaranteed energy resources, the U.S. perceives the possession of Venezuela as vital for its survival as an empire.
