‘Each motive’ to anticipate assaults inside Venezuela, knowledgeable warns as US escalates operations

The Pentagon has deployed an plane service strike group to counter what it claims are drug-trafficking organisations in Latin America, escalating a army build-up that has fuelled fears of battle. Earlier, the US focused boats in worldwide waters, killing these on board. Cynthia J. Arnson, Director of the Latin American Programme on the Wilson Centre, stated there may be “little or no proof” the vessels have been concerned in drug trafficking, calling the legality of the strikes questionable. She added that the operation seems to be “far past a counter–drug-trafficking operation” and warned: “There may be, I feel, each motive to imagine or anticipate that there will probably be assaults inside Venezuelan territory aimed toward deposing the present dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro.”