US Moves Additional Troops and Special Operations Aircraft to the Caribbean as It Escalates Against Venezuela

By Dave DeCamp 

The US has moved a number of special operations aircraft and multiple cargo planes carrying troops to the Caribbean this week, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, as the Trump administration continues to escalate against Venezuela.

The report, citing US officials and flight-tracking data, said at least 10 CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft assigned to special operations forces flew into the region Monday night from Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico. C-17 cargo planes from Fort Stewart in Georgia and Fort Campbell, which is located on the Tennessee-Kentucky border, also arrived in Puerto Rico.

The latest deployments come as the US has begun enforcing a blockade on Venezuela that so far has involved the seizure of two tankers carrying Venezuelan oil, a major escalation in the US’s effort to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro…

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