U.S. Navy group, a
threat in the waters
of the Caribbean
PORT-OF-SPAIN, April 17 .– The combat group of
aircraft carriers led by the USS George
Washington, which is engaged in maneuvers in the
Caribbean Sea, is soon to arrive – with its veiled
messages of war and threats – in the ports of
Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago,
Aruba, Curacao and St. Kitts and Nevis.
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The
aircraft carrier George Washington navigating
in the Caribbean in a show of force. |
A communiqué from the Southern Command quoted by
the Newsday daily in Trinidad and Tobago,
specifies that the U.S. Navy’s so-called Partnership
of the Americas operation planned for the months of
April and May has had military intervention in the
region attributed as its purpose, Prensa Latina
reported.
The newspaper says the nuclear-powered George
Washington and the ships accompanying it exited U.S.
waters last Friday the 14th with the mission of
demonstrating U.S. military power in the region.
For almost two months, the U.S. military will be
"training" their regional allies in the war on drugs
and human trafficking, according to the military
communiqué quoted by Newsday.
The combat group includes the USS Monterey
cruiser, the Stout destroyer, and the
Underwood frigate, which are carrying 6,500 U.S.
Navy officers and sailors.
These types of maneuvers are nothing new; similar
ones were carried out in October 1983, when ships
from the Seventh Fleet heading for the Mediterranean
Sea were diverted to carry out the invasion of
Grenada, an operation that Washington rehearsed
beforehand with air and sea training on the small
Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
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