Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the United States of “fabricating a war” in the hours after the Trump administration announced the deployment of a carrier group to the Caribbean.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group to deploy to the U.S. Southern Command area of operations to “bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that threaten America’s security and prosperity,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on social media.
“They are fabricating a new eternal war,” Maduro told state media. “They promised they would never again get involved in a war, and they are fabricating a war.”
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