Khaberni - An American warship equipped with missiles docked in Trinidad and Tobago, today, Sunday, just about ten kilometers away from the coast of Venezuela, according to reporters from the French news agency, amid pressures by US President Donald Trump on his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro.
The American warship could be seen off the coast of Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago, a dual-island nation off the coast of Venezuela.
This comes after authorities in this small country, which has a population of 1.4 million, announced on Thursday the imminent arrival of the warship "USS Gravely" and a unit of marines, to conduct training with its forces.
The westernmost point of Trinidad and Tobago is only tens of kilometers away from the Venezuelan coast.
This coincides with the deployment of seven US warships in the Caribbean Sea and one in the Gulf of Mexico, as part of an operation against drug trafficking targeting particularly Venezuela.
Washington stated that it conducted ten strikes on boats in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea in the past weeks, suspected of drug smuggling, resulting in the deaths of at least 43 people.
For his part, Maduro accuses Washington of using the drug trafficking fight as a pretext "to enforce a change in governance" and to take control of Venezuela's large oil reserves.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar currently heads the government of Trinidad and Tobago, she is a supporter of Trump, and since taking power in May, her rhetoric has been hostile towards Venezuelan migrants and what she called "Venezuelan crime" in her country.
