Two US Fighter Jets Entered the Gulf of Venezuela Tuesday
The presence of this attack group is part of the offensive ordered by the US government to put pressure on “criminal networks operating in the hemisphere”.
Two F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets entered Venezuelan airspace on Tuesday, north of the oil-rich state of Zulia, international media reported. The aircraft’s trajectory was tracked in real time using the FlightRadar24 digital platform, where they were observed approaching Lake Maracaibo from inside the Gulf of Venezuela. These aeronautical maneuvers increase tension in a region where US military activity has intensified in recent days, focusing international attention on Venezuela’s northern border.
Last Sunday, international monitoring systems also reported the passage of two US F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets near Venezuelan territory, according to information published by FlightRadar24. The aircraft, with the call signs “RHINO11” and “RHINO12,” flew over the area adjacent to Curaçao and the maritime zone off the coast of Falcón state. This deployment coincided with the repositioning of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald
Trump Warns Maduro That his ‘Days are Numbered’ in Venezuela
US President Donald Trump has once again escalated his rhetoric regarding Venezuela, warning his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro, that his “days are numbered” and reiterating that attacks against alleged drug traffickers in Caribbean waters will ‘soon’ be carried out on land as well.
“His days are numbered,” Trump said when pressed in an interview with Politico about what he would be willing to do to remove the Venezuelan president from power. He also refused to answer whether Washington would ultimately invade Venezuela to carry out these plans, citing the newspaper’s alleged hostility in its coverage of him. “I don’t want to talk to you about military strategy,” he snapped.
Trump took the opportunity to praise the “prosperous” part of Venezuelan immigration, those who voted for him in large numbers, he emphasized, not without first accusing Maduro of having sent others, mainly “prisoners” and people admitted “to psychiatric institutions”, to the United States with the approval of former President Joe Biden.
“He sent us millions of people, many from prisons, many drug traffickers, drug lords, from psychiatric institutions. He sent them to our country, where we had a very stupid president. Biden has a low IQ, especially now,” he said, insulting his predecessor. Trump also praised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for the attacks on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific, claiming that they are saving the lives of an average of 25,000 Americans.
According to the US president, “on average,” each of those vessels kills 25,000 Americans, and while he has stated that he doesn’t like having to resort to bombing them, the numbers, he emphasized, prove him right. “The amount of drugs coming in by sea has been reduced by 92 percent, and I’m trying to find out who those eight percent are,” he noted.
“Nobody wants to bring drug-laden ships to the United States anymore,” boasted Trump, who assured that he would take similar measures against drug cartels in Mexico or Colombia, after being told during the interview that much of the drug that arrives in the United States comes from those two countries and not from Venezuela. On the other hand, he downplayed the pardon granted to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was accused of drug trafficking, and dismissed the possibility that it could have sent the wrong message to drug traffickers.
“I don’t know him, I know very little about him,” Trump acknowledged, also admitting that he granted the pardon based on theories that Hernandez was the victim of a setup by former presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. “He was the president of the country, a country that traffics drugs, as you could probably say of every country, and for being president, he was given 45 years in prison. There are many people fighting for Honduras, very good people that I know. And they believe he was treated terribly, and they asked me to do this,” he said.
