Os USA declared the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and senior members of your government such as leaders of an international terrorist organizationlo Cartel of the Sunsnews this Monday the “The Country”.
The inclusion of the organization on the State Department’s list opens the door to new economic sanctions and offers “new tools” for potential military actions, admits Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense.
The Sun Cartel is, according to the US, a decentralized network of senior government officials and the Venezuelan armed forces which obtains part of its financing through drug trafficking. The classification allows Washington can justify, according to US law, military actions in Venezuelan territory.
Four senior North American officials indicated that a new phase of the operation, possibly involving secret missions and attacks on Venezuelan infrastructurecould begin in the next few days. This climb took international airlines to suspend flights to Venezuela.
Caracas reacts
Maduro – for whose capture the US offers a reward of 50 million dollars – and allies consider that the true objectives of the USA involve regime change in the countrysomething that Washington has not officially confirmed.