Source: Cailian
Financial Associated Press, October 25. According to Xinhua News Agency, Venezuelan President Maduro said on the 24th that the United States is "creating a new war" and Venezuela will try its best to prevent the war from happening. On the same day, Maduro made a speech on national television, saying that people in South America and the Caribbean do not want war, but all yearn for peace, prosperity and harmony. To achieve this goal, the people of the region need to mobilize. Earlier in the day, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Sean Parnell announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford strike group was being deployed to the area of responsibility of the U.S. Southern Command, that is, the waters surrounding Latin America. On the 23rd, Venezuela began to hold the "Independence 200 Plan" coastal defense exercise in many coastal places, organizing and coordinating local troops and people's forces, and protecting petrochemical, electric power, telecommunications facilities, docks and hospitals.