Xinhua News Agency, Caracas, October 24 (Reporter Tian Rui) Venezuelan President Maduro said on the 24th that the United States is "creating a new war" and Venezuela will try its best to prevent it from happening.

Speaking on national television that day, Maduro said that the people of South America and the Caribbean do not want war, but desire peace, prosperity and harmony.

Earlier in the day, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Sean Parnell announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group was being deployed to the U.S. Southern Command's area of responsibility, the waters around 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.

Since September, the Trump administration has claimed to sink 10 so-called ¡°drug ships¡± and kill more than 40 ¡°drug traffickers¡± in the outer waters of Venezuela and the Eastern Pacific International waters, and the U.S. Drug Administration has in recent years that Venezuela is not the main source of U.S. drugs.