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News Topical, Digital Desk : US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the US military had launched a large-scale military attack on Venezuela, capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and deporting them from the country.
Following Trump's announcement, tensions between the two countries have reached a fever pitch. But the biggest question now is why did the US attack Venezuela? Let's find out...
In fact, the main reasons behind the US attack on Venezuela are said to be migration, drugs and "drug-related terrorism".
America wants to change power
US President Trump claims that Venezuela is a major transit route for cocaine and is also the cause of the fentanyl crisis in the US. Trump has designated two Venezuelan criminal gangs—the Tren de Aragua and the Cartel de los Soles—as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). Trump alleges that Maduro himself leads the Cartel de los Soles. Meanwhile, the Maduro administration says the US is using the war on drugs as a weapon to force regime change.
immigration crisis
Trump has repeatedly linked Venezuela to the influx of millions of migrants to the US southern border. Since 2013, nearly eight million Venezuelans have fled economic crisis and political repression and settled in the US, most of them in other parts of Latin America, without offering any evidence. Trump has accused Maduro of emptying his prisons and mental asylums and forcing inmates to migrate to the US, a claim Maduro denies.
According to President Trump, the US military conducted a brief but intense operation that captured Maduro and his wife and took them out of Venezuela. Trump said that US law enforcement agencies were involved in the operation. Regarding the attack, the Trump administration says Venezuela is engaged in an armed conflict with drug cartels.
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