{"id":2560,"date":"2025-09-04T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/why-is-the-us-military-building-up-its-presence-in-the-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:39:12","slug":"why-is-the-us-military-building-up-its-presence-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/why-is-the-us-military-building-up-its-presence-in-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the US military building up its presence in the Caribbean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration recently targeted a Venezuelan boat it said was carrying drugs.<\/p>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Tensions between the United States and Venezuela came to a head this week.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s after Washington took the unprecedented decision to bomb a boat near the Venezuelan coast.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/3\/trump-says-11-killed-in-strike-on-alleged-drug-carrying-boat-from-venezuela\">Trump says 11 killed in strike on alleged drug-carrying boat from Venezuela<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/3\/how-did-us-strike-on-venezuelan-boat-come-about-what-it-means\">How did US strike on Venezuelan boat come about? What it means<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/3\/will-happen-again-marco-rubio-hints-at-further-us-strikes-in-caribbean\">\u2018Will happen again\u2019: Rubio hints at more US strikes against drug smugglers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The administration of US President Donald Trump said the vessel was loaded with drugs and gang members \u2013 and posed a threat to the US.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela\u2019s president denies the charges and says his country is ready to defend itself. So, what\u2019s behind this action by the US?<\/p>\n<p>Is it about narcotics \u2026 or politics?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Cyril Vanier<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul Dobson \u2013 political analyst with Venezuelanalysis.com and an expert on US-Venezuela relations<\/p>\n<p>Javier Farje \u2013 Latin American affairs anaylst<\/p>\n<p>Marten Brienen \u2013 associate professor at Oklahoma State University and an expert on security, organised crime and drug trafficking<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration recently targeted a Venezuelan boat it said was carrying drugs. Tensions between the United States and Venezuela came to a head this week. That\u2019s after Washington took the unprecedented decision to bomb a boat near the Venezuelan coast. Recommended Stories list of 3 items list 1 of 3Trump says 11 killed in &#8230; <a title=\"Why is the US military building up its presence in the Caribbean?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/04\/why-is-the-us-military-building-up-its-presence-in-the-caribbean\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why is the US military building up its presence in the Caribbean?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}