Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega said Tuesday that the deployment of US warships to the Caribbean is not about the "charade" of a drug war, but an attempt to "overthrow governments."

The United States has said the deployment of warships to the southern Caribbean, near Venezuela's territorial waters, was an anti-drug trafficking operation.

The move drew the ire of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who called the operation a "threat" to his country.

Ortega accused the Trump administration in a speech on Tuesday of deploying warships "to intimidate Latin American governments", adding "they do it to intimidate people and to try to overthrow governments."

Trump celebrated on Tuesday the killing of 11 so-called "narcoterrorists" in a US naval strike on a small speed boat, claiming in a

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