The U.S. Navy’s Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group sails towards the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean on November 13.

The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier group steamed into the Caribbean earlier this month in a show of force, reasserting U.S. dominance in its own backyard.

The aircraft carrier’s arrival was an obvious escalation of the American military activity in the region over the past few months. Since early September, the Pentagon has reportedly carried out 21 strikes off the coast of South America and the eastern Pacific against small boats suspected of carrying drugs, killing at least 83 people.

U.S. President Donald Trump has mused about regime change in Venezuela, the revolutionary socialist country where economic collapse during the 2010s has prompted the migration of

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