The prospect of U.S. military action against Venezuela and the regime of Nicolas Maduro is growing by the day, with U.S. President Donald Trump threatening this week to begin land operations in the Latin American country “very soon.”

The Trump administration has accused Maduro of leading a “narco-terrorist” state that facilitates drug trafficking into the U.S. and Europe, and of flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants.

The U.S. has raised pressure on Venezuela by moving an armada of aircraft carriers and other warships to the region, along with thousands of troops. The military has also conducted more than 20 strikes on vessels suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which the administration has said are being run by drug cartels — some of them in collusion w

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