Source: CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs
“Earlier this summer, the Trump regime upped Washington’s reward for the arrest of Maduro to fifty million dollars. It’s as if Washington thinks the world is the OK Corral and Wyatt Earp is packing heat-guided missiles. More recently, the Pentagon announced it will be deploying 4500 sailors, Marines, and other forces in the Caribbean, not far from Venezuela’s coast. In response, the Venezuelan government has mobilized its 4.5 million-member citizen militia. The rationale provided by the Trump administration is that these forces will be stationed there as part of its war on drugs and conduct illegal and essentially pointless attacks on the operations of certain drug cartels in Mexico and certain Central American countries. However, anyone familiar with the region’s map (a likely small number of US residents) can’t help but share Venezuela’s concern that the US has other intentions in the area, as well.” (08/25/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/25/the-war-on-drugs-as-imperial-war/