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Military deployment to Caribbean isn’t about drugs, it’s about Venezuela

By Tom Rogan
Published April 2, 2020 7:44pm ET
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Military deployment to Caribbean isn’t about drugs, it’s about Venezuela
Pedestrians walk past a mural featuring Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez. | (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

It’s not about drug interdiction, it’s about intimidating Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.

That’s the top line to the new U.S. military deployment to interdict drug smugglers in the Caribbean. Announced by President Trump on Wednesday, the plan will double the U.S. military assets in the American part of the Southern Hemisphere.

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