Caribbean

Trump Signals Possible Land Operations in Venezuela; Two Trinidad Nationals Killed in U.S. Strike; Pentagon Seeks Radar Station in Grenada

Recent pronouncements by President Donald Trump have signaled the possibility of escalating military operations in the southern Caribbean. On the same day that high-ranking officers of the United States Navy visited Grenada for talks about establishing a radar station on the island, the president confirmed that he had authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela. According to President Trump, he did so for two reasons. “Number one, they have emptied their prisons into the United States of America,” he said during an Oval Office event on Wednesday. “The other thing…we have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela, and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea.” President Trump said the administration was “looking at land” as the next phase of its anti-narcotics campaign in the southern Caribbean. “We are certainly looking at land now because we’ve got the sea very well under control,” he said. “We’ve had a couple of days where th...