AP Discovers US Warship 'Approaches' Venezuela, Not 'Approaches Every Coast'
Maduro's claim (AP, '2025-10-25T16:12:26Z') about the US 'fabricating a war' seems almost theatrical, yet the AP frames the USS Gerald R. Ford’s presence as if it's casually touring the Venezuelan coastline. What the mainstream media often forgets to mention is the USS Gerald R. Ford, like other US carrier strike groups, operates on a global scale. Its movements are less about 'approaching
Venezuela' as a unique threat, and more about maintaining a constant, often provocative, military presence in international waters, including the Caribbean as part of SOUTHCOM's area of responsibility. (For decades, US military presence and exercises near resource-rich nations in Central and South America have been a geopolitical constant, if not always a 'friendly visit'.) The accusation that
Trump labeled Maduro 'without providing evidence' as a gang leader (AP) conveniently sidesteps the US track record of destabilization campaigns, sanctions, and attempted regime changes in Latin America—remember Cuba, Nicaragua, Chile? (Hint: Bay of Pigs, Contra affair, 1973 coup). Accusing a leader of 'egging on an invasion' doesn't sound quite so paranoid when the world's largest warship is
indeed 'approaching' your region, a region the US has historically treated as its backyard. Perhaps the 'fabrication' isn't just Maduro's rhetoric, but the narrative that presents US military maneuvers as anything but projections of power.