‘What the US really wants is regime change’: US military build-up in the Caribbean

The Pentagon on Friday ordered the deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group to counter drug-trafficking organisations in Latin America, marking a major escalation in a US military build-up that Venezuela’s leader warned was aimed at “fabricating a war”. Citing expert opinion, FRANCE 24’s Philip Turle said “what the US really wants is regime change,” adding that the key question now is whether Washington would launch attacks on Venezuelan soil.