A US aircraft carrier and its escort warships have entered the southern Caribbean Sea on Wednesday and will remain in the region for at least a few days as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to pressure the Cuban government, according to the military’s southern command and a US official. Right now, the administration intends to use the USS Nimitz, and its wing of fighter jets, as a show of force, not as a platform for major military operations, as the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford did during the commando raid to seize president Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela in…
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