The U.S. military build-up in the southern Caribbean continues unabated. The arrival of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, heralded Washington’s largest military deployment in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama. Around 25% of all U.S. warships deployed globally are concentrated off the coast of Venezuela. U.S. President Donald Trump recently declared there will be strikes on land targets and that the airspace above Venezuela is closed. There are fears that the White House’s campaign, which…