Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) for­eign min­is­ters are urg­ing the Unit­ed States to pro­vide an as­sur­ance that any mil­i­tary ac­tion aimed at Venezuela will not threat­en re­gion­al sta­bil­i­ty or oc­cur with­out pri­or con­sul­ta­tion and warn­ing.

Last week, the Unit­ed States or­dered an am­phibi­ous squadron to the south­ern Caribbean as part of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s ef­fort to ad­dress threats from Latin Amer­i­can drug car­tels.

A nu­clear-pow­ered at­tack sub­ma­rine, ad­di­tion­al P8 Po­sei­don re­con­nais­sance air­craft, sev­er­al de­stroy­ers and a guid­ed-mis­sile cruis­er have al­so be­ing al­lo­cat­ed to US South­ern Com­mand as part of the mis­sion.