Last week, af­ter close to three months in the Caribbean, the nu­clear-pow­ered air­craft car­ri­er USS Ger­ald R Ford left the re­gion.

The Ger­ald R Ford, the largest war­ship ever built, has been in the Caribbean since No­vem­ber 16 as part of a buildup of mil­i­tary might to fight nar­co traf­fick­ing in the re­gion.

As part of the mil­i­tary ar­se­nal of the US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion- called Op­er­a­tion South­ern Spear- the Ger­ald R Ford was in­te­gral in the cap­ture of Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicholas Maduro and his wife on Jan­u­ary 3 by the US mil­i­tary.