Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A carrier strike group has arrived at an undisclosed location within the U.S. Southern Command's control amid tensions with Venezuela and drug cartels.
The USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and supporting vessels have deployed in waters in or near the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic Ocean after the Defense Department ordered the strike force there on Oct. 24, USNI News reported Tuesday.
The U.S. Navy's Fourth Fleet confirmed the carrier strike group's arrival in waters near Latin America, where the U.S. military has targeted and sunk numerous alleged drug-smuggling vessels in deadly drone strikes.
"These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle transnational criminal organizations," Defense Department spokesman Sean Parnell told the New York Post.
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