The confrontation between the governments of the United States and Venezuela grows both in accusations and in the mobilization of resources, personnel, and military ships, and forces the countries of Latin America to gradually take a position regarding the tension between two of the central actors in the region.

Through Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Trump Administration highlighted on Tuesday the support it has received in recent days from several Latin American countries against the Cartel of the Suns, an alleged drug trafficking group that, according to Washington, is led by the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, but which Caracas claims does not exist.