During the afternoon of this Thursday, May 21, the United States Southern Command, responsible for security in Latin Americaannounced the deployment of the Attack Group of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz at sea Caribbeanamid the tightening of US President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign trump against Cuba.
“Welcome to the Caribbean Sea, Nimitz Aircraft Carrier Strike Group!” wrote in X the United States Southern Command, in charge of the operations in Latin Americaafter highlighting the operational capacity and strategic role of the US Navy in a region that fear an armed conflict between Cuba and the US
“The USS Nimitz, the Embarked Air Wing, the USS Gridley and the USNS Patuxent T-AO 201 constitute the maximum expression of readiness and presence, with a scope, lethality and strategic advantage unmatched“added the Southern Command, after remembering that the aircraft carrier nuclear propulsion and his group have operated almost all over the world.
Therefore, according to the American television network Univisionthe advertisement matches the hardening of the messages of USA toward Cubawith whose representatives the oil blockadeand with the accusation brought against the former Cuban president Raul Castro for the deaths of four airmen in 1996.
Trump denies that he plans to intimidate the Cuban government
Given this situation, the president of the United States, donald trumpdenied that it sent the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz to the Caribbean Sea to intimidate to the Government of Cuba and reiterated its willingness to dialogue with the authorities of Havanain the midst of the pressure campaign of Washington D.C. on the island.
Faced with this scenario, the Republican president was consulted in the Oval Office of the White House on whether the arrival of the USS Nimitz strike group in Caribbean waters, announced by the US Army, was intended to intimidate the cuban leadershipso President Donald Trump responded: “No, not at all.”
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“Cuba is a failed country that does not have electricity, does not have money and it doesn’t have meal. I promise that the US will reach out to them. Let’s go help them. I want to do it for humanitarian reasons. But, in addition, we have the population Cuban-Americanmuch of which resides in Florida and it is a magnificent group of people,” he said.
However, according to the EFE news agency, President Donald Trump has increased pressure about the government of the Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel in search of political and economic change on the island, which is why the New York magnate insisted that the cuban exile He wants to “go back and help his entire country.”
USA and its aircraft carriers
In December 2025, the United States Army sent another aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean Sea, where he ended up supporting the operation to capture the former Venezuelan president in early January. Nicolas Maduro before heading to the Middle East, where he participated in the operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
For its part, in February 2025, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz supported for more than four months the operation Midnight Hammerthrough which the United States and Israel bombed key facilities of the Iranian nuclear program although he also participated in operations against positions of the Islamic State in waters somalis.