New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- Venezuela's Maduro warned US President Donald Trump to avoid escalating tensions in the Caribbean, pleading in English, "No crazy war, please please please," after Washington ordered its most advanced aircraft carrier to the region. The deployment marks a major escalation in the Trump administration's expanding military campaign against drug cartels in Latin America.

'Not war, not war, not war, peace forever', the Venezuelan president was seen saying in an official video.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, which can carry up to 90 aircraft, to move from the Mediterranean on Friday.

The Pentagon confirmed that the USS Gerald R. Ford-a nuclear-powered supercarrier capable ...