Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says his government is deploying 4.5 million soldiers across the country after the United States said it would be shipping more than 4,000 Marines and materiel to the Caribbean region. This comes after the Trump administration secretly signed a directive approving the Pentagon’s use of military force — supposedly to target Latin American drug cartels. The Trump administration has accused Maduro of being the leader of the Cártel de los Soles, offering up to a $50 million reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest, which critics have slammed as another attempt by the United States to destabilize Venezuela and other countries that oppose U.S. policy.