“With the arrival of the Gerald Ford Carrier Battle Group in the Caribbean last week, the public report about the briefing of President Trump on military options, and the President’s statement that he had “decided” on the course of action he plans to take, and the new State Department designation of Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (following a similar designation by the U.S. Treasury Department on July 25), the U.S. seems on the course of decisive military action in the Caribbean…until the President indicated that he is open to talking again to Venezuelan Dictator Nicholas Maduro.”