3 day agoThe Trump administration has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. If President Trump decides to move forward with airstrikes, they said, the targets would send a clear message to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro that it is time to step down: WSJ
4 day agoUS launches new attack against "narco-boat" in the Eastern Pacific: four "narco-militants" confirmed dead after bombing
4 day agoMaduro asks the Supreme Court to revoke the citizenship of all "traitorous agents who join a foreign army" to invade Venezuela. "I did it the easy way."
Russian plane linked to arms and mercenary transport completes Caracas-Havana-Managua route
1 week agoThe B-1's appear to have proceeded on a show of force mission, skirting the coast of Venezuela off Caracas
Putin signed a law ratifying the strategic partnership agreement with Venezuela.
Maduro accuses the United States of exerting power over Venezuela: "We are threatened by psychological warfare."
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and her Carrier Strike Group, consisting of the Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers; USS Mahan (DDG-72), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81), and USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), have been redirected from the Mediterranean Sea to the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Area-of-Responsibility near Venezuela. The Ford will join the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and several other air and naval assets already deployed to the Southern Caribbean and Puerto Rico
1 week agoA U.S. strike against a drug vessel killed six suspected "narco-militants" in the Caribbean, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said
1 week agoMaduro to Trump in English: Not war, not war. Yes peace, yes peace. No crazy war, please, please, please
Secretary of War Peter Hegseth on drug cartels: "They are ISIS, they are the al-Qaeda of our hemisphere. My message to these networks: We will hunt you down, we will eliminate you, we will seek you out."
The U.S. flew B-1 bombers near Venezuela on Thursday, stepping up pressure on President Maduro only days after other American warplanes carried out an "attack demonstration." More missions could come soon
1 week agoTrump confirms more than 3,000 criminal arrests, including members of the New Generation, MS-13, and Tren de Aragua organizations. "Since January 20, we have arrested more than 120,000 criminals."
1 week agoTrump: "The cartels are waging war on America, and just as I promised in the campaign, we are waging war on them”
Trump: "The cartels are the ISIS of the western hemisphere"
Venezuela's defense minister vows to thwart any CIA operation against his country.
1 week agoVladimir Padrino López: "We know the CIA is present in Venezuela."
1 week agoTwo U.S. B-1B Lancer bombers flew a Caribbean patrol today, entering Venezuela’s ADIZ and nearing within 80 km of the coast, briefly switching off transponders in what appeared to be a strike simulation. The mission follows earlier B-52 and F-35 flights near Venezuela this month
1 week agoThe White House evades answering whether it will "seek regime change" in Venezuela: "I'm not going to get ahead of the president (Trump)." "What we've made clear is that this administration will not tolerate international narcoterrorism to bring drugs into the US."
The White House says an announcement on drug cartels will be made at 3:00 p.m. ET, per the White House pool
US Secretary of Defense: The raid was carried out in international waters, killing two drug-smuggling militants. None of our soldiers were injured.
Delcy Rodríguez accuses Marco Rubio of promising Venezuelan gas to Trinidad and Tobago: "They have to pay for it. Anything else is unnatural."
According to an advisor to the Prime Minister of a U.S.-ally nation and one diplomatic source, “allied countries” have been briefed about a possible upcoming escalation in the Caribbean
1 week agoMaduro: "Colombia knows we are one, Siamese twins, and whatever happens with Colombia is with Venezuela, and whatever happens with Venezuela is with Colombia, as a Colombian military officer wrote to me two weeks ago: if you touch Venezuela, you touch Colombia, we are one homeland, and we don't say that just for the sake of it. I know what I'm saying."
2 week agoMaría Corina Machado spoke with Rodrigo Paz, president-elect of Bolivia, and says that Venezuela is counting on him to free itself from Maduro's tyranny.
Petro advocates for "letting democracy express itself" in Venezuela: "Maduro and María Corina still have the option of paving the way."
2 week agoThe U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago has issued an alert to U.S. citizens on the island, urging them to stay away from U.S. government facilities throughout the weekend.
2 week agoDonald Trump shares video of the bombing of the drug-laden submarine
2 week agoVenezuela is moving troops into position and mobilizing what President Maduro asserts is a 'millions-strong militia' amid the biggest US military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1980s, according to the WSJ
María Corina Machado defends U.S. actions against drug trafficking and urges Latin American leaders to demand Maduro's departure.
