President Donald Trump said the US military sank a third drug-running boat from Venezuela, urging Nicolas Maduro to "stop sending Tren de Aragua into the United States, stop sending drugs" and "stop sending people from your prisons."
The five US F-35 jets arrived on Saturday at the former Roosevelt Roads base in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, as part of a deployment ordered by US President Donald Trump to strengthen operations against drug trafficking in the Caribbean, Euro News noted.
The Defence Department warned Venezuela in a statement late on Thursday to cease further provocative moves, describing the Venezuelan aircraft buzzing over the US vessel - reported to be the guided-missile destroyer Jason Dunham - as an attempt "to interfere with our counter-narco-terror
Trump said 11 people were killed in the strike conducted in "international waters." Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the "lethal strike" as taking place in the "southern Caribbean" targeting "a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela."
Venezuelan Minister of the Popular Power for Interior Diosdado Cabello announced on Monday that Caracas would deploy 15,000 troops to bolster security in Zulia and Tachira states, which border Colombia.
During the closing ceremony of the 'First Pedagogical Congress of Bolivarian Teachers', Maduro interrupted his remarks on education to show off a new smartphone that he said was personally gifted to him by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced plans to mobilise 4.5 million militia fighters after the US raised a reward for his arrest and expanded anti-drug operations in the Caribbean. He denounced Washington's "outlandish threats" and vowed to arm militias, while Mexico rejected US clai
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked Venezuelan President Nayib Bukele for helping secure an agreement for the release of all of our American detainees.
The US Justice Department filed an appeal in the top court after a San Francisco-based federal district judge put the efforts on hold, finding they "appear predicated on negative stereotypes."
America's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is terminating the parole programs for "inadmissible aliens" from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, which were announced in 2022 and 2023, according to a statement by the DHS.