Venezuela

The Associated Press learned the identities of four men who were among the more than 60 people killed since the U.S. military began attacking boats that the Trump administration alleges were smuggling drugs.

A massive military buildup in the Caribbean has sparked speculation that the U.S. is now engaged in its latest chapter of direct intervention in Latin America.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The strike Tuesday came the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the region in a new expansion of military firepower.

The Trump administration has developed a range of options for military action in Venezuela, including direct attacks on military units that protect President Nicolás Maduro and moves to seize control of the country’s oil fields, according to multiple U.S. officials.

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The Trump administration asserted without providing any evidence that the boats were carrying illegal drugs. Fourteen boats that the administration alleged were being operated by drug traffickers have been struck, killing 43 people.

A federal agent had a daring plan: persuade Nicolas Maduro's chief pilot to surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman. The scheme reveals the extent — and often slapdash fashion — to which the U.S. has for years sought to topple Maduro.

In an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's 60 Minutes, Sen. Rick Scott advised the embattled Venezuelan leader to flee amid a massive U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean.

From Sucre to South Florida, Venezuelans have mixed feelings about whether a threatened U.S. military incursion against drug traffickers will affect their desperate situation — and their brutal dictatorship.

Two U.S. officials have confirmed to The Associated Press that the U.S. military has carried out a sixth deadly strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the Caribbean.

For the first time, one of the 27 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on suspected drug vessels has been publicly identified.

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