Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro
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Venezuela’s proximity to Colombia, especially across the border state of Zulia and the Lake Maracaibo area, makes it a known transit corridor for Colombian cocaine moving toward the Caribbean and onward to Europe, with traffickers exploiting maritime and overland routes.
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CIA behind strike at Venezuelan dock that Trump claims was used by drug smugglers, AP sources say
The CIA was behind a drone strike last week at a docking area believed to have been used by Venezuelan drug cartels.
The U.S. reportedly bombed a drug-trafficking launch base inside Venezuela last month — a major escalation of an intimidation campaign against dictator Nicolás Maduro that was likely rehearsed earlier when Navy fighter jets flew into the Gulf of Venezuela.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on social media he learned the United States' attack on Venezuela struck a cocaine processing facility.
President Donald Trump said the U.S. "knocked out" a "big facility." Rumors of a U.S. strike on Venezuela haven't been confirmed.
The drone attack, said to be on a dock where drugs were being prepared for loading on boats, represented a further escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against Nicolás Maduro.
The attack last week, on a dock purportedly used for shipping narcotics, was the first known U.S. operation inside Venezuela.
There was another U.S. strike involving Venezuela, but this one was not at sea. Ed O’Keefe reports. Get caught up on this morning’s news: Trump’s foreign policy moves, Anthony Joshua’s car crash and more in today’s edition of The Yodel newsletter
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Maduro issues cryptic warning about CIA strike on Venezuelan soil
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro says his country is open to negotiating a drug trafficking agreement with the U.S., but held back when it came to the CIA.
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