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Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed 10 Americans were freed from Venezuela in a July prisoner swap. President Donald Trump sent an envoy to Caracas.
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.
Two members of Venezuela’s Wayuu indigenous community in the area told NBC News that they witnessed an unexplained explosion on Dec. 18 that destroyed a hut that possibly was used for storage.
Trump acknowledged a covert U.S. strike on Venezuelan territory in an interview with a local news outlet on the day after Christmas, setting off a scramble to clarify which target he was talking about.
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In escalating tensions with Venezuela, Trump says the US ‘hit’ a coastal drug loading facility
President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on social media he learned the United States' attack on Venezuela struck a cocaine processing facility.
Venezuela's government has freed 88 more people detained after protests that followed the South American nation's July 2024 election, marking the second mass release in as many weeks amid U.S. pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro.
Today’s U.S.–Venezuela tensions aren’t just about a single strike or a single policy decision, they’re the result of years of political decay, economic mismanagement, and a long-running