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❓WHAT HAPPENED: Venezuela launched three days of large-scale military exercises in the Caribbean following U.S. strikes on “narcoterrorist” drug trafficking boats.
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👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: President Donald J. Trump, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and Venezuela’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The exercises began this week on La Orchila island, Venezuela, amid heightened U.S.-Venezuela tensions in the Caribbean.
💬KEY QUOTE: “It is an aggression all down the line, it’s a judicial aggression when they criminalise us, a political aggression with their daily threatening statements, a diplomatic aggression and an ongoing aggression of military character,” Maduro said of the U.S. operations against drug traffickers.
🎯IMPACT: The situation has escalated tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela, with military actions and rhetoric intensifying on both sides.
IN FULL
Venezuela has launched a three-day military exercise titled “Sovereign Caribbean” in response to President Donald J. Trump’s recent strikes on drug trafficker boats in the region. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López confirmed