Overview
- Speaking at a lawyers’ forum in Caracas carried on state television, Nicolás Maduro urged U.S. citizens to stop efforts to "unleash a war" and signed off in English with "Venezuela wants peace."
- At a Youth Day rally, he called on young Venezuelans to prepare to resist a potential invasion and vowed a "perfect fusion" of people, military, and police to defend national sovereignty.
- He rejected claims that Venezuela has nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, describing such allegations as invented justifications for attacks.
- Press TV reports that the United States has deployed naval and air assets to the region and says it has carried out at least 20 strikes on suspected drug boats that killed 80 people, which rights groups criticize as extrajudicial killings.
- Iran’s Foreign Ministry warned that U.S. military moves risk international peace and, according to Press TV, said the UK and Canada have limited intelligence support for lethal strikes as Germany and Switzerland urged a peaceful solution.