Overview
- At a congress of the ruling PSUV, Nicolás Maduro ordered immediate execution of the plan and called for operational planning at the street and community level.
- The New York Times reported the White House considered options including airstrikes and special‑operations missions to capture or kill Maduro, and that the CIA was authorized to conduct covert operations.
- U.S. special envoy Richard Grenell publicly rejected the NYT article as error‑filled and said it belongs in the opinion section.
- U.S. military activity near Venezuela has included counter‑narcotics operations, with multiple ships, a nuclear submarine and roughly 10,000 troops reported in the Caribbean, and speedboats destroyed in international waters.
- President Trump said the United States is not planning to attack Venezuela, as separate media reports speculate about potential strikes on cartel targets.