Overview
- President Donald Trump acknowledged a recent phone conversation with Nicolás Maduro but declined to share details, after U.S. media reported the call occurred in early November and explored a potential meeting.
- Trump told pilots and airlines to treat airspace over and around Venezuela as closed, then urged reporters not to infer an imminent attack from the warning.
- Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin said the U.S. offered Maduro the option to leave for Russia or another country and stated there is no plan to send U.S. troops into Venezuela.
- Caracas filed a sovereignty complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization and appealed to OPEC, alleging U.S. aggression aimed at Venezuela’s oil resources.
- U.S. antinarcotics operations in the Caribbean remain stepped up, with major naval assets deployed and media counts of dozens killed on suspected narco‑boats, as a Washington Post report on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s alleged orders draws denials and potential Senate review.