Overview

• Trump demanded Venezuela immediately accept deported prisoners and psychiatric patients he says were sent into the United States, warning the “price” for refusal would be “incalculable.”
• He also released video of a U.S. military strike on a vessel in international waters, saying three alleged narco‑terrorists were killed and no U.S. personnel were hurt.
• Washington has sustained a large counternarcotics deployment in the southern Caribbean, including warships, a nuclear‑propulsion submarine and F‑35 fighters based in Puerto Rico.
• Venezuela expanded militia activities and street‑level training sessions and asked the United Nations to investigate recent boat attacks that officials say left at least 14 people dead.
• Opposition figure Henrique Capriles rejected a U.S. intervention and urged the Maduro government to pursue diplomatic de‑escalation instead of preparing the country for war.