Venezuela intensifies crackdown
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Tehran has "a very rich portfolio of systems they could offer" to Caracas, said Middle East drone expert, Fabian Hinz.
All but two G.O.P. senators voted against a resolution to stop the president from expanding his military campaign against drug traffickers to include land targets inside Venezuela.
The supercarrier, ordered to the Caribbean by Trump, has not moved significantly toward that area for two days.
Officials in Washington say the U.S. has identified key targets inside Venezuela that are tied to drug trafficking operations.
Venezuela has an arsenal of Russian weapons and armed civilian cells that could mount a guerrilla war. But a coup against President Nicolás Maduro? Don’t count on it.
Venezuela, a debt-defaulted nation with an economy devastated by years of mismanagement and international sanctions, has become a surprise darling of bond investors, with returns for its dollar bonds of over 80% poised to lead emerging markets this year.
According to publicly available flight-tracker data, both aircraft are operational Boeing B‑52H Stratofortress models.