President Trump was asked at the weekend whether he would contemplate US missile strikes in Venezuela to destroy the cartels the White House says operate there. “We’ll see what happens,” he said. “Look,

Military operations in the Caribbean have been accompanied by a strategy of pressure through intimidating messages

Venezuela is not seeking a military confrontation with the United States or any other regional actor, its Foreign Minister Yván Gil told CNN in a rare interview, as tensions rise with Washington, including over the recent deadly US Navy strike on a vessel allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean.

The Venezuela leader, Nicolás Maduro, said that the Trump administration was trying to start a war in the Caribbean.

The United States is threatening Venezuela with war, trying to seize its natural resources and install a puppet government. This was stated on September 17 by the President of the Republic, Nicolas Maduro,

The U.S. military has also reportedly deployed several vessels to the southern Caribbean, as part of President Trump's crackdown on Latin American drug cartels.

The Trump administration has added Venezuela to its annual list of major drug-transit and production countries and, for the first time since 1996, decertified Colombia as a U.S. ally in the fight against narcotics.

President Donald Trump disclosed Tuesday that the U.S. government had “knocked off” what he said was a total of three alleged drug smuggling boats, all apparently from Venezuela, a country whose leader his administration has villainized while dramatically escalating the use of deadly force in a bid to disrupt the Latin American narcotics trade.

Venezuela's buildup highlights a shift from denouncing U.S. pressure to mounting its own large-scale anti-drug campaign.

Tensions between Venezuela and the United States continue to escalate. President Nicolás Maduro on September 11 called on his troops, police, and civilian militias to prepare for an “armed fight” if the US attacks,