The Latest Breaking News from Venezuela

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro said he plans to celebrate his birthday on November 23 with what he described as a large public concert at Caracas's Estadio Monumental Simón Bolívar, prompting an ominous response online from former U.S. Treasury official Marshall Billingslea.

The Colombian government rejected a recent report claiming that Foreign Minister Rosa Villavicencio said the administration would back a plan where Venezuelan authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro would hand over power to a transitional government.

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar denied that the United States had asked to use her country as a staging ground for military action against Venezuela, rejecting speculation fueled by ongoing U.S. Marine exercises in the archipelago.

China has called on the United States to avoid interfering in Venezuela's internal affairs, responding to Washington's expanding military operations in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

Former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana said that any potential U.S. operation in Venezuela "will be an extraction and not an invasion"

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President Donald Trump has approved CIA plans to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela, which could potentially pave the way for broader military action inside the country, according to a new report

Caribbean island of Trinidad, just seven miles from Venezuela, is suffering as the U.S. targets drug runners amid huge military build-up in the region

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