Several U.S military bombers have flown from the continental U.S. down to the Caribbean in recent days. Flight tracking data showed two B-1 aircraft left Dyess Air Force Base in Texas on Thursday and approached Venezuela's coast. A U.S. official told the Associated Press that B-1s had carried out a training flight in the Caribbean.

President Donald Trump is planning to brief Congress on expanding military operations from Caribbean sea strikes, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

As the U.S. military presence near Venezuela increases, 60 Minutes traveled to the South American nation for a rare look at what life is like under its embattled dictator, Nicolás Maduro. "Instability isn't just an architectural feature in Venezuela;

Days earlier the Pentagon’s boss, Pete Hegseth, had ordered her to sail to the Caribbean, part of a vast and unexplained military build-up in the region. By early October, more than ten percent of all deployed American naval assets were located in the area controlled by the Pentagon’s Southern Command (SOUTHCOM),

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, but "our people don't even have gas even to cook. That's a disaster," María Corina Machado told Fortune.

The government of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in a Sunday statement that it captured an alleged “mercenary group” with “direct information” from the CIA. The statement from Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez accused the alleged group of planning a “false flag operation” from around nearby Trinidad and Tobago and accused the small island nation of performing ongoing “military exercises” under “the coordination,

The USS Gerald R. Ford and a strike team is headed to the Caribbean to combat the spread of drugs from Venezuela.