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Legal experts say the U.S. military would have committed a crime if it intentionally killed survivors of a September strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat off the coast of Venezuela.

The family of a Colombian man killed by a U.S. strike in the Caribbean earlier this year has filed a formal complaint before an international court accusing the Trump administration of illegally killing him.

Jack Christofides was named as the special representative for the U.S.-backed force tasked with dismantling Haitian gangs.

"They have not moved us one inch from the correct path we must always follow," he said, adding that "they will never remove us from the path of the revolution"

The United States has positioned more Tomahawk cruise missiles in the Caribbean than it deployed during the 2011 military campaign that led to the fall of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi

Bolton also described the recent U.S. naval and aerial activity in the region as lacking strategic coherence

President Donald Trump rejected seeking a declaration of war from Congress for his administration's military campaign against alleged drug boats in the region and against the Venezuelan regime

Two Texas men have been indicted for planning to recruit homeless people to help them conduct a coup in an island in Haiti, murder all men and turn women and children into sex slaves, according to a new report

Most Americans oppose the prospect of U.S. military action in Venezuela and want Congress to authorize any further escalation, according to a new national survey by CBS News.

Jennifer Griffin said the Trump administration was considering CIA-led covert operations and "alleged plans to drop flyers demanding Maduro step down"

"We are not going to repeat the mistake made in the war between Russia and Ukraine" said Lula, adding that he is "very worried" about the military escalation in the Caribbean

The U.S. Southern Command (Southcom) is restricting leave over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in preparation for potential land strikes in the coming days, according to a NewsNation journalist

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is set to visit the Caribbean on Monday as the Trump administration considers whether to expand its military campaign against the Venezuelan regime

The U.S. has issued a new NOTAM advisory over a "potentially hazardous situation" near Venezuela's main airport, Maiquetia, due to the "worsening security situation and heightened military activity in or around Venezuela."

Rodríguez added that Venezuelans have endured what she described as more than two months of "incessant psychological warfare," but that citizens continue to work daily

Colombian scientists recovered the first items of an 18 Century shipwreck in the Caribbean sea with a treasure worth billions of dollars, local authorities said

U.S. officials conducted a war game during Donald Trump's first term to assess what might follow the fall of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with ominous results, according to by The New York Times.

Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Terry Cole said cocaine prices in the U.S. are increasing as a result of the Trump administration's strikes against alleged drug vessels in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific

A top U.S. Coast Guard official said strikes conducted against alleged drug vessels have not significantly altered cocaine smuggling routes in the Atlantic.

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"

The United States has not yet decided whether to launch a ground attack in Venezuela, according to a White House official and a senior U.S. official cited by CNN

Iran has warned that the expanding U.S. military presence in the Caribbean poses "dangerous consequences" for regional peace and security, escalating a growing international debate over American operations near Venezuela.

Nearly 300 Venezuelans deported from the United States arrived in Caracas last Friday, the latest repatriation flight to land as military tensions between Washington and Caracas continue to escalate in the Caribbean.

U.S. Marines guarding the country's embassy in Haiti exchanged gunfire with gangs controlling most of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to a report.

Foreign embassies and the United Nations in Haiti have advised officials to avoid going out following public threats from gangs controlling vast swaths of territory in the country

Gang activity remains one of Haiti's main sources of violence, responsible for hundreds of deaths and numerous crimes, including sexual assault.

James Story claimed one potential approach could be a targeted strike on a senior Maduro ally, similar to the 2020 operation that killed Iranian official Qassem Soleimani

Delcy Rodriguez also u rged supporters to prepare for both "non-armed struggle" and, if necessary, "armed struggle"