Pentagon warns Venezuela over Caribbean operations
Shafaq News – Washington
Two Venezuelan military aircraft flew over a US Navy vessel in international waters, the US Department of Defense revealed on Friday.
In a post on X, the Pentagon stated, “The cartel running Venezuela is strongly advised not to pursue any further effort to obstruct, deter or interfere with counter-narcotics and counter-terror operations carried out by the US military."
— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) September 5, 2025
Earlier, US President Donald Trump said that American forces attacked a drug-laden boat in the Caribbean Sea that had departed from Venezuela and was heading to the United States.
Washington accuses the Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro of running a drug trafficking network and has recently doubled the reward for his capture to $50 million.
Meanwhile, Maduro has raised alarm for weeks over the US naval deployment in the Southern Caribbean, claiming the US was “seeking a regime change through military threat” and promising that if attacked by Washington, he would mobilise the country and declare “a republic in arms”.
