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Trump says US may open talks with Venezuela's Maduro

  • On Sunday, President Donald Trump said the U.S. may be having some discussions with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the USS Gerald R. Ford arrived in the Caribbean Sea.
  • Framing it as a counter‑drug campaign, the administration says US military strikes targeted drug smugglers and may expand efforts to stop drugs coming in by land.
  • With its arrival, Operation Southern Spear includes nearly a dozen navy ships and about 12,000 sailors and marines; since early September, strikes in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea have killed at least 83 people in 21 attacks, including a Saturday strike that killed three men.
  • Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro backed neighbourhood defence committees and wrote on Sunday that the `Venezuelan people are ready to defend their homeland against any criminal aggression`, while regional leaders and rights officials pressed the US for details.
  • US Army officials said troops have begun joint training in Trinidad and Tobago and Panama, while experts disagree on possible US warplane strikes in Venezuela.
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