We have been following the maritime siege that US forces from the US Southern Command are enacting off the coast of Venezuela, with multiple alleged drug boats targeted and destroyed.
The US has mobilized the biggest force deployed to South America in a quarter of a century, with ten navy ships and a nuclear-powered submarine, plus dozens of fighter jets, helicopters, ospreys and drones.
Since the start of the month of September, the US forces gathered in Puerto Rico has been training amphibious landing, upping the pressure on Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Maduro is accused by the US DOJ of being the head of a drug cartel, having been charged with evading sanctions, with a $50 million bounty on his head.
