The US government has ramped up its
The first explosions struck before dawn, shattering the early-morning quiet over Caracas and immediately signaling that this was no routine military maneuver. Within hours, Donald Trump took to Truth Social, publicly boasting that Venezuela’s president had been captured and hinting that further details would soon follow from Mar-a-Lago. His posts, triumphant in tone, reverberated far beyond his online audience and into a region already on edge. As the morning unfolded, residents of Caracas and nearby states reported violent tremors, burning…