The first blasts hit before dawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within hours, Donald Trump was on Truth Social boasting that Venezuela\u2019s president had been captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caracas shook, military bases burned, and stunned residents watched the sky glow orange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Washington called it a strike on \u201cnarco terrorists.\u201d Venezuela called it naked theft of oil and power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What began as open-water \u201canti-narcotics\u201d strikes has spiraled into the most dangerous US\u2013Latin America confrontation in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By hitting military sites in Caracas and surrounding states, Washington crossed a threshold Venezuela long warned about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump\u2019s triumphant tone on social media, promising more \u201cdetails\u201d from Mar-a-Lago, only deepened fears that this was not a limited operation, but the opening chapter of something far larger and less controllable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Caracas, a shaken government declared a national emergency, accusing the United States of using drug trafficking as a pretext to seize oil and minerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cuba and Colombia swiftly condemned the attacks, wary of a conflict that could ignite the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Months earlier, Maduro had offered talks on oil and narcotics; now his government speaks the language of survival and \u201ceternal war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Between Trump\u2019s vow to \u201cjust kill people\u201d and Venezuela\u2019s warnings of invasion, diplomacy feels perilously distant, even as civilians brace for what tomorrow\u2019s sky might bring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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