Venezuela military, militias deploy to 'battlefronts', Maduro says

The Trump administration has ratcheted up the U.S. military presence in the southern Caribbean, as part of what it says is a crackdown on drug smugglers, and ordered the deployment of 10 F-35 fighter jets to a Puerto Rico airfield. Last week a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean killed 11 people and sank a boat from Venezuela that Trump said was transporting illegal narcotics, though his administration has provided scant information about the incident, even amid demands from members of the U.S. Congress. Maduro, who has alleged the U.S. military is hoping to drive him from power and whose government has said a Trump video of the strike is artificial intelligence, did not say how many military, police or civilian militias would participate in the new deployment.