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After deploying the Navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean, Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly mulling a military operation inside Venezuela to take out cocaine facilities and routes used by drug traffickers, marking yet another escalation of a brewing war with cartels in South America.
The administration is considering several operations and has not ruled out alternate diplomatic options in the president’s campaign, according to CNN, citing U.S. officials.
Trump is also “not in a rush” to make a decision to strike Venezuela while his focus is on a trip to Asia and ne
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