Venezuela claimed Monday to have dismantled a CIA-financed cell plotting a false-flag attack on a US warship deployed to the southern Caribbean, as Washington stepped up pressure on Caracas by flying bombers nearby.
Venezuelan authorities said they uncovered an operation targeting the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer that docked Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago, within firing distance of the Venezuelan mainland.
The ship's arrival sparked outrage in Caracas, which called it a "provocation" and claimed it was "aimed at provoking a war in the
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