Two U.S. bombers were tracked flying a Caribbean mission close to Venezuela—despite Donald Trump having denied a news report detailing the mission as “false.”
The B-1B Lancers scrambled from Texas and flew toward the Venezuelan coast while staying outside its airspace, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a U.S. official and open-source tracking.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned outlet reported that the mission was aimed at increasing pressure on President Nicolás Maduro, and possibly represented a widening of Trump’s campaign targeting alleged drug traffickers and cartels.
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