In an interview with LiveNOW Digital Journalist Christy Matino, Congressional representative (R-FL) Carlos Gimenez says Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is a threat to the safety of the United States.

President Trump is keeping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro guessing as the U.S. military beefs up its presence in the region, with the arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford in the Caribbean, and

The Trump administration has rapidly built up its forces in the Caribbean and repeatedly struck what it says are drug boats.

U.S. officials conducted a war game during Donald Trump's first term to assess what might follow the fall of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with ominous results, according to by The New York Times.

President Trump has taken the war on drugs to the next level. More than 15 kinetic strikes, 64 drug traffickers killed, 16 boats destroyed and the largest naval deployment since Operation Just Cause, which ousted Panamanian narco-dictator Manuel Noriega. The threat of powerful drug cartels requires a powerful and unprecedented response.

Colombia said it would favor a path for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to hand over power to a transition government tasked with organizing new elections — preferring the idea over the alternative of a more forceful U.

The Rev. Numa Molina, a Jesuit priest, has championed the poor for decades. Now, he is a power broker and a confidante of Venezuela’s embattled president, Nicolás Maduro.

The U.S. designates Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a terrorist group, expanding Trump’s authority as military assets surge near the Caribbean nation.