The presidents of Brazil and Colombia spoke out against "foreign intervention and threats to our sovereignty" Tuesday amid a US military deployment off the coast of South America. The US government recently sent warships with thousands of troops to the southern Caribbean and F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico in what it has labeled an anti-drug operation. Last week, US forces blew up a suspected Venezuelan drug boat with 11 people aboard, and President Donald Trump threatened to shoot down Venezuelan jets if they endanger US forces. Washington recently upped a bounty to $50 million for Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro's capture on drug charges, claiming he leads a narco-terrorist cartel. Maduro, whose last two reelections were rejected as fraudulent by the United States and many other countr
Faced with US deployment, Brazil, Colombia reject 'intervention'

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