What’s new and what’s confirmed

President Donald Trump said out loud what Washington usually keeps securely hidden in red-bordered file folders marked “Secret”. He has authorized the CIA to run covert operations inside Venezuela. The President framed it as a counternarcotics push and a response to Venezuela-based criminality. That admission came as the U.S. military carried out lethal strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean beginning September 2, with at least five vessels destroyed and twenty-seven individuals killed, several originating from Venezuela. The White House has not publicly released evidence of narcotics on those craft.

The goal in Venezuela

Publicly, the mission is about drugs. Privately, and by any sober reading of the moves on the board, it is a pressure campaig

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