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WATCH: Trump says boat near Venezuela targeted by U.S. ‘had massive amounts of drugs’

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified a lethal U.S. strike on a Venezuelan vessel.

WATCH: U.S. carried out strike on drug-carrying vessel that left from Venezuela, Trump says

By Aamer Madhani, Regina Garcia Cano, Associated Press

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela.

Maduro vows a ‘republic in arms’ if U.S. forces in the Caribbean attack Venezuela

By Associated Press

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he “would constitutionally declare a republic in arms” if the South American country were attacked by forces that the United States government has deployed to the Caribbean.

Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

By Janie Har, Associated Press

It is unclear what effect Friday’s ruling will have on the estimated 350,000 Venezuelans whose protections expired in April. Protections for another group of 250,000 Venezuelans are set to expire Sept. 10.

Why is the U.S. deploying warships to South America? 4 things to know

By Regina Garcia Cano, Konstantin Toropin, Associated Press

The United States is boosting its maritime force in the waters off Venezuela to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels, with the expected arrival of more vessels to the area next week.

14,000 U.S.-bound migrants have returned south since Trump’s border changes, UN says

By Megan Janetsky, Associated Press

A report reveals that over 14,000 migrants, mainly Venezuelans, have reversed their journey to the U.S. and headed back south since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.

Trump doubles reward for arrest of Venezuela’s president to face U.S. drug charges

By Joshua Goodman, Associated Press

The Trump administration is offering a $50 million reward for Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world's largest narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine.

Former Venezuelan detainees speak out about abuse in El Salvador’s mega-prison

By Ali Rogin, Harry Zahn

In July, a three-country deal released 238 Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration had rounded up and sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. Now, some of the freed men are speaking out about the physical and psychological abuse they…

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‘It is hell’: Migrants returning to Venezuela describe life in El Salvador prison where U.S. sent them

By Regina Garcia Cano, Associated Press

Venezuelan migrants imprisoned for months in El Salvador under a U.S. immigration crackdown have reunited with their families.

Supreme Court allows Trump to strip humanitarian parole of 500,000 people from 4 countries

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

The justices lifted a lower-court order that kept humanitarian parole protections in place for more than 500,000 migrants from four countries: Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.