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Maduro: "Colombia knows we are one, Siamese twins, and whatever happens with Colombia is with Venezuela, and whatever happens with Venezuela is with Colombia, as a Colombian military officer wrote to me two weeks ago: if you touch Venezuela, you touch Colombia, we are one homeland, and we don't say that just for the sake of it. I know what I'm saying."

Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 13 km N of Estebanía, Dominican Republic

María Corina Machado spoke with Rodrigo Paz, president-elect of Bolivia, and says that Venezuela is counting on him to free itself from Maduro's tyranny.

Petro advocates for "letting democracy express itself" in Venezuela: "Maduro and María Corina still have the option of paving the way."

Bolivians elect Rodrigo Paz as president, ending two decades of socialist rule after he pledged to strengthen ties with the U.S. and develop the nation’s vast mineral wealth

The moment the Ecuadorian Army bombed drug trafficking targets in Buenos Aires

The Foreign Ministry of Colombia asserts that Trump's statements against Petro are a threat to national sovereignty.

At this hour, fighting is being reported between Army troops and FARC dissidents from the "Jaime Martínez" group in the Brisas de Mary López district of the municipality of Buenos Aires, Cauca. Soldiers continue their offensive to ensure security amid the Youth Council elections in the area.

The United States attacked a boat believed to be belonging to the ELN, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "They will be hunted like al-Qaeda."

President @petrogustavo called on citizens to gather in Bolívar Plaza, "next to the statue of the emancipator, the guide of free beings, and next to his sword." In his message, the president stated: "Bolívar rides again."

Petro: "Mr. Trump, Colombia has never been rude to the US; on the contrary, it has deeply loved its culture. But you are rude and ignorant toward Colombia. Read, as your chargé d'affaires in Colombia did, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and I assure you that you will learn something from solitude. I don't do business, like you do. I'm a socialist. I believe in aid and the common good, and in the common goods of humanity, the greatest of all: life, endangered by your oil. If I'm not a businessman, much less a drug trafficker, there is no greed in my heart. I could never understand greed. A mobster is a human being who embodies the best of capitalism: greed. And I am the opposite: a lover of life and therefore a millennial warrior of life. Greed flees us, because life is more powerful."

Trump: President Gustavo Petro, of Columbia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Columbia. It has become the biggest business in Columbia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLUMBIA.

Ecuador’s Ministry of the Interior said Saturday that it received one of the survivors. Authorities told CNN the survivor “is being medically evaluated.” They added that “the corresponding legal process will follow” and gave no further details

The U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago has issued an alert to U.S. citizens on the island, urging them to stay away from U.S. government facilities throughout the weekend.

U.S. Embassy thanks police after violent protests in Colombia. The embassy praised the bravery of the police officers who protected facilities and personnel during the violent incidents at the protest.

Donald Trump shares video of the bombing of the drug-laden submarine

Clashes erupted between pro-Palestine demonstrators and Colombian police outside the US embassy in Bogota after protesters attempted to reach the embassy.

Venezuela is moving troops into position and mobilizing what President Maduro asserts is a 'millions-strong militia' amid the biggest US military buildup in the Caribbean since the 1980s, according to the WSJ

María Corina Machado defends U.S. actions against drug trafficking and urges Latin American leaders to demand Maduro's departure.

Vente Human Rights warns of a "wave of repression" in Venezuela: "at least 30 arbitrary arrests" reported

Reuters: The US military rescued survivors by helicopter after Thursday's raid in the Caribbean and is holding them on a warship.

Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 92 km NE of Savannah Bight, Honduras

Diosdado Cabello: "Our people have the nation's weapons to protect the country from any enemy ." "After that, there's no point in bidding for time. Anyone who comes here knows a peasant with a machete in his hand will appear."

Trinidad police investigating deaths of two citizens reported killed in latest US Caribbean strike @AFP

Reporter: Why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela? Trump: They have emptied their prisons into the United States of America

The Trump administration has authorized lethal CIA operations in Venezuela - NYT

At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell @NatashaBertrand and @ZcohenCNN. The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed

The B-52H "Stratofortress" Long-Range Strategic Bombers seen flying earlier over the Caribbean Sea, are now heading south in the direction of Venezuela

3 B-52's spotted flying between Mexico and Cuba

Protests escalated across northern Ecuador over President Daniel Noboa’s decision to raise diesel prices. Clashes between the military and demonstrators in the town of Otavalo left 13 soldiers injured