Venezuela raises military alert as US aircraft carrier nears Venezuela has elevated its military preparedness and activated what Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino López called a “higher phase” of Plan Independence 200, a nationwide defence operation ordered by President Nicolás Maduro.

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