Venezuela’s Maduro condemns US Naval buildup as regime change plot

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00:00Elsewhere, tensions are rising in the Caribbean this morning.

00:06Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is accusing the United States of trying to topple his government.

00:12Maduro says American warships off his coast are not about drug cartels.

00:17They're about regime change.

00:19He called the naval buildup, quote, the biggest threat our continent has seen in 100 years

00:24and warned Venezuela is super prepared to respond.

00:27The Trump administration says the deployment is aimed at cartels moving fentanyl and cocaine

00:32into the United States and American communities.

00:35The administration has doubled the reward for Maduro's capture to $50 million,

00:40accusing him of running his own cartel.

00:43The Pentagon confirms more ships and thousands of Marines are moving into the region,

00:48even as Maduro warns any strike would, quote, stain President Trump's hands with blood.