The US military has flown an increased number of reconnaissance flights in international airspace off the coast of Venezuela the last several days to gather classified intel about the embattled government of President Nicholas Maduro, military sources say
The officials would not detail which US military aircraft are being used, but the Navy and Air Force maintain several large fixed-wing aircraft capable of intercepting communications and monitoring the status of weaponry.The officials noted that the effort is limited to whatever the aircraft can gather by staying in international airspace.
Guaido has called for other nations to send aid to the country in response to worsening food and medicine shortages. Maduro denies a humanitarian crisis exists in Venezuela and says the aid efforts are part of a coup attempt. He said the attacks were conducted by irregular groups protesting Maduro's government on the international bridges along the border between Venezuela and Colombia -- the Simon Bolivar bridge in San Antonio and the Francisco de Paula Santander bridge in Ureña.
• 274 service personnel from different branches of the Venezuelan armed forces have defected to Colombia, Migración Colombia, Colombia's immigration agency, said in a statement Monday evening. Members of the national police, national guard, army and navy are among the defections, the statement said.aligned with Maduro, effectively freezing their assets in the United States.
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