Sixty-three percent of respondents told Quinnipiac they are against military action against Caracas, with just 25 percent expressing support.

CARACAS, Venezuela -- U.S. President Donald Trump is threating to blockade sanctioned oil tankers from Venezuela, a move that could devastate a country already wrangling with years of spiraling crisis.

U.S. Navy aircraft carried out patrol flights Friday near the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao as part of what Washington describes as an expanded security operation targeting illicit trafficking networks - a move Venezuela denounced as an act of intimidation and a prelude to broader conflict in the region.

Moscow's statement comes days after President Trump announced 'total and complete blockade' of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, which its envoy to UN calls Washington's policy

They were really close,” one of the pilots told controllers of the encounter at approximately 26,000 feet. “We were climbing right into him.”

The U.S. military has amassed an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast of Venezuela since this summer, when the Trump administration first began to shift assets to th

The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had launched another attack on an alleged drug boat, killing four people.