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  JD Vance defends US military action on Venezuela: 'Drug trafficking, oil expropriation main reasons'

  World | January 05, 2026 7:03 IST

  Responding to criticism that Venezuela has little connection to the global drug trade, JD Vance, in a post on X, said that such claims were misleading, stressing that cocaine trafficking remains central to the finances of Latin American drug cartels.

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  5 survive plane crash off Venezuela; 1 killed

  World | February 03, 2013 17:07 IST

  Caracas,Feb 3: A small plane has crashed into the sea off Venezuela's coast, leaving one person dead and five survivors who were rescued and brought to shore.The twin-engine Beechcraft BE-58 went down east of the