Venezuela has announced it will send military vessels to the Caribbean Sea and other waters to combat drug trafficking.
Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lรณpez said the vessels will be deployed to patrol the Gulf of Venezuela as well as the countryโs โterritorial watersโ in the Caribbean.
In an Instagram reel, he added that about 15,000 members of the armed forces will participate in efforts on land and at sea to fight โthe armed, terrorist, drug-trafficking groups operating on the borderโ with Colombia.