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Cuba, a major beneficiary of Venezuelan oil, has now been cut off from those shipments as U.S. forces continue to seize tankers in an effort to control the production, refining and global distribution of the country's oil products. Trump said on social media that Cuba long lived off Venezuelan oil and money and had offered security in return, "BUT NOT ANYMORE!"

Loud noises and low-flying aircraft were heard in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to witnesses cited by international agencies. The southern area of the city, near a major military base, was without electricity. US President Donald Trump has for months threatened that he could order strikes on Venezuelan land. The US military has conducted dozens of strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in international waters.

There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs, Trump said as he met in Florida with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They load the boats up with drugs, so we hit all the boats, and now, we hit the area. It's the implementation area. That's where they implement. And that is no longer around.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday on his social media account X that the U.S. military had launched three extrajudicial attacks on four vessels sailing in the Pacific on Monday. Fourteen people were killed in the operation, and there was one survivor. Hegseth claimed, without providing evidence, that the vessels were transporting drugs and that their crew members, killed in the operation, belonged to designated terrorist organizations. He did not specify which organizations.

President Donald Trump disclosed Tuesday that the U.S. government had "knocked off" what he said was a total of three alleged drug smuggling boats, all apparently from Venezuela, a country whose leader his administration has villainized while dramatically escalating the use of deadly force in a bid to disrupt the Latin American narcotics trade. The president, speaking to reporters outside the White House, offered no other details about the previously undisclosed incident.

Grossi noted that the centrifuges are no longer operational due to significant physical damage caused by the U.S. attack, supporting Trump's claim of success.

At the end of the day there are some really important things that haven't been hit.