US strike in Caribbean leaves survivors
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Venezuela's top ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, once again denounced the U.S. military strikes in Caribbean waters and urged the Trump administration to "stop this madness" during a press briefing with reporters at the U.N. on Thursday.
The US president also indicated Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered concessions in a bid to lower tensions.
The pair were recovered and are allegedly being kept on a Navy warship. They're the first to survive the half dozen US strikes.
Venezuela’s UN Ambassador, Samuel Moncada, accused the U.S. of being "bloodthristy" and urged the Security Council to take action.
The operation is the sixth known attack on alleged drug smugglers in waters off Venezuela, but the first known to have left some people alive.
Chad Joseph was among six people killed during U.S. military airstrikes on boats President Donald Trump claim were carrying drugs.
The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical wave in the central Atlantic which is moving quickly toward the Caribbean. There also is a non-tropical system over the northwestern Atlantic — well away from Florida — that may develop into a tropical or subtropical storm over the next several days, according to AccuWeather.
Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.N. is condemning a recent U.S. strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people, calling it “a new set of extrajudicial executions.”
The National Hurricane Center currently gives both disturbances a low chance of developing anytime soon. As of 2 p.m. Friday, the disturbance nearest to the Caribbean had no chance of strengthening into a tropical depression or stronger in the next two days and a 30% chance of formation within the next seven days.