Carrie Khan

says he's involved in drug trafficking and conspiracy with the Cartel de los Soles, while the International Criminal Court is investigating him also for crimes against humanity, including torture and extraditional killings.

Sure, reports started flooding social media with videos of multiple explosions throughout the city, and I spoke right away with a reporter, Vanessa Silva, and she actually lives right in front of the military airport La Carlota in Caracas.

And let me just play you her first immediate reactions.

She says relatives throughout the city were also reporting explosions.

And Caracas is in a valley.

And so she said you could hear explosions echoing throughout there.

And she said she was just terrified.

She says there were several fires on the runway, but they were put out quickly.

But she could hear airplanes continuing to circle around the Caracas skies for hours.

Beside the La Carlota military airport in the complex, a government statement was put out listing attacks in three other states, but it didn't go into details.

And the defense minister, Vladimir Padrino, put out a defiant video statement this morning describing the operation.

Here's a bit of that.

He describes U.S.

helicopters firing missiles on what he says were not only military targets, but also civilian neighborhoods.

But he did not provide any evidence from that.

It's been swift.

Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canal condemned the U.S.

strike.

He called it criminal.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro says his forces are being deployed to the border with Venezuela, and he's preparing for a potential influx of refugees from there.