Mike Baker

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Welcome back to the Afternoon Bulletin.

The Trump administration appears to be moving the U.S.

closer to a potential confrontation with Venezuela as new reporting reveals updated strike options, expanding operations in the Caribbean, and an increasingly muscular mission now branded with the name Operation Southern Spear.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth unveiled the name of the operation on Thursday, formally stating that the U.S.

Southern Command will lead a mission to, quote, remove narco-terrorist networks in the Western Hemisphere.

Senior officials described the mission as both a counter-narcotics campaign and a show of force aimed directly at Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and his Cartel of the Sons.

That's the regime-linked drug network that Washington considers a national security threat.