The US guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG-107) docked on the Northern coast of Trinidad this morning, a modern instrument of war and conflict now moored just 24 miles from the Venezuelan coast (and even less from its maritime border) at a moment when Caribbean tensions,

As a U.S. warship docked in Trinidad & Tobago for what the country's government called “training exercises,” Venezuela lashed out, accusing T&T Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of acting like a “military colony.”

Venezuela claims to have foiled a CIA-financed cell plotting a false-flag attack on an American warship, in what the government alleges is a cynical ploy to spark a ‘full military confrontation’.

Venezuela claimed Monday to have dismantled a CIA-financed cell plotting a false-flag attack on a US warship deployed to the southern Caribbean, as Washington stepped up pressure on Caracas by

The U.S. military buildup near Venezuela has drawn fierce criticism from Caracas and raised fears of a Caribbean confrontation.

Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Yan Gil Pinto has claimed that a fake attack on the US warship the USS Gravely currently docked in Trinidadian waters may be incoming as part of a “false flag” operation the Venezuelan government alleges is being carried out by the US.