Colombia announced a 30,000-troop deployment along its border with Venezuela, citing security risks linked to transnational armed groups following recent developments in the neighboring country.

Alexander Lukashenko dismisses speculation about Nicolás Maduro leaving Venezuela and warns that any US military action would only deepen the conflict.

Cuba renewed its backing of Venezuela as U.S. military deployments in the Caribbean fuel concerns over regional stability.

“The dangers to the peace, security and stability of Our America are real and imminent,” warns the Cuban Foreign Ministry.

“There is no war against smuggling, what there is is a war for oil and it must be stopped by the world,” Petro insisted on the use of the fight against drugs as a way to invade the Caribbean by the United States.

For years, the Bolivarian nation has been subjected to U.S. harassment, the Venezuelan leader recalled. On Thursday, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to ask him to publicly pronounce on the U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean near Venezuelan territorial waters. RELATED: Venezuelan Military Seizes Drugs […]

The presence of a NATO military contingent in Ukraine would mean an uncontrollable escalation of the conflict, Zakharova said. On Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Moscow firmly rejects the deployment of NATO forces in Ukraine following a potential cease-fire, a plan proposed Sunday during the “Coalition of Volunteers” meeting co-chaired by the […]