Caracas, Oct 23, 2025 (AFP) - Maduro says Venezuela has 5,000 Russian anti-aircraft missiles to counter US

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2025-10-23

President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that Venezuela has 5,000 Russian man-portable surface-to-air missiles to counter US forces deployed in the Caribbean. Washington has deployed stealth warplanes and Navy ships in the Caribbean as part of what it calls counter-narcotics efforts, and destroyed at least eight vessels it said were smuggling drugs from Venezuela toward the United States. Venezuela has denounced the deployment as a dress rehearsal......

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