Venezuela mobilises 4.5 million militias as U.S. warships approach In a direct response to an increased U.S. military presence in the Caribbean, Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has announced a plan to mobilise over 4.5 million militia members to "defend national sovereignty." This mobilisation follows reports that three U.S. Navy destroyers, the USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson, are heading toward the southern Caribbean with thousands of Marines aboard. The deployment is part of a major counternarcotics operation and comes after Washington raised the bounty for Maduro's capture to an...