Howard Altman (2025-10-31). Navy Cruiser Joins Caribbean Flotilla As Reports Claim U.S. Is Readying Venezuela Strikes (Updated). twz.com The deployment of USS Gettysburg comes as a carrier strike group is also heading to the region, while Trump denies he is about to strike.

tehrantimes (2025-10-31). U.S. readies attacks on Venezuelan bases, ports, and airstrips, reports say. tehrantimes.com New reporting in the Wall Street Journal and the Miami Herald says the Trump administration "has identified targets in Venezuela that include military facilities used to smuggle drugs," and that Washington "has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela" — strikes that, the Herald wrote Friday, "could come at any moment."

Associated Press (2025-10-31). 'Unacceptable': UN condemns US strikes on alleged drug boats. scmp.com The UN human rights chief said on Friday that US military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are "unacceptable" and must stop. | The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark the first such condemnation of its kind from a United Nations organisation.