The Venezuelan government on Thursday denounced the “illegal incursion” of five American fighter jets into the country's coastal airspace, alleging “a pattern of harassment” by the U.S. government.

The news came a day before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. military killed four “narco-terrorists” off the coast of Venezuela in the latest in a series of U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea.

Venezuela’s defense and foreign affairs ministries released a joint statement a day prior, stating that “combat aircraft” from the U.S. had been........

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