Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday said, "We don't want that [confrontation] but it is our duty to be ready to avoid it… and if it were unavoidable, to win it."

Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, has appointed former Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López as the new head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, despite the United States offering a $15 million reward for his capture.

The US State Department announced on Monday that it had officially reopened its embassy in Caracas for the first time since March 2019.

The International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor announced Thursday that the United States did not commit crimes against humanity with its sanctions against Venezuela.

President Donald Trump awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on Tuesday to Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover, one of the pilots involved in the recent U.S. military raid in Venezuela, praising his bravery under enemy fire during his State of the Union address.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has said that ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro should face legal accountability in his own country rather than in the United States. Lula made the remarks during an interview while visiting India for an artificial intelligence summit, stressing that Venezuela’s national sovereignty must take precedence over foreign intervention.

Cuban opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer, head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), has said he would support a US operation in Cuba similar to the one that removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro if Cuba’s communist leadership refuses to relinquish control.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado called for the removal of Russian influence from Venezuela during remarks at the Munich Security Conference.

The United States reportedly spent nearly $3 billion on a military operation aimed at capturing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The U.S. military reportedly used the artificial-intelligence model Claude, developed by Anthropic, in the classified operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife last month, according to multiple news reports.