{"id":1056,"date":"2026-05-24T18:39:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/2026\/05\/24\/us-ospreys-hover-over-venezuelan-capital-video\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:39:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:39:48","slug":"us-ospreys-hover-over-venezuelan-capital-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"US Ospreys hover over Venezuelan capital (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington\u2019s troops reportedly practiced an evacuation from the recently reopened embassy in Caracas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US military on Saturday conducted a drill in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas that rehearsed a potential emergency and evacuation at its embassy.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise, which had been authorized by the Venezuelan authorities, is the first US military drill held in the country after Washington kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro and his wife.<\/p>\n<p>The drill involved two USMC MV-22B Osprey aircraft, which landed near the US Embassy, as well as naval vessels that entered Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>The US mission shared footage of the aircraft landing near the compound, stating the drill was a <em>\u201cmilitary response exercise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEnsuring the army\u2019s rapid response capability is a key component of mission readiness, both here in Venezuela and around the world,\u201d<\/em> the embassy said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">En estos momentos se est\u00e1 llevando a cabo un ejercicio de respuesta militar estadounidense en la Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Caracas. Garantizar la capacidad de respuesta r\u00e1pida del ej\u00e9rcito es un componente clave de la preparaci\u00f3n de la misi\u00f3n, tanto aqu\u00ed en Venezuela como\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PpEwghap8r\">pic.twitter.com\/PpEwghap8r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Embajada de los EE.UU. en Caracas (@usembassyve) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usembassyve\/status\/2058204481913770045?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.05\/thumbnail\/6a0f22bf85f54056632dc45b.jpg\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Cuban military parade through Havana\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/640348-us-cuba-blockade-blackmail-invade\/\">Blockade, blackmail, invade: Is the US preparing a military attack on Cuba?<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The markings of the aircraft suggested they belonged to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263. The unit is deployed aboard the amphibious assault vessel USS Iwo Jima, which is currently operating in the Caribbean. This is the ship to which Maduro and his wife were flown immediately after they were abducted.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon\u2019s activities triggered a small protest in the city as a few dozen activists gathered to condemn the exercise as a <em>\u201chumiliation\u201d<\/em> to the nation. The protesters were seen holding a Venezuelan flag on which the words \u2018No to the Yankee drill\u2019 were inscribed.<\/p>\n<p>The kidnapping of Maduro effectively subjugated Venezuela to the US. The country\u2019s interim authorities have actively cooperated with Washington since the raid. Maduro remains incarcerated in the US on multiple charges, including drug trafficking. He has strongly denied all the allegations, describing himself as a <em>\u201cprisoner of war.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u2019s troops reportedly practiced an evacuation from the recently reopened embassy in Caracas The US&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}