The Venezuelan government accused U.S. personnel of boarding and occupying a civilian fishing boat on Friday, in the latest example of tensions as the U.S. carries out "counter narco-terror operations" in the Caribbean. A U.S. official told ABC News that Coast Guard personnel stationed aboard the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Jason Dunham searched the fishing boat for drugs following a tip but did not locate any contraband. Venezuela's Foreign Ministry office claimed Saturday that the U.S. Navy deployed "eighteen personnel with long-range weapons who boarded and occupied" the Venezuelan fishing vessel in waters within Venezuela's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). "This operation lacks any strategic proportionality and constitutes a direct provocation through the illegal use of excessive military me

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