US President Donald Trump on Friday said Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro had offered major concessions to avoid confrontation with Washington. Trump’s comments came amid a significant US military presence in the Caribbean, which Washington says targets drug cartels linked to Venezuela. Earlier this week, B-52 bombers circled the Caribbean off Venezuela’s coast, while seven US Navy ships have been deployed as part of counter-narcotics operations. The build-up has raised fears in Caracas that the US may be seeking regime change. On Thursday, US forces struck a suspected drug-carrying submarine, leaving several people alive — the first survivors since the Trump administration began military strikes in the region last month. “We attacked a submarine, and that was a drug-carryin

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