The Trump administration has chosen military installations inside Venezuela to attack, “and the strikes could come at any moment,” the Miami Herald reported Friday—hours after the Wall Street Journal first reported the available targeting.
The attacks “will seek to destroy military installations used by the drug-trafficking organization the U.S. says is headed by Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and run by top members of his regime,” with the goal of “decapitat[ing] the cartel’s hierarchy,” the Herald reports.
“If President Trump decides to move forward with airstrikes… the targets would send a clear message to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro that it is time to step down,” U.S. officials told the Journal .
Update: U.S. military officials “do not know precisely who

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