As President Donald Trump weighs military action inside Venezuela, building up forces in the Caribbean and flying B-52 bombers off the country’s coast this week, Nicolás Maduro is responding in kind,

The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical wave in the central Atlantic which is moving quickly toward the Caribbean. There also is a non-tropical system over the northwestern Atlantic — well away from Florida — that may develop into a tropical or subtropical storm over the next several days, according to AccuWeather.

Venezuela's top ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, once again denounced the U.S. military strikes in Caribbean waters and urged the Trump administration to "stop this madness" during a press briefing with reporters at the U.N. on Thursday.

Two people on an alleged drug smuggling boat were recovered and detained by the Navy Thursday after the vessel was destroyed.

The MV Ocean Trader, a floating barracks, helicopter base and command center for special ops forces, is currently operating in the Caribbean. A vessel that has been described as a special operations mothership is currently deployed to the Caribbean, Task & Purpose has confirmed.

The family of Chad Joseph, a 26-year-old fisherman from Trinidad and Tobago, has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of committing what they called a "perfect murder" after Joseph was reportedly killed in an American military strike on a boat in the southern Caribbean this week.