Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the United States was pointing “1,200 missiles” at his country during a news conference Monday, and issued a stark warning that he was prepared to “constitutionally declare a republic in arms” should the US attack. The US is set to raise the number of military vessels deployed near Venezuela to eight this week, which Maduro described as “the greatest…
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