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The World

Venezuela digs in as US sends warship to the Caribbean

The World

PRX

News, Lethaldissent

4.6943 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

As the largest US warship sails into the Caribbean, Venezuela announces a "massive mobilization" of its land, air, naval and reserve forces. Also, the Swedish government is proposing a measure that would lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 after two Swedish teenagers were arrested last year for throwing hand grenades at the Israeli embassy in Denmark. And, a key architect of the Paris Agreement reflects on this year’s COP30 meeting in Brazil. Plus, a Hungarian man spent 144 hours dancing to the "Dance Dance Revolution" music video game to make the Guinness Book of World Records.

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0:00.0

The U.S. Navy is sending warships to the Caribbean.

0:08.0

Not everyone is convinced they're doing it to stop drug smugglers.

0:11.5

It's a massive buildup many, many times more extravagant than we would ever need for a counter-narcotics operation.

0:19.0

I'm Marco Werman.

0:20.0

And I'm Carolyn Beeler.

0:21.3

Today, what's going on between the U.S. and Venezuela?

0:24.5

Also, the UN Climate Summit underway in Brazil builds on a 10-year-old agreement.

0:29.6

The motivation for it was clear.

0:31.7

Working on climate means improving the quality of life of all of us.

0:36.6

We'll get a status update. And hear about a

0:39.2

disturbing trend in Sweden. When it comes to gang-related violence crimes, it's almost always kids.

0:46.5

Plus dancing nonstop for six days for global glory. All that and more today, here on the world.

0:57.4

This is the world. I'm Carolyn Beeler.

1:00.2

And I'm Marco Wurman. Glad you could make it today.

1:03.0

Venezuela says it's moving quickly to mobilize its military, calling up land, air, naval, and reserve forces.

1:09.7

That's in response to the Pentagon's biggest naval

1:11.8

buildup in the Caribbean since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Washington says it's bolstering forces

1:18.2

in the region to combat drug trafficking. But there is growing concern that the real goal is to

1:23.3

topple the government of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. It's not just the Venezuelan government

1:28.7

and its allies that are concerned, so are critics of the U.S. policy. We turned to former CIA

1:35.0

analyst Fulton Armstrong for Insight. He's at American University's Center for Latin American and

1:40.9

Latino Studies in Washington, D.C. It's a massive buildup many, many times more extravagant than we would ever need for a

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