Night time view of Caracas taken after a sequence of explosions heard on January 3, 2026.
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The Venezuelan authorities is accusing the U.S. of inflicting a number of explosions and fires that have been reported round Caracas in a single day. It’s not instantly clear what triggered the blasts. Movies circulating on social media platforms and first-person accounts point out the explosions started at round 2 am native time (1 am EST.)
In a submit on Telegram the federal government reacted swiftly and sternly: “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, condemns, and denounces earlier than the worldwide neighborhood the extraordinarily grave army aggression carried out by the present Authorities of america of America in opposition to Venezuelan territory and inhabitants, focusing on civilian and army areas within the metropolis of Caracas, the capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the Constitution of the United Nations”
The Pentagon referred all inquiries to the White Home.
The explosions come as america has been growing stress on the Venezuelan authorities of Nicolás Maduro, who the Trump administration accuses of main a drug cartel dubbed Los Soles v— The Suns — Cartel. Since late August the U.S. has despatched plane carriers and warships to the Caribbean. The U.S. army has struck dozens of small boats it says have been transporting medication to the U.S. Not less than 105 folks have been killed in at the very least 35 recognized strikes on the small vessels.
A journalist in Caracas experiences waking to 2 explosions that hit the La Carlota army airport in entrance of her house. She might see two fires on the runway that have been shortly extinguished. Instantly following the explosions, she experiences listening to comparable detonations in different elements of the town after which planes flying low across the metropolis for at the very least an hour. Kinfolk have despatched movies — which NPR can’t confirm — exhibiting a number of explosions in numerous elements of the metropolitan space, together with the army base close to the Presidential Palace Miraflores.
Maduro had accused the U.S. of making an attempt to take away him from energy to realize entry to Venezuela’s huge oil reserves, among the many largest on this planet.
