Evening view of Caracas taken after a collection 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 had been reported round Caracas in a single day. It’s not instantly clear what induced 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 before the international community the extremely grave military aggression carried out by the current Government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and population, targeting civilian and military locations in the city of Caracas, the capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations”
The Pentagon referred all inquiries to the White Home.
The explosions come as america has been rising 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. navy has struck dozens of small boats it says had been transporting medicine to the U.S. A minimum of 105 folks have been killed in at the very least 35 recognized strikes on the small vessels.
A journalist in Caracas studies waking to 2 explosions that hit the La Carlota navy airport in entrance of her house. She might see two fires on the runway that had been rapidly extinguished. Instantly following the explosions, she studies listening to related detonations in different components 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 not confirm — displaying a number of explosions in several components of the metropolitan space, together with the navy 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 the planet.
