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The Associated Press reports two U.S.
Navy fighter jets flew over the Gulf of Venezuela yesterday and what a defense official describes as a routine training flight.
It lasted more than 30 minutes.
It comes amid a U.S.
military buildup off the coast of Venezuela and the Pentagon having ordered airstrikes on suspected drug boats from Venezuela in the Caribbean.
Then as well as political opposition leader Maria Machado is not expected to be an Oslo today when she's awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Machado has been in hiding for nearly a year.
She was last seen in public in early January when she was briefly detained at a political protest in Caracas.
The director of the Nobel Institute tells public broadcaster NRK,
Machado's daughter will likely be on hand to accept the prize on her mother's behalf.
Machado was being honored for her work to achieve a democratic transition in her country.
President Nicholas Maduro's government barred Machado from running for office after she won an opposition presidential primary ahead of the country's most recent presidential election.
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