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Tensions between the US and Venezuela are reaching a tipping point.
Tomorrow, the UN Security Council is expected to convene for an emergency meeting.
The meeting comes at the request of the Venezuelan government over what it describes as quote,
ongoing US aggression and a plan typical of colonialism.
This came after President Trump ordered a blockade of Venezuela targeting sanctioned oil tankers.
He's designated Maduro's government a foreign terrorist organization and accused the country's leader of being the head of a drug cartel.
Over the last several weeks, there's been a steadily escalating military campaign out of Washington.
The U.S.
has been building up a naval force in the Caribbean,
one that Donald Trump describes as the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America.