Is the US about to invade Venezuela?

Cuba claims US special forces are planning to intervene using the pretext of a humanitarian crisis

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Anti-Trump protesters outside the Bank of England after it froze assets held by Venezuela
(Image credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)

Cuba has claimed the US is secretly moving special forces soldiers closer to Venezuela ahead of a full military intervention aimed at regime change in the beleaguered South American country.

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