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VENEZUELAN Minister of Communication and Information Freddy Ñáñez has described the video supposedly of the "lethal strike" on the "narco-trafficking" boat as fake, adding that the "artificial intelligence-generated" footage lacked realistic details.

"It seems that Marco Rubio continues to lie to his president (Donald Trump): after leading him into a dead end, he now offers him a video with AI as 'proof' (thus proven)," the minister wrote on his Telegram channel and on Instagram on the night of September 2.

Ñáñez was referring to the announcement by the US government that, earlier on September 2, the US military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organisation.