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The United States flew three B-52 bombers on missions near the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday, in the latest show of military strength by the Trump administration amid heightened tensions with President Nicolás Maduro’s government.

According to a spokesperson for the Air Force Global Strike Command, the long-range bombers conducted operations over the Caribbean Sea, roughly 150 miles north of Venezuela’s coast. Flight-tracking data on the website Flightradar24, first reported by ABC News, confirmed the aircraft circled the region before returning to base.

The B-52, a Cold War-era bomber capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear weapons, has seen decades of service in U.S. military campaigns from Iraq to Afghanistan. Its presence near Venezuelan airspace underscores a monthslong escalation of American military activity in the Caribbean, part of what President Donald Trump has described as a campaign against regional narcotics trafficking and “narco-states.”