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Venezuela’s se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus has in­creased its pres­ence in ar­eas in the east­ern end of the coun­try that face Trinidad and To­ba­go and oth­er Caribbean na­tions, ac­cord­ing to me­dia re­ports there.

The de­vel­op­ment comes as Venezuela’s For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter, Yván Gil, ex­pressed the South Amer­i­can coun­try’s con­cerns re­gard­ing the US mil­i­tary pres­ence in the re­gion dur­ing a meet­ing with of­fi­cials from the Unit­ed Na­tions.

On Thurs­day, Gil held a meet­ing with Gi­an­lu­ca Ram­pol­la, the Unit­ed Na­tions’ res­i­dent co­or­di­na­tor in the coun­try.