USS Nitze Conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation off Venezuela

USS Nitze (DDG-94) steams through the Gulf of Aden on June 14, 2019. US Navy Photo

A U.S. guided-missile destroyer conducted a freedom of navigation operation off the coast of Venezuela, U.S. Southern Command announced on Tuesday.

USS Nitze (DDG-94) steamed in Venezuela’s exclusive economic zone outside of its territorial sea, according to the SOUTHCOM statement.

“The U.S. Navy ship conducted the operation in international waters outside Venezuela’s 12 nautical mile territorial jurisdiction,”...