We open this week’s briefing in a powder-keg Caribbean, where Operation Southern Spear has surged the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group and a reawakened Roosevelt Roads into position for rapid strikes on Venezuela’s narco-regime. We walk through the war cabinet’s menu of options—decapitation raids, port and airstrip bombings, and Marines on the beach—and the cascading risks of militias, cartels, and Russian-Iranian weapons threatening to turn any incursion into another endless jungle insurgency. Stateside, we unpack Operation Charlotte’s Web in NC, where DHS is stress-testing its new mass-removal machine, driving shuttered job sites, emptied classrooms, and a rising wave of self-deportations as enforcement ramps. In travel security news, we dissect the U.S. embassy's warning to American "snowbirds" heading to Mexico, the cartel narco-banners declaring open season on Americans in resort corridors, and the simmering anti-foreigner backlash in Mexico City’s gentrified neighborhoods. An expanded written version of this report can be found in this week’s Threat Journal newsletter. You can subscribe for free by visiting www.ThreatJournal.com. A link to this issue will be sent to you immediately via email. AlertsUSA Homepage http://www.AlertsUSA.com – (Homeland Security Alerts for Mobile Devices) AlertsUSA on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/alertsusa AlertsUSA on Twitter https://twitter.com/alertsusa Threat Journal on Twitter https://twitter.com/threatjournal Threat Journal Homepage https://www.ThreatJournal.com