CARACAS: Venezuela would try two Americans captured during a failed bid by mercenaries to invade the country, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila), as the United States vowed to “use every tool available” to bring them home.

Venezuela announced Monday that it had arrested the two former US Special Forces soldiers on suspicion of trying to topple Maduro in an operation supported by the US-backed opposition.

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