Venezuela said Wednesday it had begun three days of military exercises on its Caribbean Island of La Orchila as tensions soar amid US military activity in the region. "There will be air defense deployments with armed drones, surveillance drones, submarine drones... We are going to implement electronic warfare actions," he added, citing the "threatening, vulgar voice" of the United States. The strikes and a deployment of US warships in the region on orders of President Donald Trump have raised fears of an invasion in Venezuela, whose President Nicolas Maduro Washington accuses of being a cartel leader. The exercise ordered by Maduro as commander-in-chief was baptized "Sovereign Caribbean," Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said.