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Venezuela, meanwhile, has condemned “military provocation” by the CIA and others.

“CAREOTICS” features multimedia provocations, from a film of Abareshi splayed in a hospital bed to latex gloves printed with the words “This touch is your best hurt and your most horrific pleasure.”

A US guided-missile destroyer that docked for four days in Trinidad and Tobago, within firing range of mainland Venezuela -- which called its presence a "provocation" -- departed as scheduled on Thursday, AFP witnessed.

An asylum seeker who "calmly" walked into a bank and stabbed a man inside to death without provocation or motive has been jailed for life.

And for an administration that thrives on unpredictability, this new script could be only one geopolitical provocation, or one presidential social-media post, away from being flipped all over again.