Showing posts with label Venezuela. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Venezuela. Show all posts

Sunday, December 07, 2025

Trump's Land Strikes on Venezuela Will Begin ‘Very Soon’ | David Charter

Dec 7, 2025 | “That’s inching towards what looks like a potential regime change.”

Trump’s plans to launch land strikes in Venezuela and shows a “full press” to change the country’s regime, says The Times's assistant US editor David Charter.




It's such a pity that Maduro can't depose Trump! The world would be a much better, safer place. — © Mark Alexander

Wednesday, December 03, 2025

Trump kündigt baldige Bodenangriffe in Venezuela an – und droht dem nächsten Land

BERLINER ZEITUNG: „Wir wissen, wo die Bösen leben“, sagt US-Präsident Trump mit Blick auf mutmaßliche Drogenschmuggler. Schon „sehr bald“ wolle er Angriffe auf dem venezolanischen Festland starten – doch nicht nur dort.

US-Präsident Donald Trump hat am Dienstag baldige Angriffe auf mutmaßliche Drogenschmuggler angekündigt, die in Lateinamerika zu Land unterwegs sind. „Wir werden diese Schläge auch an Land durchführen“, sagte Trump während einer Kabinettssitzung auf die Frage nach den bisherigen Angriffen zur See. „Wissen Sie, an Land ist es viel einfacher … und wir kennen die Routen, die sie nehmen. Wir wissen alles über sie. Wir wissen, wo sie leben. Wir wissen, wo die Bösen leben. Und damit werden wir sehr bald beginnen.“

Wie der US-Nachrichtensender CBS News berichtet, drohte Trump zugleich Kolumbien, dass es künftig ebenfalls mit Angriffen rechnen müsse, wenn der Drogenschmuggel aus dem Land in die Vereinigten Staaten nicht begrenzt würde. Jedes Land, in dem illegale Drogen produziert oder gehandelt werden, „könne angegriffen werden“, so Trump. » | Sophie Barkey | Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2025

Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Prof. John Mearsheimer Calls Venezuela War a Trump's Bluff to Cut a Real Estate Deal

Dec 1, 2025

Venezuela : Maduro danse en défiant les menaces d’intervention américaine

LE FIGARO : VIDÉO - Le président vénézuélien Nicolas Maduro a promis lundi de rester «pour toujours au service du peuple», alors qu’il rassemble ses partisans à Caracas dans une démonstration de force pour son mouvement socialiste.

Danser pour oublier. Alors que les menaces d’intervention américaine s’intensifient sur son pays, le président vénézuélien a rassemblé ses partisans à Caracas et assuré qu’il ne se laisserait pas intimider. Nicolas Maduro semblait imperturbable sur scène lundi 1er décembre en dansant sur un remix de ses propres slogans pacifistes.

Le morceau électronique, intitulé «Paz si, guerro no» (La paix oui, la guerre non), reprend en effet des extraits de discours de Maduro. Des centaines de milliers de partisans, brandissant des drapeaux vénézuéliens, ont assisté à la cérémonie. La foule a acclamé l’homme de 63 ans, coiffé d’une casquette rouge rappelant la casquette de baseball MAGA, lorsqu’il s’est mis à danser. » | Par Juliette Picard | mardi 2 décembre 2025

Au lieu que Nicolás Maduro fuie le Venezuela, il serait bien plus judicieux que Trump quitte la Maison-Blanche ! Nicolás Maduro a sa place au Venezuela, car il est vénézuélien. Trump, en revanche, n'a pas sa place à la Maison-Blanche, car c'est un imposteur. Il a vraiment le culot d'exiger que Maduro quitte son propre pays. De toute façon, Trump ne veut de lui qu'une chose : s'emparer des précieuses réserves pétrolières du pays. Il veut s'enrichir encore davantage, lui et les autres Trump. C'est répugnant ! — © Mark Alexander

Monday, December 01, 2025

“The Empire Has Never Been More Naked” - US Media in Trump’s War with Venezuela | The Listening Post

Nov 29, 2025 | The United States’ deadly “counter-narcotics mission” off Venezuela’s coast hinges on an unproven drug-smuggling narrative - a familiar pretext for regime change, and one the mainstream media have been quick to echo. Meanwhile, Venezuelans face escalating repression at home.

Trump Reportedly Gave Maduro Ultimatum to Relinquish Power in Venezuela

THE GUARDIAN: US president sent a ‘blunt message’ to his South American counterpart, sources say

Donald Trump reportedly gave Nicolás Maduro an ultimatum to relinquish power immediately during their recent call – but Venezuela’s authoritarian leader declined, demanding a “global amnesty” for himself and allies.

On Sunday, the US president confirmed the call had taken place, telling reporters: “I wouldn’t say it went well or badly, it was a phone call.”

Neither the US nor Venezuelan government have offered further details of the topics discussed during the highly unusual conversation, which is thought to have happened on 21 November.

But sources told the Miami Herald the US president had sent a “blunt message” to his South American counterpart, who is the focus of a four-month pressure campaign in which Trump has ordered a massive naval deployment off Venezuela’s northern coast.

“You can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now,” Trump reportedly said, offering safe passage for Maduro, his wife and his son “only if he agreed to resign right away”.

However, Venezuela’s president reportedly refused to step down immediately and allegedly made a series of counter-demands, including worldwide immunity from prosecution and being allowed to cede political control but keep control of the armed forces. » | Tom Phillips, Latin America correspondent | Monday, December 1, 2025

Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike?

Dec 1, 2025 | Democracy Now! speaks with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the Trump administration's deadly, ongoing attacks on alleged "drug boats" amid reports President Trump is preparing to attack Venezuela, with all airspace surrounding Venezuela now closed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others are "turning the military into a criminal operation," says Ackerman. "This shows the moral degeneracy that the 'war on terror' has left as a legacy in the U.S. military."


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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Venezuela : Maduro demande l'aide de l'OPEP, Washington lui propose de «partir pour la Russie»

LE FIGARO : Caracas insiste sur le fait que l’objectif véritable des États-Unis serait un changement de régime et la mainmise sur les réserves pétrolières du pays tandis qu’un sénateur américain affirme qu’une porte de sortie lui a été proposée.

Le Venezuela a demandé dimanche à l'Organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole (OPEP) de l'aider à stopper «l'agression» des États-Unis, qui ont déployé des bateaux de guerre dans les Caraïbes et évoquent la possibilité de réaliser des frappes aériennes sur le sol vénézuélien.

Le président Donald Trump, qui dit lutter contre les cartels de la drogue du Mexique et d'Amérique centrale, intensifie la pression sur le Venezuela du président Nicolas Maduro, avec un déploiement militaire majeur, notamment avec le plus grand porte-avions du monde. Il accuse Caracas d'être derrière le trafic de produits stupéfiants qui inondent le marché américain. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | dimanche 30 novembre 2025

Venezuela Denounces Trump’s Airspace Remarks as ‘Colonialist Threat’

Nov 30, 2025 | Venezuela is accusing US President Donald Trump of making colonialist threats, after he declared that its airspace was “closed”.

Tension between Washington and Caracas has been escalating for weeks. The US has been gathering its largest military presence in the Caribbean in decades.

Al Jazeera’s chief US correspondent Alan Fisher reports from Washington, DC.


What Venezuelans Think of Trump's Attempt to Close Venezuelan Airspace | DW News

Nov 29, 2025 | Donald Trump says the airspace above Venezuela is to be closed. The US president is stepping up his feud with Venezuela's leftist leader Nicolás Maduro over alleged drug-running through the Caribbean. With a US task force already in the region, Trump has previously said land operations will begin soon against suspected Venezuelan drug-traffickers.

Saturday, November 29, 2025

In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Trump’s statements on social media less than 24 hours apart showed the dissonance in his campaign against drug trafficking.

President Trump and his top aides have said that drug cartels present one of the most pressing dangers to the United States, and have promised to eradicate them from the Western Hemisphere.

As part of that effort, Mr. Trump signaled on Saturday that he was ratcheting up his campaign against drug cartels, saying in a social media post that airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered “CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY.”

Less than 24 hours earlier, Mr. Trump had announced on social media that he was granting a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who had been convicted in the United States of drug trafficking charges in what was seen as a major victory for authorities in a case against a former head of state. That pardon has not yet been officially granted.

The two posts displayed a remarkable dissonance in the president’s strategy, as he moved to escalate a military campaign against drug trafficking while ordering the release of a man prosecutors said had taken “cocaine-fueled bribes” from cartels and “protected their drugs with the full power and strength of the state — military, police and justice system.” In fact, prosecutors said that Mr. Hernández, for years, allowed bricks of cocaine from Venezuela to flow through Honduras en route to the United States.

Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, called the pardon “unconscionable” and said that Mr. Trump’s actions were more evidence of a “bogus narrative” around his strategy to counter illicit drugs.

“It completely undercuts the administration’s claim that they really care about narco-trafficking, and that raises the question of what is really going on with the Venezuela operation,” he said. » | Tyler Pager | Reporting from New York | Saturday, November 29, 2025

Trump Says His Invasion of Venezuela Starting ‘Very Soon’

Nov 29, 2025 | Donald Trump announced on Thanksgiving Day that his invasion of Venezuela is going to "start very soon." This is a completely unprovoked and unjustified attack on a sovereign country, but Trump is desperate to distract the public from all of his failures at home - namely the economy and the Epstein files - so he's willing to put troops on the ground in a country that has shown no hostility towards the United States in any way. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.

Trump ‘Turns Up the Dial’ on Maduro, Aiming to Force Him Out of Office: Analysis

Nov 29, 2025 | Charles Samuel Shapiro, former ambassador to Venezuela and current professor of international relations at Georgia Tech, says Trump aims to dial up pressure on Maduro and force him out of the country. “

What this does is it turns up the dial, turns up the pressure on Maduro,” Shapiro told Al Jazeera. “And clearly what the United States President Trump wants is for Maduro to leave office, and that would mean he’d have to leave the country.”

Shapiro said it’s unclear what the US endgame actually is. “Trump is increasing the pressure. Will it go to military action? I can’t answer that, and I suspect that’s why the US Southern Command and Defense Department are referring all questions to the White House.”


Trump Says Venezuela Airspace to Be Shut ‘In Its Entirety’ as Tensions Rise

Nov 29, 2025 | United States President Donald Trump has said the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela is to be closed “in its entirety”, as tensions between the countries escalate. There was no immediate response by Venezuela to Trump’s social media post on Saturday. “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Friday, November 28, 2025

Trump kündigt Land-Einsätze in Venezuela an

BERLINER ZEITUNG: US-Präsident Donald Trump will den Kampf gegen den Drogenschmuggel aus Venezuela ausweiten. Nach Militäreinsätzen auf See kündigte er nun auch Maßnahmen an Land an.

US-Präsident Donald Trump hat angekündigt, venezolanische Drogenhändler „sehr bald“ auch an Land ins Visier zu nehmen. Bei einem Gespräch mit Angehörigen des US-Militärs an Thanksgiving sagte Trump, man werde neben den Einsätzen auf See jetzt auch Maßnahmen auf dem Landweg beginnen. „Sie liefern nicht mehr viel über das Meer. Also werden wir anfangen, sie auch an Land zu stoppen“, sagte der Präsident am Donnerstag » | Alexander Schmalz | Freitag, 28. November 2025

Monday, November 24, 2025

What Level of Military and Political Support Can Russia Provide to the Maduro Regime? | DW News

Nov 24, 2025 | Tensions in the Caribbean are continuing to rise as the Trump administration increases the pressure on Venezuela's left-wing authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro. Following the seizure of several Venezuelan vessels suspected of drug smuggling, the US military is increasing its presence off the coast of its Latin American neighbour. Some claim that President Trump's ultimate goal is to overthrow the Maduro regime, and that Maduro may be hoping that his traditional ally, Russia, will intervene to save him.

Saturday, November 22, 2025

Six compagnies aériennes annulent leurs liaisons avec le Venezuela après l'avertissement des États-Unis

LE FIGARO : Les États-Unis ont déployé dans les Caraïbes le plus grand porte-avions du monde, accompagné d’une flotte de navires de guerre et d’avions de chasse pour mener des opérations antidrogue.

Six compagnies aériennes ont annulé samedi leurs liaisons avec le Venezuela, après que les États-Unis ont averti l'aviation civile d'une « augmentation de l'activité militaire » dans le cadre du déploiement de forces américaines dans les Caraïbes, a indiqué à l'AFP le syndicat des compagnies aériennes. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | samedi 22 novembre 2025

«Je n’exclus pas la possibilité d’envoyer des troupes» : Donald Trump poursuit sa stratégie d’intimidation face au Venezuela

LE FIGARO : DÉCRYPTAGE - La guerre contre le narcotrafic lancée fin août par Donald Trump dans les Caraïbes s’accompagne d’une intense opération de déstabilisation contre le président vénézuélien Nicolás Maduro.

«Nous devons simplement nous occuper du Venezuela», a déclaré, sibyllin, le président des États-Unis lundi 17 octobre, dans un contexte de recrudescence des tensions avec Caracas et d’accentuation de la pression américaine sur le régime chaviste. Depuis la fin du mois d’août, la guerre lancée par Donald Trump contre le trafic de drogue dans les Caraïbes - dont les frappes menées sur des embarcations accusées sans preuves de transporter de la drogue ont fait au moins 83 morts -, s’accompagne d’une opération de déstabilisation du pouvoir tenu d’une main de fer par le président socialiste Nicolás Maduro depuis près de treize années et que Washington accuse d’être à la tête d’un cartel criminel.

«À un moment donné, je vais lui parler», a déclaré Donald Trump en début de semaine après avoir multiplié les réunions avec ses conseillers à ce sujet. «Celui qui veut parler avec le Venezuela, on parlera avec lui en tête-à-tête. Sans aucun problème», lui a répondu le leader du Parti socialiste unifié (PSUV). Au même moment, le plus grand porte-avions au monde, l’USS Gérald R. Ford, arrivait dans les Caraïbes pour rejoindre la zone d’opération de la 4e Flotte américaine dans le cadre de l’opération Southern Spear, «Lance du Sud». Ce sont désormais 15.000 soldats américains qui sont déployés dans la région, du jamais vu depuis la crise des missiles à Cuba en 1961 : une dizaine de navires, un bâtiment d’assaut amphibie et son détachement expéditionnaire de Marines, un croiseur lance-missiles, des destroyers, un sous-marin d’attaques, une escadrille de chasseurs-bombardiers F-35B... De son côté, le Venezuela mobilise ses troupes qui se tiennent prêtes. » | Par Victor Mérat |samedi 22 novembre 2025

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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

How Venezuela Is Reacting to Latest Escalatory US Rhetoric | DW News

Nov 18, 2025 | The Trump administration is ramping up the pressure on Venezeula. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US plans to designate a cartel - it claims is run by Venezuela's president - as a foreign terrorist organization.

In a statement released on Sunday, Rubio said:"...the Cartel de los Soles is headed by Nicolás Maduro and other high-ranking individuals of the illegitimate Maduro regime who have corrupted Venezuela’s military, intelligence, legislature, and judiciary. Neither Maduro nor his cronies represent Venezuela’s legitimate government."

The announcement comes as America's most advanced aircraft carrier arrives in the Caribbean Sea. The US Southern Command released this image of the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, confirming it was now there. Part of the largest build up of US firepower in the region for generations.

And over the weekend, the US military released this footage of its latest strike on an alleged drug trafficking boat - killing 3 people aboard. Since early September, such US strikes have killed at least 83 people in 21 attacks in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific.