The dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and other members of his regime expressed despair this Wednesday (15) due to the news that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, authorized the country’s intelligence agency (CIA) to carry out operations in Venezuela. Chavismo even promised to take the matter to international judicial bodies.
It all started when a report from The New York Times revealed that the Trump administration gave new authorization that would allow the CIA to carry out “lethal” operations in Venezuela and conduct a series of actions in the Caribbean.
Hours later, at a press conference, Trump confirmed that he authorized the agency’s actions in the South American country “for two reasons”.
“First, they [Venezuela] emptied their prisons in the United States of America [enviando migrantes]”, he stated, reiterating an accusation that the Republican has made since the 2024 presidential campaign.
“And the other thing is drugs. We have a lot of drugs coming from Venezuela, and many of the Venezuelan drugs arrive by sea, so you can see that, but we are going to stop them from arriving by land as well”, added Trump, in reference to the United States attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea, under the argument that they are transporting drugs from Venezuelan gangs, an attack that has already killed 27 drug traffickers, according to the White House.
This Wednesday, Maduro spoke about the subject in statements broadcast by state broadcaster VTV.
“No to CIA coups d’état! How long will there be CIA coups d’état? Latin America doesn’t want them, doesn’t need them and repudiates them”, stated the dictator.
The Chavista leader called for “the truth about Venezuela” to be taken to “all social, cultural, political and economic sectors of American society to say no to war in the Caribbean, no to war in South America.”
The president of the Venezuelan Parliament, the Chavista Jorge Rodríguez, announced this Wednesday that the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace will promote the “establishment of criminal responsibility” against the United States for its “threats and aggressions”.
Rodríguez explained that this petition will be forwarded to the Venezuelan Public Ministry and international judicial bodies and is part of a series of actions by the council, established last September in response to the United States military deployment in the Caribbean Sea.
The council will also organize an international congress of jurists and academics in the country in the name of the “right to peace”, with the participation of international experts who “will denounce the violation of international law and basic human rights that is being promoted by the crude empire of the North against the entire population of Venezuela”.
In a statement, the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it will report the issue of promised CIA operations in the country to the UN Security Council this Thursday (16).
“This statement [dos EUA] unprecedented constitutes a very serious violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, and obliges the community of countries to denounce these clearly immoderate and inconceivable statements,” said the ministry.
“Tomorrow, our Permanent Mission to the UN will take this complaint to the Security Council and the Secretary-General [António Guterres]demanding accountability from the United States government and the adoption of urgent measures to avoid a military escalation in the Caribbean, an area declared a zone of peace by Celac [Comunidade de Estados Latino-Americanos e Caribenhos] in 2014”, added the ministry.
Maduro goes from challenge to attempt at dialogue
Since the Trump administration began a military operation in the Caribbean Sea at the end of August, sending warships to the region and later F-35 fighters to an airfield in Puerto Rico, Maduro has been oscillating between challenging Washington and seeking rapprochement.
At the beginning of September, the dictator sent a letter with a proposal for dialogue to the American president, in which he claimed to have no links with drug trafficking, and also offered “help” in the capture of leaders of the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua.
Furthermore, last week, Rodríguez said that the Chavista regime notified the United States government of an alleged plan for a false flag operation in which “lethal explosives” would be placed at the American embassy in Caracas.
Last Friday (10), the New York Times published a report that pointed out that Maduro had offered to open all current and future oil and gold projects to American companies, grant preferential contracts to US companies, direct the flow of Venezuelan oil exports to China to the United States and cancel the country’s energy and mining contracts with Chinese and Iranian companies. and Russians.
For now, this openness does not seem to move Trump. In September, White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the American president received the letter sent by Maduro at the beginning of last month, but said that sending the message does not change the United States’ position vis-à-vis the Chavista regime.
The spokeswoman recalled that Washington considers “the Maduro regime to be illegitimate, and President Trump has clearly demonstrated his willingness to use all necessary means to stop the illegal trafficking of lethal drugs from the Venezuelan regime to the United States.”
Another sign is that, last week, Trump ordered the end of negotiations led by special envoy Richard Grenell with the Maduro regime.
Without being able to negotiate, the Chavista dictatorship has been increasing military mobilizations. A week ago, the Maduro regime announced that it had activated the Independence 200 Plan, the first phase of which includes “verifications” and “activities” aimed at achieving “very clear objectives” in institutions, organizations and public services, such as airports and ports, in the regions of La Guaira and Carabobo.
At the launch of the plan, in early September, the dictator had reported that Independence 200 would have the participation of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (Fanb) and the Combatant Corps of the Bolivarian National Militia on 284 battle fronts, in order to guarantee, according to him, “the independence and peace” of the country.
Today, Maduro announced a new stage of the plan, in which starting this Thursday the defense will be reinforced in the states of Táchira, Apure and Amazonas, on the border with Colombia, for the “integral defense” of Venezuela.
It seems very little, however, to stop the greatest military power in the world – if it is really willing to use total force against Chavismo.
