Caracas angered by CIA clearance to target Venezuela

Thursday, October 16th 2025 - 10:16 UTC

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Maduro's government said a complaint would be filed at the UN

After The New York Times revealed that US President Donald Trump authorized the CIA to carry out covert actions in Venezuela, the Bolivarian regime in Caracas issued a fierce response.

“How long will the CIA's coups d'état continue?” wondered President Nicolás Maduro, who linked this news to past South American coups and denounced the policy as a pursuit of “regime change.”

Additionally, the Chavista government expressed “extreme alarm”, calling the authorization a “very serious violation of international law and the United Nations Charter” and a risk to regional stability.

Caracas asserted that the ultimate goal of the policy is to “appropriate Venezuelan oil resources” and warned that the US is also attempting to “stigmatize Venezuelan and Latin American migration.”

Maduro's administration announced it would file a complaint with the UN Security Council and the Secretary-General, demanding accountability and urgent measures to prevent military escalation in the Caribbean, which was declared a zone of peace in 2014.

Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodríguez warned that military aggression against the country, which holds the largest oil reserves on the planet, would severely impact the “international energy formula.”

The CIA was cleared to conduct covert and potentially lethal operations against Venezuela, either unilaterally or as part of a broader deployment. This authorization came while Washington stationed 10,000 troops (mostly in Puerto Rico), along with eight warships and one submarine, in the Caribbean.

Categories: Politics, Venezuela.

Tags: CIA, Donald Trump, Nicolas Maduro.

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Esteban Domingo Fernandez
Bras, If the US wanted to take out the dictator Maduro they could quite easily, and their is nothing that anyone could do about it, i dont see you condemn China for annexing Tibet or killing the Chinese Muslims, or when Putin used chemical weapons in Syria or bombing Ukraine Schools and homes, grow up for goodness sake ,almost every post full of hate,
Oct 17th, 2025 - 01:38 pm 0
imoyaro
Brasso is all for murder as long as he “hates” whoever is being killed. He is still reveling in the godless republic's murdering of children at Canudos, isn't that right, Brasso?
Oct 18th, 2025 - 03:46 pm 0
Brasileiro
What's new? The CIA has been carrying out, or attempting, decapitation attacks in Venezuela since 1999. It's never been successful. What leads you to believe it would work this time?

Interestingly, Colombia and Venezuela were the places where the most US agents were killed in the 21st century. It looks like that number will increase.
Oct 17th, 2025 - 08:48 am -2

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