[News] Trump orders CIA to attack Venezuela: US military kills innocent people in war based on lies
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Trump orders CIA to attack Venezuela: US military kills innocent people
in war based on lies
The USA is waging war on Venezuela. Trump authorized CIA "lethal
operations" to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. The US
military is killing innocent fishermen from Colombia and Trinidad.
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The USA is waging war on Venezuela. Trump authorized CIA "lethal
operations" to try to overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. The US
military is killing innocent fishermen from Colombia and Trinidad.
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Oct 20, 2025
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The United States is waging war on Venezuela. This is not a
hypothetical; it is happening.
The Donald Trump administration is using extreme violence to try to
overthrow Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro.
The US military has killed dozens of Venezuelans in strikes on boats in
international waters without charge or trial. UN experts have publicly
condemned these attacks as “extrajudicial executions” that violate
international law
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It is not only Venezuelans who have been executed by the US military.
Among the victims of these illegal US attacks have been fishermen who
were citizens of Colombia
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Family members of the victims, from a Trinidadian fishing village, were
interviewed by The Guardian
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and they condemned Trump for “killing poor people”, arguing that he
simply wants to take their “gas and their oil”.
In other words, the Trump administration is killing innocent people from
multiple countries as part of its war on Venezuela.
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US military threatens Venezuela with B-52 bombers
Week by week, Trump is ratcheting up the US war on Venezuela.
The US military has approximately 10,000 troops in the Caribbean, along
with eight warships and a submarine, all preparing to escalate.
The Trump administration has ordered three B-52 bombers to fly off the
coast of Venezuela, threatening to bomb the country.
ABC News published a report
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16 October, writing (all emphasis added):
In less than a week, President *Donald Trump has threatened to
attack inside Venezuela*, confirmed ongoing *covert operations
inside the country*, and *ordered bombers capable of dropping
nuclear weapons to fly in circles off its coast*in what appears to
be an unprecedented show of force intended to pressure the
Venezuelan president to step down.
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Trump orders the CIA to carry out “lethal operations” to provoke
regime change in Venezuela
Meanwhile, Trump has admitted that he has authorized the CIA to carry
out destabilization operations inside Venezuela.
The public narrative of the US government is that it is supposedly
targeting “drug traffickers”. This is not true. The real goal is regime
change.
The New York Times interviewed members of the Trump administration
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and reported, “American officials have been clear, privately, that the
end goal is to drive Mr. Maduro from power”.
Trump has ordered the CIA “to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela”,
the Times noted.
“The Trump administration’s strategy on Venezuela, developed by
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with help from John Ratcliffe, the
C.I.A. director, aims to oust Mr. Maduro from power”, the Times added.
Rubio is a lifelong neoconservative war hawk. He has spent his entire
political career pushing for regime change not only in Venezuela, but
also in Cuba and Nicaragua.
During Trump’s first term, when the US launched another coup attempt
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Rubio was not in the administration, but he lobbied Trump to invade
Venezuela
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Trump discussed his attacks on Venezuela in a press conference at the
White House
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15 October.
“Why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela?” a journalist asked
the US president.
Trump gave two excuses, falsely claiming that it is because Venezuela is
supposedly sending criminals to the US and that he wants to stop “drug
trafficking”. Both allegations are not true. They are demonstrable lies
that the Trump administration is using to try to justify a war of
aggression.
The journalist then asked Trump, “Does the CIA have authority to take
out Maduro?”
The US president replied, “Oh, I don’t want to answer a question like
that. That’s a ridiculous question for me to be given. Not really a
ridiculous question, but wouldn’t it be a ridiculous question for me to
answer? But I think Venezuela is feeling heat”.
The CIA’s history of terrorism and coups in Latin America
The CIA has carried out myriad crimes against humanity in Latin America.
The US spy agency has armed and trained death squads
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have burnt down schools and hospitals and tortured and massacred
civilians, like the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s.
The CIA has also committed war crimes directly. The CIA put mines in
Nicaragua’s ports in the 1980s, in a flagrant violation of international
law.
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Nicaragua took the United States to the International Court of Justice
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the UN’s top judicial authority, in 1984, and it won the case in 1986.
The Hague ruled in support of the people of Nicaragua, determining that
the US government, and specifically the CIA, had violated international
law in its attacks on Nicaraguan civilian targets.
However, Washington ignored the ICJ ruling and vetoed a UN Security
Council resolution that demanded it be respected.
To this day, the US rogue regime refuses to pay the reparations that it
legally owes to Nicaragua.
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The CIA has also sponsored dozens of coups d’etat against democratically
elected left-wing leaders in Latin America.
In 1954, the CIA overthrew Guatemala’s democratically elected President
Jacobo Árbenz
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behalf of US corporation the United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita).
Then, on 11 September 1973, the CIA toppled Chile’s democratically
elected socialist President Salvador Allende, and put in power the
fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet, who killed thousands of people and
maintained an iron grip on power for nearly two decades.
Trump is now clearly giving the CIA a green light to try to do the same
in Venezuela, to overthrow the leftist Chavista government of President
Maduro and install a right-wing puppet regime that will privatize the
country’s massive oil and gold reserves and other natural resources and
sell them off to US corporations.
Trump lies about “drug trafficking” to push regime change
The false narrative that the Trump administration is using is that it is
attacking Venezuela supposedly in order to stop the “flow of drugs” into
the US. This is a lie that has been debunked by multiple sources.
The Financial Times published a lengthy report
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citing US officials and Venezuelan opposition figures who have been
working closely with the Trump administration, and they admitted that
the real goal is regime change.
The US government’s priority “is to force the departure of top
Venezuelan government figures, preferably via resignation or an arranged
handover — but with the clear threat that if Maduro and his inner circle
cling to power, the Americans may use targeted military force to capture
or kill them”, the FT wrote.
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The Trump administration’s unsubstantiated accusations that Venezuela is
a major center of drug production are clearly contradicted by the data
compiled by UN experts.
Venezuela is not a major source of drugs, nor is it a key transit country.
According to 2022 data from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC), 65% of the cocaine in the world is produced in Colombia, which
has historically been the closest US ally in Latin America and has been
dominated by right-wing, pro-US politicians linked to cartels
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Peru is the second-largest source of cocaine, providing 27% of the
global total, followed by Bolivia at 8%. Venezuela’s role is so minor it
is insignificant.
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US government-funded coup leader María Corina Machado pledged to
privatize Venezuela’s oil
The Financial Times noted, “At stake in Venezuela are the world’s
largest proven oil reserves and valuable deposits of gold, diamonds and
coltan”.
The FT cited an anonymous “American businessman with interests in the
country” who revealed, “What Trump wants in Venezuela is oil, minerals
and gold… He wants US companies down there investing”.
Far-right Venezuelan coup leader María Corina Machado
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openly called for privatizing her country’s natural resources and
handing them over to US corporations.
Machado, who has been funded by the US government for more than 20
years, was awarded a so-called “Nobel Peace Prize” due to her violent,
US-sponsored regime-change efforts.
In an interview with Donald Trump Jr.
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February, Machado declared (emphasis added):
Forget about Saudi Arabia; forget about the Saudis. I mean, we have
more oil, I mean, infinite potential.
And *we’re going to open markets. We’re going to kick [out] the
government from the oil sector. We’re going to privatize all our
industry.*
Venezuela has huge resources: oil, gas, minerals, land, technology.
And, as you said before, we have a strategic location, you know,
hours from the United States.
So we’re going to do this right. We know what we have to do.
…
And *American companies are in*, you know, *a super strategic
position to invest*.
…
This country, Venezuela, is going to be the *brightest opportunity
for investment of American companies*, of good people that *are
going to make a lot of money*.
Even CNN and ex Biden officials are skeptical of Trump’s “drug
trafficking” lies about Venezuela
Immediately after the US government-funded extremist María Corina
Machado won the so-called “Nobel Peace Prize”, she was interviewed by CNN.
Machado proudly stated that she supports Trump and the murderous war he
is waging against her country. In fact, she called for further military
escalation.
“We totally support it”, Machado said, in reference to the US military
attacks in the Caribbean.
“Actually, we’re asking other countries in the Caribbean, in Latin
America and Europe, to join that international coalition” for war on
Venezuela, added the so-called “Nobel Peace Prize” laureate.
CNN is normally a loyal mouthpiece for the US State Department. The
corporate network has supported every major US war of aggression,
against Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Yugoslavia, and beyond.
However, because CNN is an anti-Trump media outlet, it has been willing
to challenge some of the administration’s blatant lies about Venezuela.
In fact, CNN drew parallels
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Trump’s false claims about Venezuela and the fraudulent allegations that
the George W. Bush administration fabricated in order to justify its
illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 (which CNN had supported at the time).
The Bush administration’s CIA created false intelligence claiming that
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction”, or WMDs.
This was not true.
Today, the Trump administration is falsely claiming that the Venezuelan
government is run by drug cartels. This is totally preposterous and is
not supported by any evidence.
In her interview
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US government-funded Venezuelan coup plotter María Corina Machado, CNN
host Christiane Amanpour pushed back
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these false claims.
Amanpour cited a previous interview she did with Juan Sebastián
González, who helped oversee US policy toward Latin America in the Joe
Biden administration, as the senior director of the National Security
Council for the Western Hemisphere.
González admitted that Venezuela is not a major producer of drugs.
This is what this top Biden administration official told CNN:
The reason that drugs have never originated from Venezuela — in the
way that they originate from Colombia, over 95% of the cocaine that
comes to United States comes from Colombia — is because Venezuela
has one of the largest oil reserves in the world; they have the
largest gold reserves in Latin America.
So there has never been a need for them to develop a native
drug-producing industry.
In her CNN interview with Machado, Amanpour noted that, “when people
look at what’s going on, they say, OK, they [the Trump administration]
have used the drug issue to justify getting rid of Maduro, like they
used the non-existent WMD issue to get rid of Saddam Hussein in Iraq”.
“So are you, I guess what I’m asking you is, are you concerned about
that?” Amanpour asked.
Machado, the US government-funded coup plotter and staunch supporter of
Trump, shot back, “I totally disagree”. She cited baseless claims that
the FBI made during Trump’s first administration that, supposedly, “24%
of the world trade of cocaine goes through Venezuela”.
This politically motivated accusation by Trump’s FBI has been blatantly
contradicted by the data published by independent international experts
at the United Nations.
Trump’s lies about Venezuela are so transparent that even CNN and former
Biden administration officials are willing to call them out. But their
obvious fraudulence is not stopping the US government from escalating
its war of aggression in the Caribbean.
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