[News] Venezuela Denounces US Spy Flights, Says Reconnaissance Missions Have Tripled

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Venezuela Denounces US Spy Flights, Says Reconnaissance Missions Have
Tripled (+Guyana & Trinidad)September 15, 2025
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[image: A USAF E-3 Sentry. An airborne warning and control system aircraft
that provides all-weather surveillance, command, control, and
communications needed by commanders of US and NATO. Photo: USAF/File photo.]

A USAF E-3 Sentry. An airborne warning and control system aircraft that
provides all-weather surveillance, command, control, and communications
needed by commanders of US and NATO. Photo: USAF/File photo.

Venezuelan Defense Minister General Vladimir Padrino reported Sunday that
the United States carries out intelligence flights against the country and
provided details about the types of aircraft it frequently flies in the
Caribbean, noting they have tripled in recent weeks. He asserted that
Venezuela “is prepared for each flight and also conducts intelligence for
its defense.”

General Padrino described the types of aircraft being piloted over the
Caribbean on a mission he described as “very provocative,” one that seeks
to create an incident to ignite war in the Caribbean.

The top Venezuelan commander explained that intelligence operations have
always been carried out by US military aircraft and that operations have
always taken place in the Caribbean. “There, they cross our flight
information region, sometimes violating operational regulations because
they don’t give notification of their flight plans, which can even cause
plane crashes in the north of our Caribbean territory,” revealed Padrino.
“This has always happened; what’s happening is that now they do it at night
or in the early morning, and in August, intelligence operations,
reconnaissance operations, and reconnaissance against the country tripled,”
he said.

In September, it happened every day. Last night, it was intelligence
aircraft, which require a lot of fuel to orbit and acquire signals. They
are RC-135 aircraft that perform strategic intelligence reconnaissance
designed to collect and process information in real time, up to 200
miles—meaning their range extends into Venezuelan territory—using advanced
intelligence, electronic, radar and signal systems, and reaching a maximum
speed of 951 km/h.

Another aircraft that passes through Venezuelan territory is the Boeing
KC-135, a tanker aircraft that refuels in flight. One that frequently
passes over the Caribbean near the Venezuelan coast is the E-3 Sentry
AWACS. This is an airborne warning and control system, an airborne command
post that allows simultaneous command of several aircraft. It is equipped
with a long-range rotating radar capable of conducting air and surface
surveillance, among other capabilities.

Padrino named other aircraft that frequently fly over the Caribbean and
warned that these are planes conducting intelligence gathering, “and we
know it. They will know their goals; however we are conducting our internal
intelligence processes too, integrating all available information,” he
added.

Padrino warned that Venezuela is prepared for every flight. “We have an
action, individually, that is, a weapons system, or collectively. But we
know what they’re doing. We know the deployment they have in the Caribbean
Sea,” he warned.

The defense minister warned that this deployment in the Caribbean Sea is
intended to generate a war that “we Venezuelans, the peoples of the
Caribbean, the peoples of Central America and Latin America do not want. We
are a Zone of Peace, clearly established by CELAC in 2014, which was also
masterfully conceived, free from the use of atomic weapons.”

We have seen this deployment, which has a “very provocative” mission that,
in his judgement, is looking for an incident to generate a war in the
Caribbean. They are trying to get us to fall into their provocation game
and allow them to escalate—with legitimacy in their view—the military
conflict and produce the aggression they have been announcing for over a
month, a military aggression being the most dangerous form of aggression
against a nation, and with the goal of regime change.


*Warning for Guyana and Trinidad *During his statements, the Venezuelan top
military commander sent a clear message to the governments of Guyana and
Trinidad & Tobago, warning them not to allow the use of their territory for
US military aggression against Venezuela, as they will receive a direct
response invoking self-defense.

“I say to these governments to whom the United States sent a drafted
*communiqué*—I mean the governments of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana
and the government of Trinidad and Tobago, who have played along—I say to
you that if they attack us from your territory, you will also receive a
response—a response, and that in legitimate defense. You already know what
our profile is regarding respect for the sovereignty of peoples. You
already know what our profile is regarding respect for human rights. You
know what our profile is regarding respect for international law. You know
what our profile is regarding respect for the self-determination of
peoples. And you know what our profile is regarding national independence,”
Minister Padrino said.

(Últimas Noticias
<https://ultimasnoticias.com.ve/politica/padrino-a-eeuu-sabemos-lo-que-estan-haciendo-y-estamos-preparados/>)
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