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Maduro Rails at ‘Illegal’ US Deployment Off Venezuela

The U.S. has deployed three guided missile destroyers and is preparing to send 4,000 Marines near Venezuelan waters amid accusations of drug trafficking against President Maduro.

  • On August 23, 2025, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro condemned the deployment of three U.S. warships off Venezuela's coast as an illegal attempt at regime change.
  • This deployment followed the Trump administration doubling the bounty on Maduro to $50 million for alleged drug trafficking linked to the Cartel de los Soles.
  • The warships, part of an amphibious squadron, carry 4,500 U.S. service members including 2,200 Marines as part of broader military repositioning in the Caribbean to counter narco-terrorist threats.
  • Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and the ALBA-TCP alliance denounced U.S. actions, calling them violations of international law and a threat to regional peace and sovereignty.
  • Maduro vowed to mobilize over 4 million militia fighters and urged Latin American nations to defend sovereignty, underscoring heightened tensions and possible regional destabilization.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Friday denounced the recent U.S. military deployment in Caribbean waters, calling it an "immoral, criminal, and illegal" plan aimed at bringing about regime change in his country.

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Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, accused the United States on Friday of seeking a “change of regime” in a “terrorist, military” way, before the White House’s approach of sending ships to the Caribbean Sea, close to Venezuelan waters, to combat drug trafficking. “What threatens to do against Venezuela, a regime change, a terrorist, military outpost, is immoral, criminal and illegal,” the president said in an act from the headquarters of the…

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Trinidad Express Newspapers broke the news in on Friday, August 22, 2025.
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