The board is set, the pieces are moving – and Maduro is scared.
With US Navy Warships laying siege off the coast of Venezuela, the ‘Tyrant of Caracas’, Nicolas Maduro, is vowing resistance – but the frantic pace of his manifestations show that he is afraid – as he should be.
Maduro convened a press conference to state that the US is seeking a regime change in his country.
As the US vows to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, Maduro knows he is in the line of fire.
Reuters reported:
“But Maduro, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello and other officials have said the U.S. is threatening their country and the buildup is meant to justify an intervention against them.
‘They are seeking a regime change through military threat’, Maduro told journalists, officials and uniformed military brass in Caracas, echoing comments last week by his government’s representative at the United Nations.
‘Venezuela is confronting the biggest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years’, Maduro added. ‘A situation like this has never been seen’.”
The US DOJ has doubled its reward ‘for information leading to Maduro’s arrest’ to a whopping $50 million, alleging that he is a drug trafficker and head of a criminal cartel.
Associated Press reported:
“Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he ‘would constitutionally declare a republic in arms’ if the South American country were attacked by forces that the United States government has deployed to the Caribbean.
[…] ‘In the face of this maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum preparedness for the defense of Venezuela’, Maduro said of the deployment, which he characterized as ‘an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat’.”
The U.S. Navy now has two Aegis guided-missile destroyers — the USS Gravely and the USS Jason Dunham — in the Caribbean, as well as the destroyer USS Sampson and the cruiser USS Lake Erie in the waters off Latin America. That military presence is set to expand.
Three amphibious assault ships — a force that encompasses more than 4,000 sailors and Marines — would be entering the region this week, a defense official told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to describe ongoing operations.
Watch – Maduro to Trump: ‘Be careful…Marco Rubio wants to stain your hands with blood’.
Maduro’s CHILLING warning for Donald Trump:
‘Be careful…Marco Rubio wants to stain your hands with BLOOD’
Rubio has pushed for regime change in Caracas before – now Maduro says he’s leading Trump into a ‘BLOODBATH’ https://t.co/tENsRWQY9h pic.twitter.com/mhpo42ckzN
— RT (@RT_com) September 1, 2025
“Maduro on Monday, however, warned that U.S. military action against Venezuela would ‘stain’ Trump’s ‘hands with blood’.
“President Donald Trump, the pursuit of regime change is exhausted; it has failed as a policy worldwide,” Maduro said. ‘You cannot pretend to impose a situation in Venezuela’.”
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