{"id":117524,"date":"2025-08-29T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117524\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:14:09","slug":"venezuelas-maduro-says-no-way-us-can-invade-as-trump-deploys-naval-force-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117524\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Maduro says \u2018no way\u2019 US can invade as Trump deploys naval force | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says ready to defend \u2018sovereignty\u2019 as US military deploys warships near country\u2019s territorial waters.<\/p>\n

Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025<\/p>\n

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said there was \u201cno way\u201d United States troops could invade his country<\/a> as tension rises with Washington and a US naval force builds up<\/a> in the Southern Caribbean near Venezuela\u2019s territorial waters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no way they can enter Venezuela,\u201d Maduro said on Thursday, stating that his country was well prepared to defend its sovereignty as US warships arrive in the region in a so-called operation against Latin American drug cartels.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we are stronger than yesterday. Today, we are more prepared to defend peace, sovereignty and territorial integrity,\u201d Maduro said in a speech to troops<\/a>, according to the state-run Venezuela News Agency.<\/p>\n

Maduro made his comment as Venezuela\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations, Samuel Moncada, met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to protest the US military build-up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a massive propaganda operation to justify what the experts call kinetic action \u2013 meaning military intervention in a country which is a sovereign and independent country and is no threat to anyone,\u201d Moncada told reporters after meeting with Guterres.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are saying that they are sending a nuclear submarine \u2026 I mean, it\u2019s ridiculous to think that they\u2019re fighting drug trafficking with nuclear submarines,\u201d the ambassador said.<\/p>\n

\"ThisVenezuela\u2019s President Nicolas Maduro, centre, giving a thumbs up next to Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, left, and First Lady Cilia Flores, right, as they watch military exercises at a training camp in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday [Handout\/Venezuelan Presidency via AFP]<\/p>\n

Earlier on Thursday, Admiral Daryl Claude, the US Navy\u2019s chief of naval operations, confirmed that US warships were deployed to waters off South America, citing concerns that some Venezuelans were participating in large-scale drug operations.<\/p>\n

Seven US warships, along with one nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, were either in the region or were expected to be there in the coming week, a US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n

More than 4,500 US service members, including some 2,200 Marines, were also reported to be on board the ships in an operation that was launched after the Trump administration accused Maduro and other members of his government of links to cocaine trafficking.<\/p>\n

Venezuela has responded to the US threats by sending warships and drones to patrol its coastline and launching a drive to recruit thousands<\/a> of militia members to bolster domestic defences.<\/p>\n

Caracas has also deployed 15,000 troops to its borders with Colombia to crack down on drug trafficking and other criminal gangs.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Maduro thanked Colombia for sending an additional 25,000 military personnel to the Colombia-Venezuela frontier to tackle \u201cnarco-terrorist gangs\u201d, the Venezuela News Agency reported.<\/p>\n

While the US has made no public threats to invade Venezuela, Trump\u2019s threats against the country have focused chiefly on its powerful criminal gangs, particularly the cocaine trafficking Cartel de los Soles, which the Trump administration has designated a terrorist organisation and accused Maduro of leading.<\/p>\n

Maduro has, in turn, accused Washington, which is offering a $50m reward for his capture over alleged drug offences, of seeking to implement regime change in Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro says ready to defend \u2018sovereignty\u2019 as US military deploys warships near country\u2019s territorial waters.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,27459,3071,12,2605,3140,4379,3,18231,111,21,19,22,20,25,1209,24,18232],"class_list":{"0":"post-117524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-colombia","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-drugs","13":"tag-latin-america","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nicolas-maduro","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-canada","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}