US INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA WOULD BE ‘POLITICAL END’ FOR TRUMP: MADURO

Wed 19 November 2025:

Venezuela’s president cautioned on Monday that any U.S. military incursion into his nation would spell the “political end” of Donald Trump’s leadership.

Since August, when Trump directed a US military buildup in the Caribbean to dismantle drug cartels and disrupt narcotics smuggling networks associated with Maduro, frictions between the United States and Venezuela have intensified.

In a televised appearance Monday, Nicolas Maduro claimed that circles around Trump are “provoking” an armed action that, according to him, would lead Trump “to a cliff.”

He said that there was “an effort by powerful sectors in the US to destroy Trump” using Venezuela.

“They want President Trump to make the most serious mistake of his entire life and set himself militarily against Venezuela, which would be the political end of his leadership and name, and he is being pressured and provoked,” Maduro said.

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This “provocation,” he continued, “comes from his adversaries and known enemies … but also from people around him that are making calculations over the post-Trump era and it doesn’t matter if they cause him harm.”

Maduro said that he had no knowledge of who those enemies could be, and admitted that “if he knew, he wouldn’t say who it was.”

The president also said Venezuela is ready for “face-to-face” dialogue with Washington, reiterating that diplomacy and the search for “communal points” continue to be the “invariable” position of his government.

Maduro said it has been “16 weeks of threats, of psychological aggression and of stalking,” which has “awakened a Bolivarian National Armed Force revitalized and deployed, a Bolivarian Militia expanded and better trained, and a community that, with serenity, assumes its plans and supports its military.”

Trump said on Sunday that “there could be discussions” with Maduro, “because Venezuela wants to talk,” though he later indicated that a determination had been made on what measures to take in relation to the Caribbean country, without giving more details.

On Sunday, the US State Department announced that it will designate, as of Nov. 24, as a foreign terrorist organization the Cartel de los Soles, a group that Washington links to Maduro. Venezuela has dismissed the statement as “an invention.”

Caracas insists that the true objective is regime change. In the interim, American forces have executed 21 airstrikes on ships they identified as drug-laden, resulting in 83 deaths, while Trump has hinted at the possibility of ground assaults on suspected trafficking sites inside Venezuela.

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