Venezuelan president said Trump authorised CIA to conduct covert operations in his country
發佈日期: 2025-10-17 21:00
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro appeared on state television responding to confirmation that US President Donald Trump authorised the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela. The Trump administration said it is targeting criminal groups involved in drug trafficking and other illicit enterprises.
But scholars say Trump's use of military force to combat such groups inside Venezuela stretches the bounds of internationals law.
Speaking on state television, Venezuelan President Maduro said: Can anyone believe that the CIA has not been operating in Venezuela for 60 years? Can anyone believe that the CIA has not been conspiring for 26 years against Commander Hugo Chavez and against me?
The Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. Samuel Moncada also condemned a recent US strike on a small boat in Caribbean waters that killed six people.
"The Guardian newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago denouncing the killings of two humble fishermen yesterday or the day before in Trinidad," said Moncada. "I mean there is a killer roaming around the Caribbean (who) is bloodthirsty, is killing everyone which is on the sea working and people from different countries, Colombia, Trinidad, etc are suffering the effects of these massacres."
He went on to ask the United Nations Security Council to investigate the US for their activity in the region.
"We respectfully ask the Council to first, investigate the series of assassinations that the government of the United States of America has been perpetrated in our region and determine their illegal nature," he said. "Second, confirm the threat that these illegal actions pose to the preservation of the zone of peace character of the Latin American and Caribbean region, including, as a result of the extrajudicial executions; the concentration of the US military forces near the Venezuelan coast.
When asked about his next step in the war on cartels, the US president said they were looking at land strikes.
"We are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control," said Trump. "We've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found."
