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The American president is moving in two directions: the threat of a possible intervention in Venezuela, but also the diplomatic path to save many lives.
The time for an American attack on Venezuela may be near, or at least that's what US President Donald Trump has hinted at with his latest statement.
"All airlines, pilots, distributors and human traffickers, please consider the airspace over and around Venezuela as closed ," he announced.
On Thursday, November 27, Thanksgiving Day, he told reporters that ground attacks on Venezuela “will begin very soon.” The White House chief of staff has also authorized covert CIA operations in the South American country.
Several airlines have already suspended flights to Venezuela after the US Federal Aviation Administration last week warned of a dangerous situation due to deteriorating security and increased military activity in the area. The civil aviation authority in Caracas responded by revoking the permits of Iberia, Tap, Avianca, Latam, Gol and Turkish Airlines.
Meanwhile, controversy is growing over the missile attacks at sea, which have killed more than 80 people since August. The Washington Post reported that Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth had ordered units to attack suspected drug trafficking ships off the coast of Venezuela.
One source said that "the order was to kill every man."
On September 2, two attacks were made one after the other to accomplish the mission, killing all 11 people on board, including the two survivors of the first attack.
Hegseth denied this, calling it fake news, but then wrote himself on "X": We just started killing narcoterrorists!
Trump also praised the Armed Forces, saying that the second phase of the operation is ready.
"You are the backbone of American air power and in recent weeks you have worked to stop Venezuelan drug traffickers. Now they no longer want to send goods by sea, and we will stop them on land too!", he said a few days ago.
The US president is moving in two directions: the threat of a possible intervention in Venezuela, but also the diplomatic path to save many lives. The ultimate goal, according to most analysts, is regime change in Caracas.
The New York Times reported that Trump last week spoke with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro about the possibility of a personal meeting in the U.S. A few days later, the State Department declared Maduro the head of a cartel.
The war on drugs in Latin America is not without paradoxes.
Trump has announced that he wants to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced in 2024 to 45 years in prison in Manhattan for taking bribes from the Sinaloa drug cartel, specifically Joaquín Guzmán, known as El Chapo. The news, released just hours after his conversation with Maduro, raises the possibility that the Venezuelan leader has been promised a similar path out: resignation, prosecution, a few years in prison in the US and then a pardon.
Today, November 30, presidential elections will be held in Honduras, and just like in the recent elections in Argentina, Trump has attempted to influence the vote, supporting Tito Asfura from the (right-wing) National Party and accusing opponents of being controlled by Caracas.
"Maduro and his narco-terrorists will take control of another country after Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela?!" he wrote on TruthSocial./Taken from Corriere Della Sera
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