Venezuela's Maduro Deploying 4.5 Million Militia In Response To "Outlandish Threats" By U.S.

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CBS/AFP
August 19, 2025


Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to "outlandish threats" by the United States after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest to $50 million and launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean.

"This week, I will activate a special plan with more than 4.5 million militiamen to ensure coverage of the entire national territory — militias that are prepared, activated and armed," Maduro announced on state television.

Official figures say the Venezuelan militia, founded by Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez, contains about 5 million people — though the actual number is believed to be smaller.

Venezuela's total population is around 30 million.

Maduro lambasted "the renewal of extravagant, bizarre and outlandish threats" from the U.S.

"We are also deployed throughout the Caribbean ... in our sea, our property, Venezuelan territory," Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said.

The administration of President Trump earlier this month doubled its bounty to $50 million for the arrest of Maduro, who faces drug trafficking charges.

Washington, which does not recognize Maduro's past two election victories, accuses the Venezuelan of leading a cocaine trafficking gang called Cartel de los Soles. The Trump administration announced sanctions against the group and Maduro's administration last month.


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Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro says he's deploying 4.5 million militia members in response to "outlandish threats" by U.S.

The U.S. military has also reportedly deployed several vessels to the southern Caribbean, as part of President Trump's crackdown on Latin American drug cartels.

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Donald Trump Deploys 3 Missile Destroyers​

By Gabe Whisnant
Aug 19, 2025


The United States is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to waters off Venezuela as part of President Donald Trump's effort to counter Latin American drug cartels, according to a U.S. official briefed on the planning.

The USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson are expected to arrive in the region soon, said the official, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity Tuesday because they were not authorized to comment. Later Tuesday, a White House spokesperson confirmed the deployment to Newsweek via email.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to a question about the reported deployment during Tuesday's press briefing, saying, in part, "The president is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice. The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government—it is a Nacro terror cartel."

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Trump has also pressed Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to take a tougher stance against cartels than her predecessor. But Sheinbaum has drawn a sharp boundary on Mexico's sovereignty, rejecting proposals from Trump and others that involve U.S. military intervention.


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Donald Trump deploys 3 missile destroyers: what to know

The USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson are expected to arrive in South America soon.

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[PAF]

Epstein Files

After Gaza, Yemen, Syria, etc al, Venezuela, Mexico, et al, who's next??? We still got 3 more years!

 

[Madison320]

CBS/AFP
August 19, 2025


Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to "outlandish threats" by the United States after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest to $50 million and launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean.

"This week, I will activate a special plan with more than 4.5 million militiamen to ensure coverage of the entire national territory — militias that are prepared, activated and armed," Maduro announced on state television.

Official figures say the Venezuelan militia, founded by Maduro's predecessor Hugo Chavez, contains about 5 million people — though the actual number is believed to be smaller.

Venezuela's total population is around 30 million.

Maduro lambasted "the renewal of extravagant, bizarre and outlandish threats" from the U.S.

"We are also deployed throughout the Caribbean ... in our sea, our property, Venezuelan territory," Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said.

The administration of President Trump earlier this month doubled its bounty to $50 million for the arrest of Maduro, who faces drug trafficking charges.

Washington, which does not recognize Maduro's past two election victories, accuses the Venezuelan of leading a cocaine trafficking gang called Cartel de los Soles. The Trump administration announced sanctions against the group and Maduro's administration last month.


More here:

Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro says he's deploying 4.5 million militia members in response to "outlandish threats" by U.S.

The U.S. military has also reportedly deployed several vessels to the southern Caribbean, as part of President Trump's crackdown on Latin American drug cartels.

www.cbsnews.com

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Donald Trump Deploys 3 Missile Destroyers​

By Gabe Whisnant
Aug 19, 2025


The United States is deploying three Aegis guided-missile destroyers to waters off Venezuela as part of President Donald Trump's effort to counter Latin American drug cartels, according to a U.S. official briefed on the planning.

The USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson are expected to arrive in the region soon, said the official, who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity Tuesday because they were not authorized to comment. Later Tuesday, a White House spokesperson confirmed the deployment to Newsweek via email.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to a question about the reported deployment during Tuesday's press briefing, saying, in part, "The president is prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice. The Maduro regime is not the legitimate government—it is a Nacro terror cartel."

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Trump has also pressed Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to take a tougher stance against cartels than her predecessor. But Sheinbaum has drawn a sharp boundary on Mexico's sovereignty, rejecting proposals from Trump and others that involve U.S. military intervention.


More here:

Donald Trump deploys 3 missile destroyers: what to know

The USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson are expected to arrive in South America soon.

www.newsweek.com

Chavez and Maduro are total scumbags that wrecked one of the most prosperous countries in Central and South America, but it doesn't matter. We should stay out of other countries business. We don't need to be making more enemies in the Americas. That's always been something in our favor. We haven't been at war with our neighbors.

 

[PAF]

August 20, 2025

President Trump's foreign policy is turning out to be just as militaristic and interventionist as his predecessors. Promising "America first," his saber-rattling from Venezuela to Ukraine and blind support for Israel are anything but.

 

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Chavez and Maduro are total scumbags that wrecked one of the most prosperous countries in Central and South America, but it doesn't matter. We should stay out of other countries business. We don't need to be making more enemies in the Americas. That's always been something in our favor. We haven't been at war with our neighbors.

Just because you aren't interested in war against neighboring countries doesn't mean that your neighboring countries are interested in peace with your country.

The dictatorship in Venezuela constitute an act of war.

They are aligned against us geopolitically and represent a threat to our interests as a cancer that is spreading even into our region.

They are threatening regional stability because their regime is demographically unstable because millions of working age people have fled the country to escape communism.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure when it comes to cancer.

 

[Snowball]

Trump is in talks with France, Canada, Ecuador and Mexico to join his war against Venezuela.
Colombia has already sent troops and is ready to join any war on side of Maduro.
Maduro has called on the Global South to help him defeat imperialist aggression.
Mexico denies Trump claims that Maduro is a narco boss.

President Maduro Addresses the World Over the U.S. Military Threat

He called an international press conference to take a position on the U.S. military deployment off the Venezuelan coast.
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference with representatives of international and national media in which he analyzed the current geopolitical situation in the Caribbean.

“There are still those who want to impose supremacism and view us from afar as we did in the era of colonization,” Maduro said, questioning the patterns of international domination.

“The heirs of the old colonialisms and supremacisms hold power and still view our nations with contempt and arrogance,” he emphasized, highlighting that global awareness against all forms of supremacism is awakening.

“A global awareness is rising that will not allow, under any circumstances, the imposition of a new type of supremacism or colonialism, either in Our America or in the rest of the world.”

President Maduro maintained that although Commander Hugo Chavez died 12 years ago, his ideas and work live on in the revolutionary socialism that Venezuela champions.

“We fought against the sanctions and the blockade and defeated them… Today, Venezuela’s economic system is robust. We also fought and defeated the political blockade.”

The Bolivarian leader reaffirmed Venezuela’s position as a bastion of anti-colonialism and resistance, emphasizing that his nation stands as an example of a new global consciousness that rejects hegemonic power dynamics.

“Its words resonate in a geopolitical context marked by multipolarity, where the global south seeks to consolidate its sovereignty in the face of external interference,” he said.

Maduro described Venezuela’s historical trajectory as a path of struggle, resistance, and revolution that extends into the 21st century through humanistic socialism.

“This development model is distinguished by its inclusive nature and its commitment to the majority,” President Maduro explained.

klññlkIn the face of the maximum pressure exerted by the U.S. government in the Caribbean, President Maduro forcefully reaffirmed Venezuela’s position on the constant threats from the American empire.

He emphasized that the U.S. policy of “maximum pressure” against the Bolivarian nation has consolidated the “maximum preparedness” of citizens to defend security and peace in their country.

This occurs amid a “cognitive war” that the transnational media are implementing to repeat Washington’s baseless narrative that the Venezuelan state represents a threat. This pretext has allowed the Trump administration to deploy military forces to the Caribbean.

President Maduro also emphasized that the Bolivarian Revolution has managed to defeat the economic blockade imposed by the United States and its allies with more than a thousand arbitrary unilateral sanctions. Venezuela has also managed to collapse the diplomatic blockade imposed by 30 countries led by the defunct Lima Group.

The Bolivarian leader asserted that Venezuela has consolidated relations with the “new world” that is emerging on a multipolar and pluricentric basis on the global stage.

President Maduro Addresses the World Over the U.S. Military Threat - teleSUR English

On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference with representatives of international media in which he analyzed the current

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[Brian4Liberty]

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to "outlandish threats" by the United States after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest to $50 million and launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean.

"This week, I will activate a special plan with more than 4.5 million militiamen to ensure coverage of the entire national territory — militias that are prepared, activated and armed," Maduro announced on state television.
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Venezuela's total population is around 30 million.

Good. I suggest arming the entire 30 million member militia.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Chavez and Maduro are total scumbags that wrecked one of the most prosperous countries in Central and South America, but it doesn't matter. We should stay out of other countries business. We don't need to be making more enemies in the Americas. That's always been something in our favor. We haven't been at war with our neighbors.

Agree. But I would add that a thorough examination and audit of what was going on in Venezuela that led to the rise of Chavez would be revealing too.

Don't hold your breath waiting on that though. You'll get that right after you get the full Epstein files...

 

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Epstein Files

After Gaza, Yemen, Syria, etc al, Venezuela, Mexico, et al, who's next??? We still got 3 more years!

Don't forget Somalia.

 

[unknown]

WTF Trump.

ANOTHER country???

This fucking Izrael, there's no satisfying their blood lust.