Flash: U.S. President Donald Trump posted a video around 5:30 p.m. purporting to show a U.S. Southern Command strike and sinking of a speed boat which he identified as carrying drugs for the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua cartel, which he called “a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolás Maduro,” calling it “a notice to anyone thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America.” EIR will be following this story, but notes that Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information Freddy Ñáñez posted on Telegram that the video is an AI creation, adding that “it seems” that the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio “continues lying to his President,” and “after getting him into a dead end, now gives him as ‘proof’ a video with AI.… Venezuela is not a threat.”
Sept. 2, 2025 (EIRNS)—In an international press conference on Sept. 1, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned President Donald Trump that he is being set up, if he is being told that a U.S. military intervention into Venezuela will be a quick, successful affair and not a regionwide quagmire.
“Mr. President Donald Trump, you should be careful, because [Secretary of State] Marco Rubio wants to stain your hands with blood; with South American, Caribbean blood, with Venezuelan blood,” Maduro warned, by going for a military action to make up for defeat after defeat of U.S. political operations to remove him by other methods. “President Donald Trump, the pursuit of regime change is exhausted; it has failed as a policy worldwide. You cannot aim to impose a situation in Venezuela,” he pointed out.
In light of the continuing buildup of U.S. military force in the southern Caribbean, EIR raises the question: Is Trump’s team considering a Venezuelan intervention based on Israel’s “Yemen model”—taking out the government in a massive strike—based on someone’s lunatic delusion that the result would be a quick and easy re-establishment of U.S. domination over Venezuela? Or the Iran model?
