Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the Trump administration of attempting to facilitate a coup to overthrow him and warned the CIA against operating in Venezuela. His comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that he had authorized CIA operations in Venezuela.
Maduro compared Trump’s actions in Venezuela to what he described as failed regime change wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the CIA’s attempted coups against previous administrations in Chile and Argentina.
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The Trump administration has recently moved additional U.S. military assets into the region, has issued threats against the Maduro regime, and has undertaken at least five military strikes against civilian targets in international waters, each time claiming that the targets were “unlawful combatants” smuggling drugs out of Venezuela.
Neither international law nor U.S. domestic law supports the classification of suspected civilian drug smugglers as enemy combatants.
The escalation and provocations have nonetheless prompted some observers, including Maduro himself, to speculate about possible regime-change intentions.
