Venezuela denounces military provocation by Trinidad and Tobago in coordination with the CIA (+statement)

Published at: 26/10/2025 05:20 PM

Venezuela denounces military provocation by Trinidad and Tobago in coordination with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America to incite a war in the Caribbean.

Through a statement published by the Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, on her Telegram channel, Venezuela reiterated that it does not accept threats from any vassal government of the United States and that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces will remain alert and mobilized in perfect Popular-Military-Police union in the face of this very serious provocation.

Below is the full text of the press release

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces to the international community the dangerous carrying out of “military exercises” by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago between the 26th and the 30th of this month, under the coordination, funding and control of the United States Southern Command, an action that constitutes a hostile provocation against Venezuela and a serious threat to peace in the Caribbean.

Venezuela reports that it has captured a mercenary group with direct information from the US intelligence agency, CIA, and can determine that a false-flag attack is under way from waters bordering Trinidad and Tobago, or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory itself, that generates a complete military confrontation against our country.

This planned action perfectly evokes the provocations of the Maine Battleship and the Gulf of Tonkin, which gave rise to the war against Spain to seize Cuba in 1898, and which allowed the authorization of the U.S. Congress to get involved in

an eternal war against Vietnam in 1964, respectively, from which they were defeated by the Vietnamese people after facing incalculable destruction and regrettable human losses.

The Government of the Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has renounced the sovereignty of Trinidad and Tobago to act as a military colony subordinate to US hegemonic interests, turning its territory into a United States aircraft carrier for war throughout the Caribbean against Venezuela, against Colombia and against all of South America.

By adhering to Washington's militarist agenda, Persad-Bissessar not only intends to attack Venezuela - a country that has always maintained a policy of energy cooperation, mutual respect and Caribbean integration - and to break our historic bonds of brotherhood, but it also violates the Charter of the United Nations, the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace approved by CELAC and the principles of CARICOM, which protect all the peoples of the Caribbean . These are not defensive exercises: they are a colonial operation of military aggression that seeks to turn the Caribbean into a space for lethal violence and US imperial domination.

This surrendering and treacherous policy of the constitutional principles of Trinidad and Tobago has ended up beating the people themselves as a tribute: innocent fishermen have been victims of extrajudicial executions in the Caribbean Sea, revealing the repressive and criminal nature of the current government, which shoots at its own people under the call to kill them all”, and celebrates the fact that Trinidadians are summarily executed while opening the doors to murderous foreign troops.

Venezuela does not accept threats from any US vassal government. We are not intimidated by military exercises or war cries. The Bolivarian National Armed Forces will remain alert and mobilized in perfect Popular-Military-Police union in the face of this very serious provocation. Our Republic, heir to Bolivar and Chávez, will always defend its sovereignty, its territorial integrity and its right to live in peace in the face of former foreign enemies and their vassals.

Mazo News Team