Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro is spiraling under mounting U.S. pressure in the Caribbean — and his latest move sounds straight out of a Cold War thriller.
Vice President Delcy Rodríguez made an astonishing announcement this week, declaring that Venezuelan authorities had captured a group of alleged “CIA-backed mercenaries.” She claimed these mysterious figures possessed “direct information” tying them to American intelligence. According to Rodríguez, the captured operatives were supposedly planning a “false flag” attack intended to trigger “a full military confrontation” between the U.S. and Venezuela.
The timing of this announcement wasn’t random. It came just as U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago forces kicked off joint military exercises in the Caribbean Sea. The USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, docked in Port of Spain on Sunday to train alongside the Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force.
Maduro’s regime quickly labeled the exercise a U.S. “provocation,” claiming Washington was trying to transform the Caribbean into “a space for lethal violence and U.S. imperial domination.”
This isn’t the first time Maduro has cried “false flag.” He’s been using that same line for years to justify his paranoia and distract from Venezuela’s internal chaos.
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