{"id":469646,"date":"2025-10-02T23:30:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469646\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:30:21","slug":"venezuela-accuses-us-of-military-provocation-as-tensions-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/469646\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela accuses US of military ‘provocation’ as tensions escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOGOTA, Colombia\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said Thursday that five fighter jets were detected near the country’s coast, which he described as a “threat” and “provocation” by the United States.<\/p>\n

“They are fighter jets. Imperialism has dared to approach the Venezuelan coast,” Padrino said from an air base in a state television broadcast, adding that the presence of the planes was reported by an international airline to a control tower.<\/p>\n

“The presence of these planes flying near our nearby Caribbean Sea is rude, a provocation, (and) a threat to the security of the nation,” he stated.<\/p>\n

Padrino assured that if the US “attacked” the South American nation, the country would launch a “national mobilization.”<\/p>\n

“I denounce before the world the military harassment, the military threat of the United States Government against the people of Venezuela (…); I denounce before the world this situation, which, I repeat, is nothing more than a provocation, but also a threat to our national security,” Padrino declared.<\/p>\n

This incident is the latest development in escalating tensions between the two countries. The US deployed 10 F-35 aircraft to Puerto Rico nearly a month ago as part of a military buildup that also includes eight warships. President Nicolas Maduro has previously called this mobilization a “siege” and a “threat.”<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, four suspected drug traffickers’ boats have already been destroyed by US strikes. Venezuela has said it believes that President Donald Trump is using drug trafficking as a false pretext to overthrow Maduro and seize the country’s vast oil reserves.<\/p>\n

In response to what he views as a military threat, Maduro has mobilized militias, warships, helicopters, and fighter aircraft with 2,500 troops.<\/p>\n

The president has also said he is preparing a decree to declare a “state of external unrest,” an exceptional measure that would expand his powers.<\/p>\n


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