Venezuela

Caracas – President Nicolás Maduro said on Monday that Christmas will return early this year, decreeing that annual holidays, which are generally held at the end of December in most of the world, will begin on October 1 in Venezuela. The measure, which said it aimed to bring “joy” to the Venezuelan people, arrived immediately after Maduro, significantly increasing its deployment of troops planned at the country’s borders in the midst of an intensive military confrontation with the Trump administration, which accuses him of collauding with drug gangs to contrabate narcotics in the United States in the United States.

In 2024, Maduro brought Christmas celebrations during a Crisis after a disputed presidential electionthat the opponents and the United States government accused Maduro of stealing. This year, Maduro said on his weekly television program “with Maduro +” that he wants to defend “the right to happiness” of Venezuelans, in the midst of an increasing confrontation with President Trump, whose administration has increased a generosity for his arrest or capture.

“Once again this year, Christmas begins on October 1 with joy, commerce, activity, culture, carols,” said dance and traditional food, Maduro.

Maduro has promised to defend Venezuela in the face of the growing American military maneuver on his country’s coasts in recent weeks.

Washington has Duplicated the generosity for the capture of the Venezuelan leader At $ 50 million, warships deployed on the country’s coast and sank a boat, killing 11 people To whom the Trump administration alleges were members of a drug trafficking gang controlled by Maduro.

Maduro doubles the deployment of troops at the borders in the midst of confrontation with us

Maduro has tried to reinforce his country’s own military preparation against the movements of the United States, including an announcement on Sunday that he was more than doubling the deployment of troops to ensure the long coast of the Caribbean of Venezuela and its border with Colombia, emphasizing its determination to defend national sovereignty.

The Venezuelan leader said in a message posted on the social networks that he would send to 25,000 army troops to the borders, which increases a previously announced display of about 10,000 soldiers. He said the forces would concentrate around the oil infrastructure and border regions.

“These 25,000 brave men and women of our glorious armed forces unfold to defend our homeland, ensure our borders and preserve the peace that our people deserve,” Maduro said.

Hegseth visits troops on the US warship deployed to board drug gangs

Chief of the Pentagon Pete Hegseth, who now uses the title Secretary of War after Mr. Trump’s decision to change the name What for a long time had been the United States Department of Defense made surprise visits to Puerto Rico and a US Navy ship. UU. Which is among the military assets deployed in the Caribbean to attack drug cartels.

Hegesh was accompanied by the main American military official Gen. Dan Caine, and the two were received by Jenniffer González-Colon, the governor of Puerto Rico, who announced the visit in an X position.

She thanked President Trump, “and her administration for recognizing the strategic value that Puerto Rico has to the national security of the United States and the fight against drug cartels in our hemisphere, perpetuated by Narco dictator Nicolas Maduro.”

The Trump administration accuses Venezuela’s leftist leader of Coluda with criminal gangs, including Aragua trainwhich has recently been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, for drug trafficking in the United States

The Maduro government rejected the accusations and repeatedly committed to defend the sovereignty of Venezuela.

In addition to the stop in Puerto Rico, Hegseth visited the USS IWO Jima on Monday, one of the eight ships of the US Navy. Uu. Now involved in the counter-marking efforts in Latin America, according to a publication on social networks in an account of the Pentagon.

The publication, subtitled “A message for our warriors of the Secretary of War,” included a video that showed Hegseth addressing military personnel on the ship, edited with other images of him watching operations on the ship, telling the troops that were working to “end the poisoning of the US people” with drugs.

Thursday, two armed Venezuelan F-16 fighter aircraft flew over the USON Dunhamaccording to multiple officials of the Department of Defense, who described the action to News themezone as a “force show” of the Maduro regime. Aegis’s guided missile destroyer is among the ships of the United States that have been sent to the region In recent weeks.

• Nicolas Maduro
• Venezuela
• Caribbean
• War
• Drug posters
• Donald Trump
• Smuggling
• Pete Hegseth
• Puerto Rico