Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro condemned Donald Trump’s authorization of covert CIA operations in Venezuela, calling it an “immoral” and “desperate” attempt at regime change.

The government of Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro claimed in a Sunday statement that it captured an alleged “mercenary group” with “direct information” from the CIA. The statement from Maduro’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez accused the alleged group of planning a “false flag operation” from around nearby Trinidad and Tobago and accused the small island nation of performing ongoing “military exercises” under “the coordination,

The report comes amid tensions between the Trump administration and Venezuela over drug trafficking.View on euronews

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump secretly authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela, the New York Times reported today, citing unnamed senior American officials.

Venezuelan government officials floated a plan in which President Nicolás Maduro would eventually leave office, a bid aimed at easing mounting U.S. pressure on the government in Caracas.

A federal agent reportedly offered to make Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s personal pilot wealthy if he secretly flew the socialist leader to a place where the U. S.

Tensions in the Caribbean spiked after Venezuela announced that its security forces had captured what it described as a “mercenary group” allegedly connected to the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).