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Top US Officials Working With Venezuelan Opposition to Overthrow Dictator Nicolas Maduro: NYT

September 30, 2025

Trump administration is moving to oust Maduro – preferably without using military force. 

Tomorrow (October 1st), begins ‘officially’ the Christmas season in Venezuela, an absurd measure to try and keep the population from rebelling against the ‘butcher of Caracas’ Nicolas Maduro.

In the meantime, about 8 US Navy warships and a nuclear submarine enact a maritime siege to the Bolivarian socialist republic, with fighter jets, ospreys, helicopters and thousands of troops in the biggest US military mobilization to south America in 25 years.

And now, a push is reportedly ongoing by top aides to President Donald J. Trump to remove Nicolás Maduro as the dictator of Venezuela.

New York Times reported:

“[The effort] is being led by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser. Mr. Rubio argues that Mr. Maduro is an illegitimate leader who oversees the export of drugs to the United States, which he says poses an ‘imminent threat’.”

Watch: alleged Venezuelan drug boat pulverized by US attack.

Secretary Rubio is shaping a plan using intelligence provided by the CIA, and it’s been said that both the intelligence agency’s director, John Ratcliffe, and chief adviser Stephen Miller support his approach.

“Mr. Rubio repeatedly cites the Justice Department’s 2020 indictment of him and other Venezuelan officials on drug trafficking charges. He recently described Mr. Maduro as a ‘fugitive from American justice’ and the head of ‘a terrorist organization and organized crime organization that have taken over a country’.

[…] Mr. Rubio met with five opposition figures in May who secretly fled to the United States in what he called a ‘precise operation’. He has praised the opposition leader, María Corina Machado, whom he called by her nickname, the ‘Venezuelan Iron Lady’, in a tribute this year.”

The plan reportedly involves transferring power to Edmundo González, widely accepted as the legitimate winner of the latest Presidential elections.

Watch: boat with tons of cocaine intercepted by US authorities off the coast of Venezuela.

The State Department insists that Maduro is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela, but rather ‘a fugitive of American justice who undermines regional security and poisons Americans’.

The reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest and conviction has been raised to $50 million.

“’We’ve recently begun using the supreme power of the United States military to destroy Venezuelan terrorists and trafficking networks led by Nicolás Maduro’, [Trump] said last week in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly. ‘We will blow you out of existence’, he added.”

Roughly 70 percent of the population voted for González, according to the Venezuelan opposition and the independent monitor Carter Center.

Watch: Trump in the UN talks about Venezuela.

Read more:

Desperate Venezuelan Dictator Maduro Advances Christmas to October 1st for the Second Year in a Row

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