Venezuela: Says It Captured CIA-Backed Mercenaries

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Venezuelan officials say they've captured a group of mercenaries tied to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

Posted by truthhurts at 09:32 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

In a statement, the government of Venezuela said, "This is a colonial operation of military aggression that seeks to turn the Caribbean into a space for lethal violence and US imperial domination." Earlier this month, President Trump acknowledged that he authorized the CIA to secretly conduct operations in Venezuela. On Sunday, a U.S. warship arrived in Trinidad and Tobago, leading Venezuela to cancel energy agreements with the Caribbean nation.

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My first question...

Why did Pres Trump blab recently about a CIA operation in Venezuela? Are not those ops supposed to be covert?

Venezuela condemns 'military provocation' by CIA and Trinidad and Tobago (October 26, 2025)
www.reuters.com

... Venezuela on Sunday condemned what it said was a military provocation by neighboring Trinidad and Tobago in coordination with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, aimed at spurring a full military confrontation with the Latin American nation.

Joint military exercises between the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago are currently underway in the Caribbean and Venezuela said it had captured a group of mercenaries "with direct information of the American intelligence agency" and whose goal it was to carry out a false-flag attack in the region. ...

Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed reports that he authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuela. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-28 06:42 PM | Reply

"There have been successive U.S. strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats in the international waters off Venezuela, a buildup of military assets in the Caribbean and even an admission from Trump that he had authorized covert CIA action on the ground in Venezuela. Still, Trump claims he's not pursuing "regime change.""

www.politico.com

We could use us some Regime Change in America today.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-28 06:48 PM | Reply

For decades, nearby Haiti has been a sociological, environmental, and economic catastrophe overrun by gangs. And for years, the US did not stop ICE deportations of Haitians to this plague-spot. Look at the numbers for POTUS Joe Biden in the bottom link.

And with this magnificent armada in the Caribbean Sea, what is the nefarious Trumpf junta doing to help the poor people of Haiti? Nothing. What resources could be plundered there? So instead, the flotilla will be de-stabilizing resource-rich countries Venezuela and Colombia under the chimera of interrupting drug trafficking.

Nota Bene: Through the UN, Canada and Kenya are doing more to help Haitians by attacking the gangs and reconstructing their debilitated economy and government, not the US.

Biden Deported 20,000 Haitians.

UN Report: Haiti Collapsing.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-29 03:25 AM | Reply

Well, the CIA did gin up an attack against an American destroyer, that got Congress to vote in war powers for the President and got over a million people dead in Vietnam.
We did have a President, Nixon, who, along with the great evil Kissinger, traitorously got the South Vietnamese government not to attend the 1968 Peace talks so Nixon and Kissinger could strut into the White House, and so there have been and are people who would consider the lives of fellow humans, including American fighting personnel, to be expendable for power.

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-10-29 07:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Well, the CIA did gin up an attack against an American destroyer"

We have Vietnam vets on this very site who either don't believe or don't mind that they got drafted, sent to Vietnam, and acquired a service connected disability. All for a lie.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-29 10:21 AM | Reply

My advice to the Venezuelans: put those captured on television, broadcast on some foreign news systems, e.g., Reuters or Al Jazeera. Have them hold up current editions of the New York Times to verify dates, and watch the cockroaches in the US administration run from the light. It will be must-see TV. Of course, hijinks will then ensue and we will see how good a negotiator the artist of the deal actually is...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2025-10-29 11:25 AM | Reply

"Remember The Maine!"

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-29 04:47 PM | Reply