Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a press conference with local and international journalists held in Caracas on Monday, September 15, 2025. Photo: Venezuela's Presidential Press.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—On Monday, President Nicolás Maduro said Monday that Venezuela is engaged in a major battle for truth and peace against the threat of a United States military deployment encircling his country. He announced that “communications with the US are broken,” acknowledging only a minimal open line of communications to secure the safe return of migrants whom experts claim are treated like criminals by the US government.
Speaking at a press conference with national and international journalists from more than 47 outlets, the president emphasized the importance of revealing the truth about the country and urged the media to “make a great ethical effort to show the truth:”
“Above all, the truth about a country like Venezuela, which is a country with a glorious history,” he said. “Let the truth be told about a country that is peaceful, pacifist in essence, that has moved forward with great effort because no one has given us what we have, neither yesterday nor today.”
He asserted that Venezuela is a nation with a pacifist vocation, recalling the legacy of Liberator Simón Bolívar, whose heroic deeds were carried out “to liberate” and not to attack.
“Venezuela is in a great battle for truth, to win peace, to preserve peace,” Maduro declared. “What have we done this week? Exactly five weeks ago, Venezuela was threatened with missile boats, nuclear submarines, and the bombing, invasion, and occupation of the country.”
The Venezuelan president stated that he had requested that a Special Conference for Caribbean Sovereignty and Peace be convened in Latin America and the Caribbean as a matter of urgency. He also stated that he asked the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to lead talks “to enforce the agreement to maintain the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace. I hope this proposal takes shape,” while adding that the request was made via Colombian President Gustavo Petro, CELAC’s pro-tempore president, and announced that some counterparts have confirmed reception of the request already.
He recalled how Venezuela was threatened by 21st-century “cowboys” five weeks ago and referred to the controversial increase of the US bounty on his head to US $50 million. In the time that has elapsed since then, noted the president, Venezuela has become united and empowered to defend the country.
The head of state confirmed that he is not interested in accumulating fortunes but in millions of consciences and wills “here and around the world.” He described himself as “a multimillionaire of people, empowered, mobilized, building a new society, confronting the warmongers and those who seek to enslave the world.”
“Venezuela has managed to preserve peace because we have a strategy, a plan and a wise political, military, and police high command that debates, builds, and works,” he added. “We have faced various circumstances over these five weeks, and we have addressed each one appropriately to preserve, with dignity and in compliance with the constitutional mandate to guarantee territorial integrity and the full exercise of our sovereignty, the peace of all Venezuelans.”
President Maduro questioned why some international media describe the US aggression as “tension,” when there are, he said, eight ships “aiming 1,200 missiles at Venezuela, along with a nuclear submarine.” Describing the military threats against Venezuela as “tension” between the two countries misrepresents the reality, he noted: that the US is the clear aggressor in this case.
Ruptured communication channels
President Maduro announced that communications with the US government have been ruptured following repeated threats issued by US authorities.
He explained that two battered but existing channels for communication had previously been maintained. “Communications with the United States have been destroyed by them, by their bomb threats, death threats, and blackmail, and that is not how we operate,” President Maduro said. “With threats and with bad intentions, nothing will ever work, and they know it. They have gone from a period of battered communication to a period of collapsed communications.”
Maduro said his government has made great efforts to maintain dialogue with the US government in recent years but found it difficult to achieve “anything positive” with the current administration.
The president also dismissed Trump’s reccent comments pertaining to Venezuela’s elections: “No one should have an opinion about our country… It is better for everyone to focus on their own country when it comes to these issues.”
In a follow-up question, Maduro clarified that a very small channel remains open with US Chargé d’Affaires John MacNamara, who is accredited in Bogota, Colombia. This channel, he explained, serves to continue repatriation flights for Venezuelan migrants being deported as criminals by the US government despite most of them having followed legal migration processes.
Preparedness for armed struggle
President Maduro asserted that Venezuela is more prepared than ever to defend its peace, independence, and sovereignty against imperialist aggression, even if it means resorting to armed struggle.
“If Venezuela were attacked, it would immediately move to armed struggle by the entire people, and if it were a general attack, we would move to the declaration of a Republic in arms, and then we would follow Bolívar’s paths to freedom,” emphasized the president.
“We would carry out armed actions in the localities, regions, and places where necessary to confront the mercenary group or the invading Yankee group,” President Maduro added.
“Today, Venezuela has more national power, is more united, and is better prepared to preserve, under any circumstances—should we have to resort to armed struggle—the country [and] its independence.”
Respond to Trinidad and Tobago
The Venezuelan leader repudiated what he characterized as a threat issued by the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, to “authorize attacks against Venezuela.” He affirmed that respectful relations must prevail amid the US military deployment in the Caribbean.
“The prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago has gone crazy, threatening to authorize attacks against Venezuela from Trinidad and Tobago, practically declaring war on Venezuela,” President Maduro said. “I am certain the people of Trinidad and Tobago are completely against it; we are neighboring countries.”
Maduro highlighted the history of cooperation and brotherhood between the two nations “until the arrival of Kamla Persad-Bissessar.”
“Never before has a leader of Trinidad and Tobago dared to threaten war with Venezuela,” he said, questioning who is behind the action and suggesting that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have played a role. “They call him the lord of death and war now,” noted President Maduro. “Wherever he goes, there is death, there are bombs, there are murdered children.”
“Trinidad and Tobago, all its social, political, cultural, and economic sectors and its people, must once again establish respectful relations,” added the president.
Special for Orinoco Tribune by staff
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