Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a meeting with communards in Aragua state on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. Photo: Venezuela's Presidential Press.
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has declared that Venezuela’s military preparedness is the strongest it has been in decades, delivering a forceful message to the US empire.
“Let no one mess with us, and to imperialism we say, get out of here, leave Venezuela alone,” the president stated from Aragua state, during a televised event with communards this Wednesday, November 12. “What Venezuela wants is to work to prosper, to have times of peace dreamed of by the Liberator as perpetual peace, and we are going to preserve and conquer that perpetual peace because we are destined by providence to always triumph.”
He asserted that the US regime has failed in its efforts to control the narrative about the South American nation. “The US government has sought to impose a bizarre, completely false narrative about Venezuela, which collapses on its own,” he added.
Unprecedented military preparedness
President Maduro emphasized that the country is ready to defend itself, linking the current spirit to Venezuela’s history of independence.
“I believe that the spirit and strength of the Independence War’s United Liberation Army,” he said, “which triumphed across these plains 200 years ago with Simón Bolívar, Antonio Jose Sucre, Rafael Urdaneta, and José Félix Ribas at the forefront, has been reborn.”
He highlighted the civic-military-police union as a fundamental strategy to guarantee the country’s peace in the face of US war threats. “We are all driven by the idea of fighting for our land,” he emphasized, “for our homeland, that no one should mess with us. To imperialism we say, get out of here, leave Venezuela alone!”
Rubio defends US deployment at G7
The statements come amid growing regional tension due to the US military buildup and a series of strikes that have murdered 75 civilians from different countries, which the UN has labeled extrajudicial killings.
At the G7 summit, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was confronted with harsh criticism from European Union officials over the controversial US military operation. The US regime received calls from its usually submissive European allies to respect international law.
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When asked about the operation, Rubio defended the deployment as a fight against drug trafficking without addressing the US’s own astronomical demand for drugs. “This is a drug operation,” he said. “The president ordered it in defense of our country. It is underway. It could be stopped tomorrow if they stop sending ships with drugs.”
He accused the Venezuelan government of being responsible for narcotics entering the US empire, despite international experts pointing to Venezuela as a marginal actor in international drug trafficking and not a source in any form.
Pushing back against European criticism, Rubio lamented, “I don’t think that the European Union gets to determine what international law is. They certainly don’t get to determine how the United States defends its national security.”
Special for Orinoco Tribune by staff
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