USA (Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Witnesses reported loud noises and low-flying aircraft over Caracas early Saturday, according to international agencies, raising concerns over security.
There was no electricity in the southern part of the city, which was close to a significant military installation.
For months, US President Donald Trump had warned that he might soon issue an order to bomb targets on Venezuelan territory.
In a pre-recorded interview that was broadcast on Thursday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stated that the United States’ present military operation aims to erect the country’s government and gain access to its enormous oil painting reserves.
Maduro has been appertained to as a narco- dealer and an” illegitimate leader” by Trump administration officers. Independent spectators say that since declaring himself the victor of the 2024 choices, which he lost, Maduro has refuted those charges and maintained a solid hold on power.
Since August, the US has increased military pressure on Venezuela by launching multitudinous attacks on suspected medicine- trafficking vessels in transnational waters.
Earlier this week, Trump seemed to acknowledge a covert US operation in which US troops attacked a remote pier off the coast of Venezuela.
The CIA conducted a drone strike that resulted in a “major explosion” on a “dock area,” as Trump described it, thought to be used by a Venezuelan transnational gang to store illegal drugs, according to news sources CNN and the New York Times.
CIA operations are usually kept under wraps, and if the information is verified, it will be the first known ground strike against Venezuela since the US started assembling strike forces in the area.
Have there been official statements from Venezuela military leaders?
Venezuela’s government issued a sanctioned statement on January 3, 2026, rejecting US” military aggression” but no specific statements from individual military leaders like the Defense Minister or top generals have surfaced intimately.
President Nicolás Maduro declared a state of external disturbance, ordering public defense plans and full rallying of fortified forces, per the Foreign Ministry’s condemnation of the UN, CELAC, and Non-Aligned Movement.
State media and military spokespeople echoed the presidential line on” perfect popular-military- police concinnity” without named commanders addressing the Caracas explosions directly; focus remains on sovereignty defense amid contended US strikes.
