{"id":2862,"date":"2025-09-21T03:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/trump-warns-of-incalculable-price-if-venezuela-wont-accept-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T03:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T03:35:34","slug":"trump-warns-of-incalculable-price-if-venezuela-wont-accept-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/trump-warns-of-incalculable-price-if-venezuela-wont-accept-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump warns of \u2018incalculable price\u2019 if Venezuela won\u2019t accept \u2018prisoners\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Outburst comes after another US strike on alleged drugs vessel in Caribbean, as Maduro rallies to defend sovereignty.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>United States President Donald Trump has threatened Venezuela with \u201cincalculable\u201d consequences if the country does not \u201cimmediately\u201d take back immigrants he described as \u201cprisoners\u201d and \u201cpeople from mental institutions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGET THEM THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, RIGHT NOW, OR THE PRICE YOU PAY WILL BE INCALCULABLE!\u201d he said on his Truth Social platform on Saturday. He insisted that Venezuela had \u201cforced\u201d such people into the US and claimed without evidence that \u201cthousands of people have been badly hurt, and even killed, by these \u2018Monsters.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 3 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/20\/trump-says-us-struck-another-alleged-drug-smuggling-vessel-killing-three\">Trump says US hit another \u2018drug vessel\u2019, Venezuela slams \u2018undeclared war\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/19\/us-govt-asks-supreme-court-to-end-protections-for-venezuelan-migrants\">US gov\u2019t asks Supreme Court to end protections for Venezuelan migrants<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 3<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/16\/trump-says-us-strikes-second-venezuelan-boat-all-to-know\">Trump says US strikes second Venezuelan boat: All to know<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>Trump\u2019s latest outburst came amid soaring tensions, one day after he announced another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/20\/trump-says-us-struck-another-alleged-drug-smuggling-vessel-killing-three\">strike<\/a>\u00a0against alleged drug vessels from\u00a0Venezuela in the Caribbean that killed three men he described as \u201cmale narcoterrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela, for its part, has accused the US of waging an \u201cundeclared war\u201d in the Caribbean and called for a United Nations investigation into at least three strikes on boats that have killed a total of 17 people since the beginning of September.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has deployed seven warships, a nuclear-powered submarine and F-35 stealth fighters to international waters off Venezuela\u2019s coast, backed by F-35 fighters sent to Puerto Rico, in the biggest US naval deployment in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Trump says the military is engaged in an anti-drug operation, but has not provided specific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/4\/is-venezuela-the-big-cocaine-menace-trump-claims-it-to-be\">evidence<\/a> to back up claims that the boats targeted so far had actually been trafficking drugs. Legal analysts have warned that the attacks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/4\/in-boat-strike-trump-repurposes-war-on-terror-for-latin-american-crime\">amount to extrajudicial killings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"reward-offered-for-maduro-s-arrest\">Reward offered for Maduro\u2019s arrest<\/h2>\n<p>The deployment has stoked fears of an attack on Venezuelan territory, with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro repeatedly alleging the US is hoping to drive him from power.<\/p>\n<p>Trump this week denied he was interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/1\/maduro-says-us-naval-forces-aimed-at-regime-change-in-venezuela\">regime change<\/a>, but Washington last month doubled its reward for information leading to Maduro\u2019s arrest to $50m, accusing him of links to drug trafficking and criminal groups.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro denies links between high-ranking authorities and drug gangs and pledged to mobilise more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/19\/venezuelas-maduro-vows-to-deploy-militias-as-us-steps-up-military-threats\">four million militia fighters<\/a> in response to US \u201cthreats\u201d after Washington raised the reward for his arrest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3966973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3966973\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2025-09-20T190536Z_243279489_RC2TVGAEOKLQ_RTRMADP_3_VENEZUELA-MILITARY-DRILLS-1758399792.jpg?w=770&#038;resize=770%2C512&#038;quality=80\" alt=\"Drill led by the Bolivarian National Armed Forces\" fetchpriority=\"low\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3966973\">A drill led by the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to train citizens in weapon handling after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro deployed the military across communities nationwide as part of a national initiative to train enlisted citizens and residents, amid rising tensions with the United States, in Caracas, Venezuela, on September 20, 2025 [Gaby Oraa\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"maduro-sent-letter-to-trump\">Maduro sent letter to Trump<\/h2>\n<p>Days after the first US strike on a boat from the South American country at the beginning of the month, Maduro offered to engage in direct talks with Washington, according to the Reuters news agency, which viewed a personal letter sent to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident, I hope that together we can defeat the falsehoods that have sullied our relationship, which must be historic and peaceful,\u201d Maduro wrote in the letter, calling for \u201cdirect and frank\u201d talks to \u201covercome media noise and fake news\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate development on Saturday, Maduro\u2019s YouTube channel disappeared from the video-sharing platform on Saturday, according to the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout any justification, the YouTube channel was closed at a time when the US was fully implementing hybrid warfare operations against Venezuela,\u201d AFP cited Telesur as saying on its website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outburst comes after another US strike on alleged drugs vessel in Caribbean, as Maduro rallies to defend sovereignty. United States President Donald Trump has threatened Venezuela with \u201cincalculable\u201d consequences if the country does not \u201cimmediately\u201d take back immigrants he described as \u201cprisoners\u201d and \u201cpeople from mental institutions\u201d. \u201cGET THEM THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, &#8230; <a title=\"Trump warns of \u2018incalculable price\u2019 if Venezuela won\u2019t accept \u2018prisoners\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/09\/21\/trump-warns-of-incalculable-price-if-venezuela-wont-accept-prisoners\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump warns of \u2018incalculable price\u2019 if Venezuela won\u2019t accept \u2018prisoners\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}