{"id":3173,"date":"2025-10-07T09:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/venezuelas-maduro-says-us-embassy-false-flag-bombing-foiled-in-caracas\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:45:07","slug":"venezuelas-maduro-says-us-embassy-false-flag-bombing-foiled-in-caracas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/venezuelas-maduro-says-us-embassy-false-flag-bombing-foiled-in-caracas\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela\u2019s Maduro says US embassy \u2018false flag\u2019 bombing foiled in Caracas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>President Nicolas Maduro says Venezuelan forces foil \u2018extremist\u2019 plot to plant explosives in US Embassy aimed at escalating tensions with Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said his security forces prevented a \u201cfalse flag operation\u201d to plant explosives at the United States Embassy in the capital Caracas in order to heighten tensions with Washington, amid a US military build-up off the coast of the Latin American country.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised interview late on Monday, Maduro said two reliable sources, one domestic and one international, had informed the government of the possible attack by \u201cextremist sectors of the local Venezuelan right\u201d and security forces were sent to reinforce the embassy.<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n<p><span>list of 4 items<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>list 1 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/27\/venezuela-foreign-ministry-warns-of-immoral-military-threat-from-us\">Venezuela Foreign Ministry warns of \u2018immoral military threat\u2019 from US<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 2 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/7\/trump-walks-back-offer-to-talk-to-democrats-as-government-shutdown-extends\">Trump walks back offer to talk to Democrats as government shutdown extends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 3 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/24\/youre-destroying-your-countries-key-moments-from-trumps-un-speech\">\u2018You\u2019re destroying your countries\u2019: Key moments from Trump\u2019s UN speech<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span>list 4 of 4<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/9\/20\/trump-warns-of-incalculable-price-if-maduro-fails-to-accept-prisoners\">Trump warns of \u2018incalculable price\u2019 if Venezuela won\u2019t accept \u2018prisoners\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n<p>The sources \u201cagreed on the possibility that a local terrorist group placed an explosive device at the US Embassy in Caracas\u201d, Maduro said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was backed by a person who will be known soon and asked for by a person who will be known soon, but this is all ongoing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The goal was to lay blame for the attack on Venezuela\u2019s government, which would then \u201cbegin an escalation of conflict\u201d with the US, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Following the rupture of diplomatic relations between Caracas and Washington in 2019, the US Embassy is closed and only maintains staff responsible for security and upkeep of the premises.<\/p>\n<p>News of the alleged plan to attack the embassy comes as US President Donald Trump is reported to have called off efforts to reach a diplomatic agreement with Venezuela, telling his special envoy Richard Grenell \u2013 who had been leading negotiations with Maduro\u2019s government \u2013 to stop all outreach with Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed senior US official told the Reuters news agency on Monday that Trump delivered the message to Grenell during a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday with senior military leaders.<\/p>\n<p>The official also told Reuters that Trump has not yet determined whether to advance his military campaign from currently attacking so-called drug-carrying Venezuelan ships <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/10\/5\/russia-expresses-full-support-of-venezuela-after-us-strikes-boat-near-coast\">in the Caribbean Sea<\/a> to a second phase, which reportedly involves attacks on sites in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"us-venezuela-tensions-escalate\">US, Venezuela tensions escalate<\/h2>\n<p>During his first term in the White House, Trump broke ties with Caracas and recognised an opposition leader as Venezuela\u2019s leader in a failed attempt to remove the leftist Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Trump accused Maduro of being one of the world\u2019s major drug traffickers and announced that a reward for his capture would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/8\/8\/us-doubles-reward-for-arrest-of-venezuelas-president-maduro-to-50m\">doubled to $50m,<\/a> while US Navy ships and a submarine were deployed off the country\u2019s coast. US F-35 fighter jets have also joined the military build-up.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced four people were killed in the latest strike on a small vessel in the Caribbean, which the White House claims is involved in drug trafficking and crewed by \u201cnarco-terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to a US media network CNN, a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers has been produced by the Office of Legal Counsel at the US Department of Justice, alongside a legal opinion that the president is allowed to authorise deadly force against a broad range of suspects due to an imminent threat to US citizens from drug gangs.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department opinion is reported to form a key part of the Trump administration\u2019s ramped-up campaign against Latin American drug cartels, which also includes expanded authority for the CIA to conduct lethal targeting and covert action in the region.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, those involved in drug trafficking were considered criminal suspects with due process rights, and the US Coast Guard was responsible for interdicting drug-trafficking vessels and arresting smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Venezuela have slated the Trump administration\u2019s targeting of shipping, saying it amounts to a campaign of extrajudicial killing.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro has described Washington\u2019s military operation as a step towards US-backed government change in his country, and he has written to Pope Leo XIV saying he has faith the head of the Catholic Church \u201cwill help Venezuela preserve and achieve peace and stability\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nicolas Maduro says Venezuelan forces foil \u2018extremist\u2019 plot to plant explosives in US Embassy aimed at escalating tensions with Trump administration. 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