{"id":10815,"date":"2026-01-09T12:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10815"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:18:30","slug":"trump-claims-he-has-cancelled-second-wave-of-attacks-on-venezuela-us-attack-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10815","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims he has cancelled second wave of attacks on Venezuela | US attack on Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump has claimed that he cancelled a second wave of attacks on Venezuela because it was cooperating with the US on oil infrastructure and had released political prisoners.<\/p>\n

The US president said early on Friday that he cancelled planned military action in recognition that the authorities in Caracas had released \u201clarge numbers\u201d of prisoners and were \u201cseeking peace\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very important and smart gesture,\u201d Trump posted on social media. \u201cThe USA and Venezuela<\/a> are working well together, especially as it pertains to rebuilding, in a much bigger, better, and more modern form, their oil and gas infrastructure. Because of this cooperation, I have cancelled the previously expected second Wave of Attacks, which looks like it will not be needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump did not elaborate on the alleged plan for fresh strikes but said the US navy armada in the Caribbean would remain, leaving Washington with the ability to attack Venezuela at short notice. \u201cAll ships will stay in place for safety and security purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he would meet American oil industry figures later on Friday. \u201cAt least 100 Billion Dollars will be invested by BIG OIL, all of whom I will be meeting with today at the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, Venezuela announced the release<\/a> of an \u201cimportant number\u201d of detainees.<\/p>\n

In the hours that followed, however, human rights organisations were able to confirm only about a dozen releases and are pressing the regime to free all political prisoners, whom they estimate number between 800 and 1,000.<\/p>\n

The former opposition candidate Enrique M\u00e1rquez was among those released from prison, according to an opposition statement. \u201cIt\u2019s all over now,\u201d M\u00e1rquez said in a video taken by a local journalist who accompanied him and his wife, as well as another freed opposition member, Biagio Pilieri.<\/p>\n

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<\/svg><\/span>Enrique M\u00e1rquez and his wife after his release from prison in Venezuela.<\/span> Photograph: Frederick Villegas\/Courtesy picture by the Marquez family\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spain\u2019s foreign ministry confirmed the release of five Spanish nationals, one of them a citizen with dual nationality, who it said were \u201cpreparing to travel to Spain with assistance from our embassy in Caracas\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Trump said he planned soon to meet the Venezuelan opposition leader Mar\u00eda Corina Machado<\/a>, in the wake of the 3 January raid that captured Venezuela\u2019s president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, and threatened land strikes against drug cartels in Latin America.<\/p>\n

Since that operation the future governance of the South American country has remained an open question, with Trump over the weekend dismissing the idea of working with Machado<\/a>, saying \u201cshe doesn\u2019t have the support within or the respect within the country\u201d.<\/p>\n

But in a Fox News interview on Thursday, the US president said Machado was \u201ccoming in next week sometime\u201d, adding that \u201cI look forward to saying hello to her\u201d.<\/p>\n

Asked whether he would accept Machado\u2019s Nobel peace prize if she gave it to him, Trump said: \u201cI\u2019ve heard that she wants to do that. That\u2019d be a great honour.\u201d<\/p>\n

This will be Trump\u2019s first meeting with Machado, who said this week that she had not spoken to the US president<\/a> since she won the prize in October.<\/p>\n

Trump has not publicly made the same offer to Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, Venezuela\u2019s interim president, although in an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday<\/a> Trump said the US was \u201cgetting along very well\u201d with Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s government and that they were \u201cgiving us everything that we feel is necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The White House did not respon immediately when asked for additional details on the Machado meeting.<\/p>\n

Colombia\u2019s president, Gustavo Petro, said in an interview<\/a> published on Friday by El Pa\u00eds that during a one-hour phone call with Trump this week, \u201cTrump told me he was thinking about doing bad things in Colombia. The message was that they were already preparing something, planning it \u2013 a military operation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether he feared suffering the same fate as Maduro, Petro said: \u201cUndoubtedly. Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, or any president in the world, can be removed if they do not align with certain interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Petro addressed crowds in Bogot\u00e1 at one of several demonstrations across the country that he called for last Wednesday. The protests, Petro said, were a defence against Trump\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what we use here is popular defence, and that is why I called for popular resistance on Wednesday,\u201d he said, adding that he believed the White House\u2019s threat against Colombia had, for now, \u201cbeen frozen \u2013 but I could be mistaken\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump told Fox News that it would take time for Venezuela to get to a place where it can hold elections.<\/p>\n

US strikes on alleged drug boats<\/a> in the eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea have killed more than 100 people since they began in September. They formed part of a concerted pressure campaign on Maduro that culminated in his dramatic abduction by US forces.<\/p>\n

As part of that campaign, the US was understood to have conducted a strike on a docking area inside Venezuela, but land strikes would mark a significant escalation<\/a>, with suggestions they could target cartels in Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are going to start now hitting land with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico<\/a>,\u201d Trump told the broadcaster Sean Hannity on Fox News.<\/p>\n

Trump has previously raised the option of striking targets inside Mexico, and said on Sunday he was pushing the country\u2019s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to let him send US troops to tackle the drug cartels there, an offer he said she had previously rebuffed.<\/p>\n

Sheinbaum said on Monday that the Americas<\/a> \u201cdo not belong\u201d to any power, after Trump invoked Washington\u2019s \u201cdominance\u201d of the hemisphere after seizing Maduro.<\/p>\n

Reuters and Agence France-Presse contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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