Digital influencer Axios cites sources from the White House and points out that the Venezuelan president’s allies could eliminate him if he yields to US pressure
EFE (via 14ymedio) ,Caracas, November 25, 2025 — US President Donald Trump is planning to hold a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to the digital media Axios, which cites anonymous sources in the US administration.
According to these sources, Trump has told his advisers that he plans to speak with Maduro but has not yet set a date, because the call is “in the planning phase.”
“Nobody plans to come in and shoot or kidnap him (Maduro) right now. I would not say that it will never be so, but that is not the plan at this time,” a US official close to the alleged talks with Caracas told Axios.
“Nobody plans to come in and shoot or kidnap him (Maduro), right now. I would not say that it will never be so, but that is not the plan at this time”
Among the issues raised by the media is that Venezuela’s oil wealth “has helped to shore up the dictatorship in Cuba, which provides the security that helped install Maduro in 2013 and keeps him in power.”
“Part of the challenge to persuade Maduro to leave, say US officials, is that the Cubans who control him could execute him if he yields to American pressure and resigns.”
The information comes amid the huge military deployment that the US has maintained in the Caribbean since this summer. Yesterday, the US Department of State designated the Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) as a foreign terrorist organization. Not much is known about this cartel, but the US links it to the head of the Army and the Venezuelan government and claims it is led by Maduro, who says the accusation is unfounded.
This Monday, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said that the Cartel de los Soles is a “fetish invented” by US intelligence services in order to justify violent actions to overthrow the Government of Venezuela.
“The Cartel de los Soles is an invention of the US Government and its Secretary of State (Marco Rubio) in order to justify violent actions to overthrow by force the Government of Venezuela and seize the oil of that sister country,” wrote Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez, on social networks. In turn, he considered the designation to be “fraudulent, arbitrary and unilateral.”
The head of Cuban diplomacy also said that Washington intends to “return to the policy of gunboats as US conduct towards the region.” Venezuela quickly thanked him for the words of support from Havana.
This Monday, in addition, several US military aircraft flew over the waters of the Caribbean between the coast of Venezuela and the island of Curaçao
This Monday, in addition, several US military aircraft flew over the Caribbean waters between the coast of Venezuela and the island of Curaçao, which are 65 kilometers away, according to the flight tracking page FlightRadar24. It detected the movement of at least one B-52 bomber, two F/A-18 fighters and an E-2, an early warning and operations control aircraft.
This overflight coincides with the cascade of cancellations of flights by international airlines after the US Federal Aviation Administration last Saturday urged “extreme caution” when flying over Venezuelan territory.
Since that day, at least 22 flights from Caracas have been cancelled.
This Monday, US Chief of Staff Dan Caine visited Puerto Rico and will meet on Tuesday with Trinidad’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, two of its military allies in the Caribbean.
Translated by Regina Anavy
