Maduro accuses Trump of ‘inventing new eternal war’

"The people of the United States know it, they are inventing a new eternal war. They promised they would never get involved in another war, and now they are inventing a war that we are going to prevent. How?" he said in an address in Caracas. "By mobilizing the peoples of South America."

By Nicholas Ballasy

Published: October 25, 2025 12:46pm

Updated: October 25, 2025 2:22pm

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused the Trump administration of “inventing a new eternal war” after the Pentagon deployed the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, its largest warship, into Caribbean waters to ramp up anti-drug efforts.

According to a court filing from the U.S. Department of Defense, six suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — designated by the Trump administration as a terrorist organization — were killed in a U.S. military strike on a vessel in the region, according to a Newsweek report published on Saturday.

"The people of the United States know it, they are inventing a new eternal war. They promised they would never get involved in another war, and now they are inventing a war that we are going to prevent. How?" Maduro said in Caracas, according to state media. "By mobilizing the peoples of South America."

Maduro was charged in March 2020 in the Southern District of New York for "narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices."