The intensification of threats by the United States government, under the Donald Trump administration, against the government of Nicolás Maduro is part of a multifaceted strategy of aggression that combines diplomatic pressure, military operations, media campaigns, and cognitive warfare. The latter, as President Maduro himself has denounced, seeks to colonize the minds of the Venezuelan people, manipulate their emotions, and sow despair, using social media, algorithms, and destabilizing narratives as instruments of domination.
The apparent deployment of destroyers in the Caribbean, the doubling of the reward for Maduro's capture to $50 million, and the designation of the Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist organization are part of an offensive intended to justify a military intervention und