VENEZUELA'S dictator fumed the US wants to oust him and install a "puppet government" - but vowed he is ready for "armed combat".

Nicolas Maduro stared down Donald Trump 's declaration of war against the cartels , which the President insists are "poisoning" Americans with fentanyl and other drugs .

Trump has accused tyrannical Maduro of being in bed with the "terrorist" narco-cartels - and he has given himself the right to eliminate their members without trial.

Reports say the US is gearing up to seize ports and airfields in Venezuela

Furious Maduro complained on Friday that America is perpetrating “an armed aggression to impose regime change" and to "puppet governments".

He previously said the US has "1,200 missiles pointed at our heads. They have a nuclear submarine."

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