Barely hours after U.S. President Donald Trump had signed the bill ending the longest government shutdown on Friday (November 14, 2025), his Secretary of War, Peter Hegseth, fired off a tweet, declaring a new military operation, “Spear of the South”, against “narco-terrorists in the Western hemisphere”. On Sunday (November 16, 2025), the Trump government went a step further as it announced that a Venezuelan criminal group would be classified as a terrorist organisation and that it views President Nicolas Maduro as “the head of that cartel”.

With Mr. Trump back in the White House on Sunday (November 16, 2025) after a weekend at Mar-a-Lago—and Washington still consumed by the uproar over the Epstein files—the decision is seen in the region as a major escalation for a possible strike on Vene

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