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Venezuela under Siege: PressTV Transcript of Interview with Peter Koenig

October 19, 2025 By InLatAm and Caribbean 3 Comments
Background

Tensions between Caracas and Washington show no sign of abating. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has denounced his U-S counterpart Donald Trump for authorizing C-I-A operations in Venezuela.

Maduro said the C-I-A has been active in Venezuela for the past 60 years and interfered in the South American nation’s internal affairs. He added that the U-S central intelligence agency had conspired not only against him but also against former President Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan leader further warned that Washington is waging psychological warfare to intimidate and demoralize the Venezuelan people. However, he asserted that Venezuelans remain united and capable of defeating conspiracies against the country’s peace and stability.

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PressTV:
How do you see the situation, Mr. Koenig?
PK
Well, under President Trump, the Monroe Doctrine is again alive and kicking. But this time Latin America will no longer fall for it. Those times are gone.
As to Trump’s constant aggressions – expand this to the US Governments over the last few decades – it is not just Trump and the US who are continually aggressing Venezuela.
It is the entire west. It is a typical puppet reaction. What the Emperor does must be right. Besides, if we don’t support him with deadly sanctions on Venezuela – as is the case on Russia – he may punish us.
This political anti-Venezuela game is played out all the way to the Nobel Peace Prize which was awarded to Madame Maria Corina Machado, who is known to be a Venezuela trouble maker, committed to Trump’s wars, officially supporting them, also a strong supporter of Netanyahu’s genocide – openly spoke about her support for Bibi the butcher.
Ms. Machado has already on several occasions attempted a coup against the Maduro Government, and already in 2002 supported an attempted CIA Regime Change against then President Hugo Chavez.
Ms. Machado comes from a wealthy industrialist family, is a conservative neoliberal and – guess what? – She is also a World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader.
She is surely getting help from an international forum for her attempts to take over the Venezuelan Government – and privatize all the countries riches, mainly the trillions worth hydrocarbon resources.
She has recently said so – in an interview with Trump, that if she is made President of Venezuela, the benefits for the US will be enormous. She is absolutely NO peace maker or even Peace seeker.
The Nobel Peace Prize is as usual highly politicized, you could say weaponized. It is a War-Prize rather than a Peace Prize.
It will give Trump more power to eventually attack Venezuela.
He knew it. That is why he most likely knowing in advance the decision of the Norwegian Nobel Commission, accepted it with pleasure, as it will help what is really behind the American aggression against first Chavez, then Maduro, namely the enormous wealth of hydrocarbons, in the trillions of dollars-worth. The largest reserves worldwide.
Trump and his predecessors could not care less about Venezuela having a socialist government. Although it is at Trump’s doorstep, it is not, never has been, a threat to America.
Similarly, Trump could not care less about the “drug trafficking”, for which he accuses Maduro’s government. Trump knows quite well that the biggest drug trafficker worldwide is the United States. Period. The world must know that too.
Will President Trump succeed with Regime Change in Venezuela? – I doubt it. Though the media talk about the enormous US navy-vessel strength stationed in the Caribbean, ready any moment to attack Venezuela. What they do not say is that China has quietly also sent a military flotilla to the Caribbean. China, Venezuela, and Russia are close allies. Trump knows it. So, he better be careful what he is risking.
See the actual interview here: https://www.urmedium.net/c/presstv/134922 .
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst, regular author for Global Research, and a former Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020).
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
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[Note:Colombian public media confirm that the vessel destroyed in a U.S. military strike on September 15 — the second known U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean — was a Colombian fishing boat operating within Colombian territorial waters.

Among the three people killed extrajudicially in the strike was lifelong fisherman Alejandro Carranza, whose identity has been verified by his cousin. The boat had suffered an engine failure and was adrift with a distress signal raised.

Captain Leonardo Vega, an instructor and fishing companion of Carranza, says the video of the strike clearly shows one engine raised — a universal sign of damage and emergency.

“If a boat is adrift and in distress, international law requires that assistance be given, not that it be attacked,” Vega stated.

Vega also confirmed the vessel’s Colombian origin, identifying it as an Eduardoño model commonly used in Taganga, Santa Marta, Parque Tayrona, and La Guajira. He dismissed U.S. claims that it may have crossed into international waters, noting that less than 48 hours passed between Carranza’s departure and the time of the attack — far too little for the boat to have drifted 200 miles offshore.

The evidence leaves no doubt: the U.S. strike targeted a Colombian vessel inside Colombia’s own waters, killing innocent fishermen in violation of international law and Colombian sovereignty.]

Of course, Trump threatens again.  Of course they shot a Colombian boat.  Trump’s Truth Social Post cannot spell Colombia.  It is almost a given that some C-I-A operatives will lose some, with no subsidies.

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wlhaught2
wlhaught2
2 months ago

The omission of Chinese support is so they can feign surprise and use it as a pretext for escalations that lead to war with China?

wlhaught2
wlhaught2
2 months ago

World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader — at 58 still Mademoiselle Maria Corina Muchacha? I thought 58 was the new 38, but apparently more like the new 28 or perhaps even 18. The fourth dimension is kind to no one, but it appears to be much more brutal for… Read more »

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wlhaught2
wlhaught2
2 months ago

Maybe if Americans vote for Machado, and Israelis for Bonespurs-Drumpft those two countries will have Presidents that put their countries first instead of second. As for Machado not being native born, neither was Rafael Edward Cruz and John Sidney McCain III is at least questionable. Besides, “What constitution?” at this… Read more »

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