Covert Operations

The CIA’s going undercover in Venezuela. 

On Wednesday, President Trump confirmed that he authorized the CIA to conduct potentially lethal covert operations in Venezuela, increasing pressure against Nicolas Maduro—the country’s authoritarian President who is in power despite credible evidence that he lost reelection.

It’s rare for a President to comment on intelligence operations in foreign countries, but Trump acknowledged the operation, saying Venezuela has “emptied their prisons” into the States and smuggled in “a lot of drugs.” Uncle Sam reportedly plans to continue combating “narcoterrorism” by sea and is also “looking at land.” 

Maduro responded over Venezuelan airwaves, saying, “No to CIA-orchestrated coups,” later saying he was mobilizing forces to defend the country. 

The day before, Trump announced the U.S. had conducted its fifth recent strike on a vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing six alleged “narcoterrorists.”

Verse to consider when conflict is heating up in your own home… “Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited. Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even to death on a cross.” 
Philippians 2:5-8 (CSB) (read full chapter)