Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stated in a TeleSUR interview that God Almighty serves as his impenetrable bunker against over five months of U.S. military pressure, and declared all cocaine moved in the region is produced in Colombia with Venezuela as a victim, according to X posts by @Osint613 shared over the 89-minute period ending at 7:45 a.m. UTC on January 2, 2026. Maduro responded to a question on living personally, psychologically and spiritually under threat from the world's first military power by saying, "I have a bunker that cannot be penetrated which is God Almighty and I gave to him Venezuela to our Lord Jesus Christ and he is the king of kings, the king here of our homeland," as quoted by TeleSUR and posted by @Osint613 during this reporting window. He added, "All of the cocaine that is moved in this region is produced in Colombia. All of it. All of the cocaine. We’re the victims of Colombian drug trafficking, not from today, from decades," according to the second @Osint613 post in the same period. These remarks follow Maduro's Thursday interview where he dodged a question on an alleged U.S. attack on a Venezuelan dock but expressed openness to cooperation with Washington amid American military pressure, as reported by AFP and shared on X by @AFP in a prior window ending at 4:46 a.m. UTC. The statements occur amid continued U.S. Air Force activity in the Caribbean, including an E-3G Sentry and KC-46 tanker with a B-1B Lancer force package noted earlier on January 2, per X posts by @HHunternight, and a MARINERA vessel broadcasting legitimate AIS from the Atlantic Ocean heading northeast, as reported by @trbrtc crediting @PoleStarGlobal and @quietd0cket before 6:15 a.m. UTC.
