A person close to the Trump administration said the Venezuelan regime will be deposed imminently, adding to reports claiming military action from the U.S. against the South American country is fast approaching.
"Maduro is ending and a free and prosperous Venezuela is dawning," the person told the New York Post. "Within days, Maduro will exist only in the past tense and in history's judgment. The future Maduro and his enablers recklessly sought to strangle will finally inhale its first free breaths in decades. The regime is going down and the future is looking up," the person added.
Also on Friday the Miami Herald reported that the Trump administration has already made the decision to strike military facilities inside Venezuela and attacks could take place at any time now.
The strikes seek to "decapitate the hierarchy" of the Cartel de los Soles, which U.S. officials claim is ran by top members of the Maduro regime, the Miami Herald claimed. The outlet cited officials saying they believe cartel exports amount to 500 tons of cocaine every year.
Sources didn't tell the outlet whether Maduro is a target, but warned that his time is running out. "Maduro is about to find himself trapped and might soon discover that he cannot flee the country even if he decided to," one of them said.
"What's worse for him, there is now more than one general willing to capture and hand him over, fully aware that one thing is to talk about death, and another to see it coming."
The Wall Street Journal also reported on Friday that President Donald Trump has been presented with a list of potential strikes inside Venezuela.
The outlet detailed that the targets are considered nexus between the Nicolas Maduro regime and drug-trafficking organizations, including the Cartel de los Soles. They include military ports and airports, as well as naval facilities and airstrips.
The outlet noted that Trump hasn't made a final decision yet, but he has publicly suggested the current military campaign would go from conducting strikes against alleged drug boats in the ocean to others in land. In fact, Trump was directly asked if he had made the decision on Friday and he said "no."
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