Venezuela starts consultation process for state of exception decree, Maduro says

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 29.Sep.2025, Words: 215) — Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro Moros announced the start of a consultation on the decree of a state of external unrest in response to ongoing US military threats in the Caribbean Sea.

Maduro, speaking on 29 Sep. 2025 during the 92nd edition of the program “Con Maduro Más” stated the legal instrument would be applied “to protect our people if Venezuela were militarily attacked by the US empire.”