The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Eternal Leader of the Nation of Islam, warned of America’s deceptive intentions on the world stage as the country continues interfering in the affairs of other nations and causing mischief.
“America has done the worst work of deceiving other peoples and making false friendships with them. Now her turn has come. No one wants to trust her for friendship, for she has deceived many nations,” the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad wrote in His book, “The Fall of America,” in a chapter titled, “America’s Loss of Friendship.” The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, has warned about America’s “errant foreign policy” and taught about America’s history of destabilizing foreign governments.
The U.S. government boldly issue threats against several countries in Latin America, including Venezuela, Colombia, and its neighbor to the Southand trading partner, Mexico
Gearing up for a military campaign inside Venezuela, President Trump has signed off on plans under the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for covert measures inside the Latin American country, according to The New York Times.
In a post on X, Secretary of Defense (Secretary of War) Pete Hegseth announced what the U.S. government is calling “Operation Southern Spear,” which claims to remove “narco-terrorists” under the guise of securing the U.S. from the influx of illegal drugs.
Forces include the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, and about 15,000 troops. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy research organization, the U.S. now has about 186 Tomahawk missiles in the Caribbean. In comparison, the country used 325 Tomahawks in the 1998 bombing of Iraq, 288 in the 1991 Gulf War and 218 in the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia. The U.S. also used Tomahawks in the 2011 military operation in Libya, the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in 2024-2025, the 2017 strikes on the Shayrat Airbase in Syria, the 2014 strikes on alleged ISIS targets and the strikes on Iranian nuclear sites earlier this year.
Venezuelan leadership, experts and critics say Venezuela is not a significant or major drug port and that America’s true desire is to remove Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro from power in favor of a regime that would allow America access to the country’s rich oil reserves.
Since early September, U.S. forces have killed at least 83 people in 21 known strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea, in the Pacific and off the coast of Venezuela. In addition to targeting Venezuela, President Trump revealed his interest in carrying out strikes in Mexico and Colombia to reporters in the Oval Office on Nov. 17, again under the guise of stopping alleged drug trafficking.
“Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It’s OK with me,” he said. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed President Trump’s threats. “We are not going to ask for it because we do not want intervention from any foreign government,” she said, in reference to the American president’s offer to “help” her country, reported the U.K.-based Guardian.
In his threats to Colombia, he said, “Colombia has cocaine factories where they make cocaine. Would I knock out those factories? I would be proud to do it, personally.”
The president claims thousands of American lives are being saved or will be saved through such attacks, but according to the Washington Office on Latin America, a research and advocacy organization advancing human rights in the Americas: 1) drug traffickers in South America do not produce or traffic fentanyl; 2) data from the Drug Enforcement Administration and other government reports suggests that most U.S.-bound cocaine travels through the Pacific route and only a small percentage traveled through the Caribbean route from the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia; 3) data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depict a 37% drop in fentanyl overdose deaths from 2023 to 2024 due to health interventions, and 4) targeting alleged criminal operations in Latin America and the Caribbean has not affected the drug trade in the U.S.
A long-running program
The U.S. interest in Latin America is part of a long-running “program (foreign policy) that has been in place since the presence of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere,” Nation of Islam Student Minister Abel Muhammad, who is of Mexican descent, said to The Final Call. He is the Nation of Islam’s representative to the Spanish-speaking community.
He said it has always been the desire of former presidents and administrations to conquer the Americas. “They’ve always had their eyes on taking over in a very formal way, having reign not only in North America, but Central, South America and the Caribbean as well,” he said. “They no longer feel like they have to hide their plan. They wish to really go as blatantly and as aggressively as possible to do exactly what (President Trump) is saying he will do, which is to bring under the power of the United States of America those nations who hold—whether it’s petroleum, whether it’s other resources that the West and the western man wish to have dominance over.”
He commented on the U.S. hypocrisy in accusing the people of Latin America of being responsible for America’s drug problem while simultaneously “asking for those same groups of people to come back and help” with the farms and industry.
“They’re seeking, really in an aggressive manner, to have a form of indentured servitude for the people of Latin America, where they’ll take their labor but they don’t want to respect them as full workers, giving them full workers’ rights, much less citizenship,” said Student Min. Abel Muhammad.
The governments of Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico have been pushing back against U.S. actions. Colombian President Gustavo Petro described President Trump as a “barbarian.” Other countries, such as Iran and China, have continued to ally themselves with Venezuela.
Esmaeil Baqaei, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, warned about the dangerous consequences of U.S. military activities in the Caribbean and Latin America, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Iran’s official news agency. He “called for respecting Venezuela’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity” and “described the threat of using force against the legitimate and elected government of Venezuela as a clear violation of law and a gross breach of the principles of the United Nations Charter, particularly the principle of the right of nations to self-determination and the principle of the prohibition of the use of force.”
Mr. Baqaie also reminded the United Nations and its Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, of their responsibility to prevent the violation of international peace and security.
In an exclusive interview with IRNA, published Nov. 15, José Rafael Silva Aponte, Venezuela’s Ambassador to Tehran, said Venezuela maintains strategic alliances with Iran, China and Russia.
“Venezuela pursues an independent and sovereign foreign policy grounded in Bolivarian diplomacy of peace, self-determination, and non-intervention. We will never accept any foreign government determining our domestic or foreign policies,” he said. He argued that American politicians want “to install a puppet government in Venezuela and seize the Latin American country’s vast oil resources.”
“This is not a new strategy; the U.S. has historically followed this pattern, using such pretexts to intervene in countries that do not comply with its demands. The real aim is to plunder the resources of independent nations,” he said.
Warners in our midst
Student Minister Abel Muhammad said guidance from the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and guidance and warnings by Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan are critical to understanding what is happening.
Student Min. Abel Muhammad opined that the U.S. government believes “the West and this hemisphere was given to them and that they should rule and that we should serve them.” However, he continued, “The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, with the guidance of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, for decades has shown us and the world their (America’s) wicked plans and giving us the means by which we can avoid succumbing to their plots.”
The people in Central and South America and the Caribbean are going to have to do for themselves, he added.
“As long as Venezuela, Mexico and everyone else are dependent upon their trade with America and Europe, they will be victimized by them. I would, if I had the opportunity, encourage those who lead those countries that believe in the scriptures of the Bible, that believe in God, to hear the man of God today in our midst, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, and heed his previous calls and guidance over the years and for separation, that we not be involved with our open enemy,” Student Minister Abel Muhammad said. He hopes to see the leadership of Venezuela, Mexico and other parts of the region unite with one another.
“We have the resources under our feet. We have the technology. We have the intelligence, even, amongst our people. What’s missing is what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan have told us (which) is the unity of all of our people.
The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad referenced scripture in foretelling that America would not buy sincere friendship from Central and South America. “They will take all the gifts which America offers, but still this does not mean that America has their heart,” He wrote in “The Fall of America,” in the chapter on “America’s Loss of Friendship.”
“The little nations are now awake. They had looked for true friendship from America but instead America deceived them,” He added.
The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan, in following the guidance of his Teacher, has continued to be a warner to America and the world about America’s interference in the affairs of other countries.
“The people of the world hate America because of America’s policies. They do not hate the American people; they hate the American government. Is the American government a Satan or is it a benevolent Uncle Sam?” Minister Farrakhan questioned, regarding the U.S. government’s destabilization of foreign countries, in a July 22, 1985, message.
Minister Farrakhan ran down the list of America’s actions against countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean, such as the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Brazil, Jamaica, Grenada, Suriname and Guatemala, on top of countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
“America’s foreign policy toward Central America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America is a reflection of their own wickedness toward these peoples. America, like a giant serpent, has deceived the whole world,” Minister Farrakhan said.