“Venezuela is facing the greatest threat that has been seen in our continent in the last 100 years “, Nicolás Maduro said when denouncing the operations of eight American warships and a nuclear submarine near the territorial waters of that country. The president said that the Donald Trump administration has decided “to move towards what they call maximum pressure, in this case it is military, and given the maximum military pressure, we have declared the maximum preparation for Venezuela’s defense.”
Maduro held the Secretary of the US Department of State, The American Cuban Marco Rubiowhom he called “the head of government” of the White House, of the increase in bilateral tensions.
Rubio, considers maturism, has hindered the possibility of pragmatic relations between Washington and Caracas as those that were insinuated in the immigration issue. “Unfortunately, these channels are deteriorated, since trying to impose The diplomacy of the guns. ” The head of Trump’s foreign policy “seeks a bloodbath, with a massacre and a war against Venezuela, South America and the Caribbean. Hopefully, with respect and dialogue, these channels can be recovered.”
According to Maduro, the presence of ships in the South Caribbean is “An extravagant threat, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal, bloody “. The Government announced the creation of “Militanian Combat Community Units” in all communes, which would mean the incorporation of 8.2 million militiamen. Two weeks ago, Maduro had talked about half of people in a position to fight.
The American maneuvers have been preceded by the announcement of an increase in the reward to those who provide information that would allow the Venezuelan president to capture. Washington has gone from 25 million dollars to 50 million from the same currency. The American attorney general Pamela Bondi accused him of being the head of the Suns Cartel that Traffic Drugs to the United States.
The Venezuelan defense minister Vladimir Padrino López said that these operations have no relation to the alleged fight against drug trafficking. “This scourge is faced with coherent public policies Not with aircraft carriers and submarines. “He stressed that Venezuela is not a drug producer, or transit or processing area, as has been verified by reports from the United Nations Organization (UN).
