Eleven days after the destruction of a Venezuelan boat in Caribbean waters that, according to Donald Trump, took drugs to the United States, the Government of Nicolás Maduro denounced that the missile destroyer Uss Jasson Dunham of the American Navy illegally assaulted a vessel of Venezuela that sailed in jurisdictional waters of that country. The interception, said the Foreign Ministry, has been “hostile and illegitimate”. The incident took place last Friday when a fishing “Carmen Rosa”, with nine crew members on board, sailed to 48 nautical miles northeast of the La Blanquilla Island, within the so -called Venezuelan exclusive economic zone (ZEE). The head of that portfolio, Yván Gil, said that 18 American Marines boarded the ship “With long weapons”.
The Bolivarian Navy, Gil said, watched the situation without intervening. According to the minister, Washington seeks to provoke incidents that justify a military escalation as part of its “failed policy of regime change.” The United States, the official added, places “to its soldiers and officers as cannon meat.”
Gil demanded from the White House the “immediate cessation” of these operations that “endanger peace and stability in the Caribbean.”
The episode was informed this Saturday in coincidence with the realization of defense exercises ordered by Maduro. “The people to their military units to receive training,” he said when activating the plan “The people go to the barracks” in which military structures converge with the so -called Bolivarian National Militia. “Militia, militia, enlisted, enlisted! We will attend one of the 312 barracks and military units, in Bolivarian Union, from the heart and with the sacred fire that moves us. Venezuela defends itself, ” go to the armed struggle if necessary“The activities, explained the Minister of Defense, General Vladimir Padrino López, were oriented to train millions of enlisted citizens.
The right -wing leader, María Corina Machado criticized the mobilization. “They steal you, deceive you, humiliate you and now they pretend that you go out to defend them. They only fear, but today it is no longer that fear that they sowed in the town, but has taken over them.” According to Vente Venezuela leader, who expresses the most tune with Trump, Maduro can no longer hide his “anguish” and “despair” because he knows “that cracks became troneras (openings on a ship).” Citizens have detected it. “You know it, you see it, you smell it. Have confidence, everything will be fine. This is over, you are not alone; they do.”
