Nicolás Maduro spoke on Monday about taking an international waters. The president of Venezuela said that the United States is looking to cause an incident that allows them to justify a military aggression against the country.
These statements were given hours before knowing that the American fleet. “That is a embarrassment (…) Who gave that order? Maduro said when commenting on military harassment to tuna fishermen.“ A missile destroyer assaulting tuna ships of unarmed fishermen. What they were looking for was a military incident. The incident they were looking for to attack us. We have not fallen into provocations, nor will we fall into them. ”
The Venezuelan president said that relations with the United States have gone from “maltrechas to undone,” and reiterated that, in case of military aggression to the country, his government would make the decision to move on to a popular armed struggle phase. “If life puts us in that situation, we would assume the path of armed struggle to defend sovereignty and fight imperialism.”
“Everyone knows that the story is an argument,” Maduro added. “That is the narrative, the argument. They want a regime change to seize the country’s wealth. Turn the arm to all countries, control the country’s oil reserves.”
Relations with the United States, he said, have focused on achieving the repatriation of Venezuelan citizens detained by the Federal ICE authorities. Maduro whipped the United Nations High Commissioner, Volker Turk, who has ruled several times denouncing excesses against the human rights of the Chavista government, and the poor quality of the electoral results of the presidential elections of 2024. He called him “complicit of the State Department.”
“No one should think of our country,” Maduro said in allusion to Turk, and Donald Trump, the US president, who also said that Maduro’s is an illegitimate government. “Everyone occupies their country. Trump has said that the US electoral model is corrupt; I don’t get into that. I could talk about that democracy, medieval, bourgeois (the American), but I’m not going to do it. I don’t get into that.”
Maduro commented on several diplomatic initiatives that Caracas displays to give containment to the rhetoric of the United States, and informed that he would propose to the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, the organization of a summit for sovereignty and peace in the Caribbean, in which the confederation of Latin American and Caribbean states, a multilateral organism near the Palace of Miraflores, plays a preponderant role.
“We are victims of Colombian violence, Colombian drug trafficking. For many years we were permanently fought,” said Maduro, who thanked the solidarity of Colombian military personnel in the current border dynamics of drug trafficking fight.
The Venezuelan political leader considered extravagant, and asked the United States people not to cheat: “I’m going to be worth more than Darwin Núñez, Uruguay’s footballer? More than Messi?”
“The drug trafficking is an invention,” he reiterated. “They want a regime change to seize our oil, to place here a colonial government and take our wealth.”
