The president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced this Tuesday a “complete and total” blockade against all oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, a country that he has accused of “appropriating (its)” crude oil and which he has threatened to escalate hostilities if it does not return it “immediately” to Washington. In addition, he has declared Nicolás Maduro’s “regime” a terrorist organization.
“Today, I have ordered the total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela,” he said in Truth Social, alleging “the theft of our assets and (…) terrorism, drug trafficking and human trafficking.”
The tenant of the White House has declared that Venezuela is “completely surrounded by the largest Navy ever assembled in the history” of the continent and has assured that this situation “will only get worse.” “The impact it will have on them will be something never seen before, until they return to the United States all the oil, land and other assets they previously stole from us,” he promised.
Trump has accused Caracas of using crude oil from “stolen fields to finance itself” as well as drug trafficking and crime, and in this sense he has assured that his Administration “will not allow a hostile regime to appropriate our oil, our lands or any other assets, all of which must be returned to the United States immediately.”
“The United States will not allow criminals, terrorists or other countries to steal, threaten or harm our nation (…) Illegal immigrants and criminals that the Maduro regime has sent to the United States during the weak and ineffective Administration (of his predecessor, Joe) Biden are being returned to Venezuela at an accelerated pace,” he stated.
Hours earlier, the Venezuelan president urged workers to “defend the right to freedom of trade in the country’s main export product,” through a “great protest” by employees of the fossil fuel sector to oppose what he described as “piracy” by the United States.
Maduro has advocated for a “global (and) permanent, not one-day” mobilization, during a public event broadcast by the state television network VTV in which he defended that “freedom of trade and peace in the Caribbean and Venezuela is the defense of freedom of trade and peace in the entire world.”
