Foreign Minister Yvan Gil stressed that despite the blockade, Venezuela exhibits successes in the fight against illegal mining and deforestation, in response to the interference of the United States Undersecretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Brian Nichols.
“Failure after failure in his attempt to discredit the government of President Nicolás Maduro, the main polluter of the planet uses the hypocritical resource of distortion against a country that, despite the blockade, exhibits successes in the fight against illegal mining and deforestation” , published this Wednesday the Minister of Foreign Affairs on his account on the social network Twitter.
The Venezuelan diplomat’s statement comes after a publication by Nichols, who stated on the same social network that “gold mining in Venezuela has been linked to human rights abuses for years.”
In his rhetoric against Venezuela, the US official points out that alleged “new reports detail how the practice is also destroying the environment, including a national park that surrounds Cerro Yapacana«.
According to international organizations, the United States (USA) is one of the main polluting countries, as well as one of the detractors of promoting measures against the global development and consumption model that accelerate global warming. Also, the US implements fracking for oil extraction, AVN recalled.
Last Monday, President Nicolás Maduro condemned the interference of the US undersecretary in the affairs of Venezuela, and emphasized that the strategy against the country has failed.
