The President of the Republic Nicolás Maduro, spoke on Monday in an act with governors and mayors of the Great Patriotic Pole, about the threats issued by the United States Government against national integrity and against the leaders and institutions of the country, after the false accusation that in Venezuela it works in a Drug poster linked to government.
“Our seas, our heavens and our lands defend them. We release them and patrol them. No empire will come to touch sacred soil of Venezuela, nor should it touch sacred soil of South America,” said the president in reference to US threats.
“But ever empires with their insolent plant will play sacred land of Bolívar. It is already quite humiliation that there are US military bases in Colombian land,” he reflected.
The speech of head of statearose in response to Washington’s accusations about the presence of a drug cartel in Venezuela, which denied flatly and for this he relied on UN reports.
“Venezuela is territory free of coca leaf plantations, marijuana, cocaine laboratories … We are free,” he said.
In this regard, he extended his solidarity and support to the Colombian government and people to fight together against the scourge of drug trafficking. “Colombians, have Venezuela for peace and to maintain this territory free of crime, violence, for the defense of South America, as the CELAC’s statement says, a peace zone,” he said.
He denied that he has proposed, as distorted in the right -wing press of Colombia, that the armies of both countries joined in one, but reminded the military of the neighboring country, where his history comes from.
“I have not proposed, that at this stage Colombia and Venezuela have a single army. We were a single army and we achieved freedom … Colombian military, do not forget that you are children of Bolívar too, and that the day of union will come again, but not yet,” he said.
Government activated binational zone 1 with Colombia
President Nicolas Maduro Moros announced the activation of the Binational Zone #1 on the border with Colombia, focused on cooperation in key areas such as trade, mobility, transport and connectivity.
Maduro stressed that, in parallel to this initiative, his government will continue the fight against criminal gangs in the region, an effort that, in his words, “has given successful results.”
The president extended once again the “hand to the people of Colombia”, especially those who seek peace, to guarantee full cooperation between the two nations. The objective is that this border area becomes an area of “peace, coexistence and a true communion of efforts for the mutual development of Colombia and Venezuela”
