The deputy spokeswoman for the UN Secretary General said that “the latest events between the US and Venezuela governments are” close closely “, which have reached a peak of tension in recent days
The UN Secretary General, António Guterres, called on Thursday, August 21 to the United States and Venezuela to “resolve their differences by peaceful means”, after sending three American destroyers with more than 4,000 sailors to the coasts of Venezuela, which is expected to arrive in the weekend.
In the daily press conference, the deputy spokeswoman for Guterres, Daniela Gross, said Guterres “follows closely” the latest events between the governments of the US and Venezuela, which have reached a peak of tension in recent days.
Guterres, according to the spokesman, “urges the two governments to descale the tensions and exercise containment.”
When asked if the mobilization of American destroyers and soldiers towards the waters of another country constituted a violation of the United Nations Charter, the spokeswoman did not want to pronounce on the matter.
The announcement of the United States, which adds to the American reward (“improved” on August 8) of 50 million dollars for those who help to capture Nicolás Maduro, was responded by the latter with the mobilization of four million militiamen to defend the country of US “threats.”
Today the rhetoric against Maduro continued from the Trump government: the director of the Anti -Drug Agency (DEA), Terry Cole, told the Fox chain that “Venezuela has become a narcoterrorist state that continues to collaborate with the FARC and the ELN of Colombia to send records record of cocaine from Venezuela to the Mexican posters, which continue to enter the United States.”
With information from EFE agency
*Journalism in Venezuela is exercised in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments arranged for the punishment of the word, especially the laws “against hatred”, “against fascism” and “against blockade.” This content was written taking into consideration the threats and limits that, consequently, have been imposed on the dissemination of information from within the country.
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