The government of Venezuela warned this Friday that its neighboring countries are those that would suffer “the most regrettable consequences of an intervention” by the United States, which maintains a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea near the oil nation.
“It would not be Venezuela that would pay the most regrettable consequences of an intervention of this type, we are talking about the neighboring countries, Colombia, the Caribbean, Brazil, Guyana itself, Trinidad and Tobago, the one whose prime minister (Kamla Persad-Bissessar) threatens us and has assumed a position of war. (…) They would suffer the most tragic consequences of any intervention,” said Foreign Minister Yván Gil.
At the installation of the ‘Parliamentary Meeting of the Greater Caribbean’, in Caracas, the official assured that the destabilization of the region would be “the first of the consequences” if “a military intervention was decided irresponsibly” by the Donald Trump Administration.
Meanwhile, Venezuelans, according to the chancellor, are “prepared in perfect civic-military-police union and, furthermore, with a historical, patriotic and sovereign sense to follow,” he said, “traveling the path of the Bolivarian revolution under any circumstance.”
This Friday, Venezuela held the ‘Parliamentary Meeting of the Greater Caribbean’ with legislators from several countries in the region, in order to develop a roadmap to confront what it calls “extravagant” US military presence.
They reject US actions
The meeting also included the participation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, Denis Moncada, who said that “the so-called war on drugs” is “a geopolitical strategy” of the United States to justify “the intervention, the deployment of troops, the systematic violation of sovereignty, the blatant theft of natural resources, the imposition of arbitrary tariffs” and “the control of territories.”
The US Army claims that it has sunk 15 boats in twelve attacks in the Caribbean and Pacific waters in which at least 61 people died, in a new stage of what it calls its war on drugs.
Caracas rejects this argument and insists that it is a plan to promote a “regime change” in Venezuela and impose a “puppet” authority with which the United States can “seize” the country’s natural resources, mainly oil.
The UN accused the US government this Friday of “violating international law” with these attacks and stated that the people on board the vessels were victims of “extrajudicial executions.”
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed that these “attacks, and their increasing human cost, are unacceptable”, which is why, he considered, they must stop “regardless of the alleged crimes attributed to them.”
With information from Efe.
