“96% of the country’s citizens repudiate the act of piracy carried out by the Government of the United States (USA) against a Venezuelan oil tanker, not only violating international law, but also taking us back to the time of pirates and privateers,” said the president of the Bolivarian Republic, Nicolás Maduro, during the Digital Zone segment of the Con Maduro+ program.
In this sense, the head of state assured that “in no country in the world does this value reach 96% in a survey and the citizens of this country made it possible by forcefully rejecting this act of piracy that violates international public law with the theft of the Venezuelan oil tanker.”
Likewise, he added that in the face of these attacks, threats and now robberies, “Venezuela will be respected.” In this regard, President Maduro also asserted that this fact has had an impact on the world and on Venezuelan public opinion, which not only expresses its rejection, but also takes to the streets to march, “telling the world ‘alert’, this not only points against Venezuela, against free trade, against respect for international law. This fight is being written by the common man, the simple people.”
In addition to this, the national leader indicated that it is not only the robbery of an oil tanker, but additionally “today we have crew members kidnapped and missing. Where is the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Criminal Court? They robbed a private ship with weapons and the crew members have been missing for five days; we do not know if they are being tortured,” he added.
In that order of ideas, he stressed that “due to the lack of forceful actions against the genocide in Gaza, in Syria, in Yemen, the international penal system lost credibility, they were self-execrated from international public life. They are kidnapped, they disappear and what does the United Nations system do?”, concluded President Nicolás Maduro.
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