Nicolás Maduro urged the Celac countries and the rest of the international community to “demand responsibilities” and to stop the United States attacks in the Caribbean Sea in their fight against drug trafficking.
This Sunday, Nicolás Maduro asked the member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to categorically reject any militarization of the Caribbean, in reference to the deployment of the United States under the argument of combating drug trafficking.
“Today, faced with the threat of war in the Caribbean and the executions that have been denounced by the UN, we are obliged, to preserve the peace of the region, to join our forces as countries, and in one voice demand the immediate cessation of military attacks and threats against our people,” Maduro said in a statement. published letter on social networks, regarding the IV CELAC-EU Summit being held in Colombia.
He also called for an independent investigation into the “extrajudicial executions” that have been denounced by UN human rights mechanisms.
“The international community must demand accountability, that the attacks stop and the human rights of all people be respected, without exceptions,” said Maduro.
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He also reiterated his complaint about the US “attempts” to violate sovereignty. «Venezuela declares it with absolute clarity: it does not and will not accept any tutelage. “We do not accept that under euphemisms such as “security” or the “fight against drug trafficking” the old Monroe doctrine is intended to be imposed,” Maduro stated.
During the last two months, the United States War Department reported attacks against 20 vessels in the Caribbean supposedly loaded with drugs, in events in which more than 66 people have died, who have been linked to criminal organizations.
Tensions between Venezuela and the United States have increased in recent months after the military deployment ordered by President Donald Trump in the Caribbean Sea, near the maritime border of the South American country, under the argument of combating drug trafficking.
With information from EFE agency
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