Nicolás Maduro asked Jorge Rodríguez, president of the National Assembly, to bring “the truth, strength and will for peace of Venezuela to American public opinion”
This Wednesday, October 15, Nicolás Maduro condemned actions of the CIA (United States Central Intelligence Agency) in Latin America. «No to the coups d’état carried out by the CIA, which reminds us so much of the 30,000 people disappeared by the CIA in the coups d’état against Argentina, of Pinochet’s coup d’état and the 5,000 young people murdered and disappeared. How long will there be coups d’état in the CIA? Latin America does not want them, does not need them and repudiates them,” he said during a meeting of the National Council for Sovereignty and Peace.
«Listen to me. Not war. Just peace,” Maduro insisted to Donald Trump’s administration, while ensuring that peace will prevail in the country and calling on citizens to defend sovereignty. In addition, he requested respect for international laws.
Nicolás Maduro’s statements rejecting possible US actions in the country arose just after the US newspaper The New York Times reported, after consulting with officials from that country, that the US president authorized covert action by the CIA in Venezuela supposedly against the Executive, unilaterally or jointly as part of a broader military operation.
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He asked the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, to continue doing the task and deepen it with creativity of “bringing the truth, the strength and will for peace of Venezuela to American public opinion.”
The United States has maintained a deployment in the Caribbean since last August that consists of eight warships, a submarine, planes, which are in Puerto Rico, and 10,000 officials to fight drug trafficking to their country; However, Caracas describes the action as an operation to overthrow Maduro and seize the country’s natural resources.
As of October 14, US military forces have annihilated seven vessels in the Caribbean that were supposedly transporting drugs, according to the Trump administration. In these operations, 27 people have died, who have not been identified, nor have their nationalities or alleged links to drug trafficking networks been verified.
*Journalism in Venezuela is carried out in a hostile environment for the press with dozens of legal instruments in place to punish the word, especially the laws “against hate”, “against fascism” and “against the 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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