Nicolás Maduro said this Friday that sectors of power in USA They create a “virtual reality” to steal resources from their country, at a time when it maintains growing tensions with Washington over the military deployment that Donald Trump’s government ordered in the Caribbean.
“Let it be known that it is impossible for sectors of power in the United States to manufacture a virtual reality and impose on Bolívar’s Venezuela a model of colonial and slave domination to steal their natural resources,” said Maduro during an event for a delivery of government community works, broadcast on the state channell VTV.
The president reiterated that there is a “psychological war” against Venezuela to supposedly alter the peace of the country, a complaint that he constantly makes after the US military deployment that began last August and that is seen by his government as a “threat” for “regime change”.
On December 17, Trump claimed that Venezuela took away oil rights from American companies and said he wants them back.
Caracas, in response, rejected the statement and insisted that its resources belong to it.
Maduro insists on calling for dialogue
Maduro also insisted this Friday on calling for dialogue and said that “if one day someone thinks of it on the basis of respect, talk and overcome failed projects of more than 25 yearshere there will always be a president (…) to extend his hand”.
Since the air-naval deployment began in the Caribbean, Maduro has called Trump to dialogue on several occasions. At the end of September, the government reported on a letter that the president sent to his American counterpart inviting him to negotiations and rejecting the drug trafficking allegations that Washington has made against him.
On December 3, the venezuelan president He also reported on a phone call he had with Trump, although without revealing details of the conversation that was, he said, “cordial” and in a “tone of respect.”
By then about “ten days” had passed since the conversationcommented the Venezuelan president.
Until now, the official objective of the US Government’s strategy towards Venezuela with the military deployment is to stop drug trafficking and recover the “oil rights” of US companies, but it does not openly talk about deposing Maduro.
Venezuela has rejected the accusations of drug trafficking and also denounces as “piracy” that the United States has confiscated two ships transporting crude oil in recent days, after the announcement last week of a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving the Caribbean country.
