Nicolas Maduro This Friday he asked Americans to stop “the mad hand of those who order to bomb“, in a context in which he denounces how threatens the military deployment of the North American country in the Caribbean Seaalthough theDonald Trump administration ensures that it is part of a fight against drug trafficking.
“It is to the people of the United States that I address this moment: stop the mad hand of those who order bombing, killing and carrying out a war in South America, in the Caribbean. Stop the war, no to the war“, he stated Ripe at a meeting of jurists, gathered in Caracas against the US military deployment in the Caribbeanbroadcast on the state channel Venezuelan Television (VTV).
Maduro asked the Americans “play a starring role” at the moment “to stop what could be a tragedy” for “all america“.
“Do we want another Gaza now in South America? What do the people of the United States say? (…) Let me tell you no. Here peace will triumph“said the Chavista leader.
Ripe declared this a day after the US Secretary of War Pete Hegsethwill announce the military operation Southern Spear related to the Washington’s fight against drug trafficking originated in Latin America and presented at a time of growing pressure from the Trump administration on Venezuela.
In a message posted on x on thursday, Hegseth He did not give details about the operation beyond explaining that it will be led by a specific joint working group and the Southern Commandwhich includes the US military operations in South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Although it is not specified, it is implied that the name southern spear could encompass the naval and air deployment ordered by Trump since August in the Caribbean Seanear the Venezuelan watersunder the argument of combat drug trafficking.
Without referring to this operation, Ripe stated that Venezuela is in the “fight for peace and sovereignty“and stated that he hopes that a action plan together with jurists from around the world for “proceed with the set of international demands and actions in defense of Venezuela’s right to peace“and South America.
