The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, said Monday that Venezuela is “more prepared” for an “armed struggle”, in case the country was attacked by the United States, which maintains a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea under the argument of combating drug trafficking, but that the Chavista leader considers an attempt to promote a “regime change.”
“Today Venezuela has more national power, it is more united, it is more prepared to preserve, in any circumstance, if it touched us to go to the armed struggle, its independence and build peace,” said the president, in an international press conference, broadcast by the Venezuelan state television channel (VTV).
In this sense, he reiterated that Venezuela is in a phase of “uninitated struggle”, but “if Venezuela were attacked by the American empire” would “immediately” the “armed struggle.”
“We would exercise armed actions in the localities, in the regions and in the places where necessary to face the Mercenary Group or the Yankee Group (American) invader,” he explained.
“If it were a general aggression, it would go to the declaration of the Republic in arms,” he added.
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The Chavista leader said that Venezuela exercises the “legitimate right to defense” to what he described as an “aggression” of the United States, which maintains eight military ships with missiles and a nuclear propulsion submarine near the Venezuelan coasts.
“Venezuela exercises the legitimate right to defense and we exercise it fully, it is not a tension, it is an aggression on the entire line, a judicial aggression when they criminalize us, it is a political aggression with its threatening daily statements, it is a diplomatic aggression and it is an aggression on the way of a military nature,” said the head of state.
Donald Trump’s government accuses Maduro of leading the so -called Los Soles Cartel, indicated by the US as a terrorist organization allegedly linked to drug trafficking, which has been the reason for military mobilization in the Caribbean and the increase to 50 million dollars of the reward for information that allows the capture of the Chavista leader.
With EFE information.
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