The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, assured this Tuesday that fishing production increased in the country despite the missiles that the United States has launched against vessels in the Caribbean Sea, where the president of the United States, Donald Trump, maintains an air-naval deployment under the argument of combating drug trafficking.
During a National Council of Productive Economy, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), the president specified that aquaculture production grew 4% and fishing catch 2.4%, between January and November of this year, although he did not give more details in this regard.
Maduro highlighted these figures as an achievement in the “framework of the missiles that have been launched at boats in the Caribbean” and noted that “Venezuela continues to grow in its production.”
In this sense, he mentioned a growth of 18.6% in the oil industry this year compared to 2024, “avoiding so many sabotages and evils,” he noted, although he did not give more details.
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Since August, the United States has maintained a military operation in which it has destroyed around twenty boats supposedly loaded with drugs in the Caribbean and the Pacific, in which more than 80 people have died, whom Washington accuses of being “narcoterrorists.”
Trump has reiterated on several occasions that attacks against drug trafficking within Venezuelan territory will begin “soon.”
Despite the tension, Trump and Maduro held a telephone conversation in November that, according to sources consulted by The Washington Post, was cordial.
During the conversation, the US president stated that he would like Maduro to renounce power, although he did not set any ultimatum and both promised to maintain new contacts in the future, the newspaper adds.
With information from EFE
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