The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, reported on Monday that he started a process of consultations on the decree of external shock, after the executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, said that the president signed the resolution before which he denounces as “threats” of the US, which maintains a naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea.
“Today, the consultation process of the Constitutional Decree of State of Exception to decree a state of external shock, according to the Constitution, and protect our people, protect our peace, our stability, the scope in all the directions of the Decree of the State of external shock if Venezuela were attacked,” he said in his television program with Maduro+.
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The president said that the South American country has been economically, psychologically and politically and has always “left.”
This Monday, Rodríguez said that Maduro signed an external shock decree that “would be activated immediately” in case of “any type of aggression.”
The official explained that this decree “gives special powers to the Head of State to act in the field of defense and security” in the event that the EU “would dare to attack” Venezuela, near whose waters the North American country maintains a military deployment to, according to the administration of Donald Trump, combat drug trafficking, but that Caracas denounces as a plan to cause a “change of regime”.
The Hydrocarbons Minister also said that the decree “would be activated immediately” if the US military forces “dared” to carry out “any type of aggression.”
In that scenario, Maduro would have “special powers” to, for example, mobilize the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) throughout the territory, take the infrastructure of public services militarily and immediately, as well as the hydrocarbon industry and basic companies, to guarantee their “full functioning”, and activate “all citizen security plans”.
The Venezuelan NGO access to justice on Monday requested that the Venezuelan government publish “immediately” the decree of external shock so that citizens have knowledge about their reach.
“The state of external shock, as it is a state of exception, implies the restriction of guarantees to certain rights, so it is important that its diffusion in the official gazette occurs immediately, so that citizens know their content,” the organization said in an X publication.
With EFE information
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