The Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López said Thursday that the South American Nation would activate a “national mobilization” if it became “attacked” by the United States, which maintains a naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea under the argument of combating drug trafficking.
“There is precisely the state of external shock that our president has signed and signed and is going through all constitutional steps, so that in case of being attacked by American imperialism, the entire national potential becomes a national power and this could even lead to the national mobilization, depending on the aggression,” said Padrino López in a balance of operations of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) Venezuelan television (VTV).
The head of Defense indicated that the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has implemented the Integral Defense Strategy of the Nation “signing” the external shock decree, which gives him special powers.
He explained that this decree will benefit all citizens “to protect their economic interests, their production, their life, their health.”
“That is why they are the states of exception in revolution, never in revolution a state of exception has been applied to go against the people, never ever,” he said.
Padrino López also denounced the “military harassment” for the “combat aircraft” flight of the United States near the Venezuelan coasts in the Caribbean Sea, where Donald Trump’s government maintains a naval deployment under the argument of combating drug trafficking, but which Caracas considers a “threat”.
Conflict
In a confidential warning to Congress, released by local media, the Government indicated that Trump has decided that his country is involved in a formal “armed conflict” with drug cartels and that members of these groups are “illegal combatants.”
The notice was sent this week to several Congress committees and gives a legal justification of why the three US military attacks that the president ordered against ships in the Caribbean Sea last month, which left 17 dead, left, which left 17 dead, were considered.
At least two of these operations were carried out against vessels allegedly from Venezuela.
The United States has deployed at least eight warships in the region and a rapid attack submarine of nuclear propulsion, as well as more than 4,500 soldiers, as part of an operation in the Caribbean Sea. He has also sent last generation fighters F-35b to Puerto Rico.
The Trump government accuses Maduro of leading the so -called Los Soles cartel, indicated by the US as a terrorist organization allegedly linked to drug trafficking, an affirmation that Caracas rejects.
With EFE information.
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