Caracas (AP) – President Nicolás Maduro said Friday that Venezuela advances in measures to defend the sovereignty of the country against tensions with the United States for the deployment of war ships in the Caribbean, but at the same time asked his counterpart Donald Trump Trump dialogue to avoid a conflict in the region.
Dressed in a camouflaged suit, Maduro participated in an act in which he ordered the mobilization of what he said are millions of people registered to integrate the militias – armed civilians – to support the armed forces and the defense of the country.
“Today we are taking a transcendental step. A step for all Venezuela, in one way or another, to articulate in the defense of the right to peace, in the defense of independence,” he emphasized, three days after the Trump government announced that He attacked a drug boat of the Venezuelan gang of the Aragua train and killed 11 In Caribbean waters, which climbed the tensions. Caracas questioned the veracity of the attack.
The United States Government has not given signs that it plans to make any land raid in the South American country with the more than 4,000 troops that are being deployed in the area. However, Maduro’s government considers him an alleged threat of invasion and called the population to mourn the militias.
Maduro said tensions have been generated following what he considered “false” drug trafficking accusations and considered that the United States must abandon the plan of a violent government change in Venezuela.
He urged Trump to attend his call to dialogue as the only means to resolve conflicts.
“Venezuela has always been in the willingness to talk, dialogue, but, as we are in the willingness to talk and dialogue, we demand respect for our country, for our people and we will continue defending the truth of Venezuela, cost what it costs,” said the ruler in the Fort Tiuna, the largest military installation in the country.
According to Maduro, Washington “intends to set up a false, absolutely false file, with the issue of drug trafficking, to assault an entire country, to qualify the institutionality” of having alleged links with drug trafficking in the procurement of “a change of regime in Venezuela.”
Tensions between Venezuela and the United States increased that Trump ordered the Deployment of US warships in the Caribbean waters In front of Venezuela, which according to that country’s officials seeks to combat the threats of Latin American drug cartels.
Trump’s administration also announced at the beginning of August that it would double 50 million dollars the reward for Maduro’s arrestaccusing him of being one of the largest drug traffickers in the world and working with cartels to flood the United States with drugs.
“I have said it many times, I (Trump) respect him, we have had and we have; now none of the differences we have had and we can lead to a high -impact military conflict, violence to South America and our America. It has no justification,” he insisted.
This article was published by AP News on 2025-09-05 21:14:00
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