Maduro’s sayings arrive after the American president Donald Trump claimed that they intercepted and attacked a Venezuelan boat allegedly “loaded with drugs.” 11 people died in the operation.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduroresponded to the attack of USA to a Venezuelan boat that, as he said Donald Trump was “Loaded with drugs”, and said the American military deployment In the Caribbean it has the ultimate goal of “seizing” of the oil of his country.
The president warned that from the US “a story is invented, a story” linked to the presence of drug trafficking in Venezuela to be able to advance militarily and keep the natural resources of the country.
“They come for Venezuelan oil, they want it for free, they come for gas. That oil does not belong to Maduro and less to the gringos, it belongs to you. It is from the people of Venezuela, ”Maduro emphasized.
The leader of the Venezuelan regime noted that his country holds the first crude oil reserve in the world and that their gas deposits are the largest rooms on the planet, in addition to having gold reserves.
In that sense, he pointed out that there are “eight war ships, we are pointed in our heads with 1,200 missiles and send a nuclear submarine” to press them.
11 people died in the US attack on a “drug -loaded” vessel
Maduro’s statements were released minutes after the US president Donald Trump reported that US forces intercepted and attacked a Venezuelan boat supposedly “loaded with drugs.”
“We had just fired to a ship that transported drugs. These drugs came from Venezuela and are entering very strongly in our country”, Trump said before the press.
In parallel, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, He detailed in his X account that the operation was aimed at a structure linked to a narcoterrorist organization and qualified as a threat by US authorities. According to Rubio, the action was developed in the South of the Caribbean.
Later, Trump himself expanded the information on his social truth network, where he confirmed that 11 people died During the operation and directly accused the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, to lead what he called a network of “terrorism and drug trafficking.” According to their statements, those involved belonged to the group known as Aragua trainto which Washington has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
Source: Ambito
