Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Moscow, August 2. - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro stated this Monday that his country is facing the greatest threat in the last 100 years and warned: Eight military ships, with 1,200 missiles and a nuclear submarine, are targeting Venezuela.
On this day, the Venezuelan leader held a national and international press conference where he referred to the presence of US military vessels in the southern Caribbean, near the Venezuelan coasts.
"It is an extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral, criminal, and bloody threat," he asserted.
The Venezuelan head of state asserted that his country will never give in to threats and blackmail and added that the US government has staged a mess involving an entire country.
"They have wanted to advance toward maximum military pressure, and we have declared maximum preparation for the defense of Venezuela," Maduro stated.
Likewise, the president asserted that having defeated all forms of hybrid warfare against a country, they have opted for the worst mistake: maximum pressure, he warned.
When asked about the channels of communication between the governments of Venezuela and the United States, the president asserted that the South American country always kept channels of dialogue open and revealed that two channels are battered and failing.
Maduro referred to the Chargé d'Affaires, ad interim, of the U.S. Foreign Office for Venezuela, John McNamara, who was in that nation when ten Americans detained there were released in exchange for the repatriation of 252 Venezuelans who remained kidnapped and subjected to enforced disappearance in a concentration camp, known as the CECOT, in El Salvador.
McNamara, when he spoke to me, melted down and began to hesitate, the Venezuelan president confessed, adding that the basics are coordinated with that diplomatic official, to the extent possible.
"I treated him with dignity and respect, and he treated me with great respect, with special deference," he said.
The other channel of dialogue is maintained with Richard Grenell, special envoy of the Donald Trump administration, who was in Caracas last February and met with Maduro.
The head of state rejected the attempt to implement so-called gunboat diplomacy.
They put 1,200 missiles in front of you and tell you: accept this. That doesn't work for us. Even if they put 10,000 missiles on our heads, that won't work, he warned.
Maduro said the channels of communication were battered because gunboat diplomacy is an option imposed on President Donald Trump, whom he asked to beware of his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who wants to stain his hands with blood by massacring the people of Venezuela.
In his view, Rubio's tour of Mexico and Ecuador in Latin America is not good at all. Let's wait and see what new nonsense the US government leader comes up with and what new war he opens.
Regarding the presence of military vessels in the Caribbean, Maduro stated that the countries of this region are against any foreign intervention that could spark an armed conflict.
"The Caribbean fully and completely supports Venezuela in its fight for sovereignty and the right to peace," he stated. (Text and photo: PL)
