The US defends before the UN the deprivation of resources to Maduro while Venezuela denounces the “imposition of a colony”

All of this in an emergency meeting requested by Caracas in the face of growing pressure from Donald Trump’s Executive, which maintains a military deployment near the South American nation and has confiscated two ships with Venezuelan crude oil under the argument of combating drug trafficking.

So far this month, the US Coast Guard has intercepted two oil tankers in Caribbean waters, both loaded with Venezuelan crude oil. The Coast Guard is also pursuing a third empty vessel that was approaching the coast of the OPEC member country.

“The most serious threat to this hemisphere, our own neighborhood and the United States, comes from transnational terrorist and criminal groups,” said the US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, defending the blockade of all ships subject to US sanctions entering or leaving Venezuela.

“The reality is that the sanctioned oil tankers are the main economic support of Maduro and his illegitimate regime. Furthermore, They finance the narcoterrorist group Cartel de Los Soles“Waltz added.

For his part, the permanent representative of Venezuela to the UN, Samuel Moncadahas stated that Trump’s actions represent “a crime of aggression with which the president intends to turn back the clock of history 200 years to impose a colony in Venezuela.” “The threat is not Venezuela. The threat is the United States government,” he stated.

The Venezuelan has also made reference to the US attacks on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean, which have claimed the lives of more than 100 people, and to the “armed attack” by land that the Trump Government “has been announcing for weeks.”

“This is the largest extortion known in our history; a gigantic crime of aggression developing outside of all national parameters, legal logic and historical precedent,” he added.

Moncada has described the US actions as “a war of looting and plundering” of oil that constitutes an attack on the entire system of international relations and the global South, “considered inferior by the current US Government.”

For their part, other American countries such as Colombia o Nicaragua They have also condemned “the use of force” and the “unilateral coercive measures” applied by the US in the Caribbean, which “erode the rule of law and should not be a substitute for dialogue.”

In addition, Russia has warned that other Latin American countries could be next.

“This intervention that is being developed can become a model for future acts of force against Latin American states,” Russia’s U.N. ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said, citing a Trump strategy document that said the United States would reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

China has urged the United States to “immediately stop relevant actions and avoid a further escalation of tensions,” in the words of China’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Sun Lei.

At the end of the UN meeting, Maduro stated that his country is receiving “overwhelming support”: “The Security Council is giving us overwhelming support for Venezuela and the right to free navigability, to free trade.”

In addition, he has once again labeled the confiscations of ships by the US as “piracy” and has asserted that “no one will be able to defeat” his country.