Venezuela warned Trinidad and Tobago on Monday that will respond if he lends his territory for an attack against himamid growing tensions with the United States, which maintains a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea and has confiscated two ships carrying Venezuelan oil.
“Venezuela does not fight with anyone, but they leave us no alternative. If Trinidad lends its territory to attack Venezuela, we must respond and we have no other choice to prevent them from attacking us,” said Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello.
On the other hand, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, sent a message this Monday to his American counterpart, Donald Trump, according to which a president “You can’t think about how you are going to govern other countries”criticizing that he devotes, according to him, “70%” of his speech to Venezuela.
“A president cannot think of one or more other countries, a president He can’t think about how he’s going to rule other countries. Imagine if I was wasting my time, instead of being president of Venezuela, thinking about getting involved in other countries, looking for problems and problems for other countries, wanting to rule the world, right? “I would do it very badly,” Maduro said during an event with producers in Caracas, broadcast by state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).
“Every president does his thing,” Maduro added.
Furthermore, he declared that the current context marked by increasing pressure from the United States represents a “test” for his country to free itself from oil and be “stronger as an economy”.
Maduro, who calls the confiscation of two ships carrying Venezuelan crude oil by the United States “piracy,” thanked God for providing “this test” which was, he said, what the country “needs” to make the economic leap” and become independent of oil, the main driving force of the South American nation.
“I know what I’m saying, I thank God for giving me this test, but we’re also going to get through this test and we’re going to be stronger as an economy, as a sovereign country,” Maduro said.
Maduro welcomed the bill being prepared by the Chavismo-controlled Venezuelan Parliament to guarantee the freedoms of navigation and commerce against the American “blockade” and said that “it will surely be approved tomorrow (Tuesday).”
The president, for whom it is a “very powerful law”, hopes that the regulations “will enforce global conventions which prohibit the assault of ships, piracy and all crimes against international trade”.
According to the legislator, the standard also includes sentences of up to 20 years in prison for those who support these acts considered by Caracas as “piracy”.
That same Monday, Trump said Maduro would be “smart” if he chose to leave power and warned that if he “plays hard,” it will be “the last time” he does so.
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