Maduro assures that a government imposed on Venezuela “would not even last 47 hours”

MADRID, December 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro assured Wednesday that a government imposed on the Latin American country “would not even last 47 hours,” accusing the United States of maneuvers to turn Caracas into a “colony,” a day after his American counterpart, Donald Trump, ordered a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving the Venezuelan coast and demanding the return of crude oil that he says belongs to it.

“The truth has been revealed. A regime change aims to impose on Venezuela a puppet government that will not last even 47 hours, which will hand over the Constitution, the sovereignty and all the wealth and Venezuela will become a colony. This will simply never happen,” he said during an event broadcast by the state television channel VTV, in which he denounced the “warlike and colonialist pretension” as well as “the immensity of assaults.” of Washington.

The president called on the Colombian military to achieve “perfect union” in the face of “all the harm that the American empire is trying to do to us today.” “I call on you for a perfect union with Venezuela so that no one dares to touch the sovereignty of our countries and to apply (Simón) Bolívar’s maxim of permanent union and shared happiness,” he said.

“There is a maxim of empires in this century that is divide and rule, and everything they have done to divide Colombia from Venezuela, every day. And the greatest guarantee that we have of peace, of stability, of respect in the world, is union. That is why I appeal today, with the deep love of Greater Colombia, that I feel, to the ordinary Colombian people, to their social movements, to their political forces, to the Colombian army that I know very well,” he stressed.

The leader spoke after discussing the escalation of tensions between Washington and Caracas with UN Secretary General António Guterres in a telephone call during which he denounced the “siege” against his country, after the United States declared the Venezuelan government a “terrorist organization” and the blockade of its entire oil fleet.

In addition, the Venezuelan government requested the urgent convening of a meeting at the UN Security Council to discuss “necessary measures” in the face of what it described as “open and criminal aggression” on the part of this North American country.