The United States defends Maduro’s deprivation of resources before the UN while Venezuela denounces “the imposition of a colony”

The United States defended this Tuesday before the UN Security Council the imposition of sanctions on Venezuela to “deprive” the president Nicolas Maduro of resources to “finance” the Cartel of the Suns, while the representative of the Chavista government denounced that the Trump administration intends impose a colony in Venezuela by blocking sanctioned oil tankers.

All this during an emergency meeting requested by Caracas in the face of growing pressure from the executive of Donald Trump, who maintains a military deployment near the South American nation and has confiscated two ships carrying Venezuelan crude oil under the pretext of fighting drug trafficking.

So far this month, the U.S. Coast Guard has intercepted two 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 an OPEC member country.

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

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

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

The Venezuelan also referred to the American attacks on so-called “drug boats” in the Caribbean, which cost the lives of more than 100 people, and to the “armed attack” by land that the Trump administration has been “announcing for weeks.”

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

Moncada described US actions as “a war of plunder and plunder” of oil that constitutes an attack on the entire system of international relations and on the Global South, “considered inferior by the current US government.”

For their part, other American countries like Colombia or Nicaragua They also condemned “the use of force” and “unilateral coercive measures” applied by the United States in the Caribbean, which “undermine the rule of law and should not replace dialogue.”

Furthermore, Russia warned that other Latin American countries could be next.

“This intervention currently being developed can become a model for future acts of force against Latin American states,” Russian UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said, citing a Trump strategy document that said the United States would reassert its dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

China urged the United States to “immediately stop relevant actions and avoid 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 said his country was receiving “massive support”: “The Security Council is giving us massive support for Venezuela and the right to free seaworthiness and free trade.”

Additionally, he once again called US ship confiscations “piracy” and asserted that “no one will be able to defeat” his country.