Maduro says the UN Security Council gives “overwhelming support” to Venezuela

Caracas.- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said that his country is receiving “overwhelming support” from the UN Security Council, which held an emergency meeting this Tuesday requested by Caracas in the face of growing pressure from the United States, which maintains a military deployment near the South American nation and has seized two ships with Venezuelan crude oil.

“The Security Council is giving us overwhelming support for Venezuela and the right to free navigability, free trade,” expressed the Chavista leader during a tour of a Christmas fair in Caracas, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). Maduro once again labeled the confiscations of ships by the U.S. as “piracy” and asserted that “no one will be able to defeat” his country.

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