Venezuela says its fishermen in the Caribbean Sea “are not afraid of any military power”

Caracas.- Venezuela’s Executive Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, assured this Wednesday that Venezuelan fishermen who live in the Caribbean Sea “do not fear any military power,” in a context in which the United States maintains an air-naval deployment in Caribbean waters under the argument of combating drug trafficking. During the event ‘Assembly of the Peoples for the Sovereignty and Peace of Our America’, which began in Caracas on Tuesday and will conclude this Thursday, Rodríguez stressed that fishermen are the “first barrier against the destroyers, against the nuclear submarines” and are the ones who take care of the Venezuelan sea.

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“Venezuelan fishermen are not afraid of any military power and continue with their nets fishing in our Caribbean Sea, exercising political sovereignty and exercising economic sovereignty”, stated the Minister of Hydrocarbons as well.

For the official, today the United States exhibits “military violence” and “economic aggressions”, in reference to the sanctions, as “fundamental characteristics in its foreign policy”. “That military aggression we see today, the military occupation of our Caribbean Sea, is not just against Venezuela, it is against our region, against Latin America and against the Caribbean countries,” the vice president indicated. Since August, the United States has maintained a military operation in which it has destroyed about twenty boats allegedly loaded with drugs in the Caribbean and the Pacific, in which more than 80 people have died, whom Washington accuses of being “narco-terrorists”. The Donald Trump administration does not recognize the legitimacy of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela and accuses him of leading the Cartel of the Suns, an alleged organization that links to drug trafficking, but which officials such as the Venezuelan Interior Minister, Diosdado Cabello, consider to be an “invention”. This Wednesday, the United States intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, amid growing tension between Washington and Caracas, Bloomberg reported this Wednesday.