Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaking during an event with communal leaders, in the 23 de Enero neighborhood in Caracas on March 5, 2024. Photo: Presidential Press.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has criticized the support that the Venezuelan far-right opposition has given for the claims of the Guyanese government that is trying to dispose of the oil wealth in the undelimited sea on the Atlantic coast of the country. He also denounced the fact that the government of the US empire allowed itself to be influenced by these groups, regarding the withdrawal of the license allowing Chevron’s oil operations in Venezuela.
“It is absolutely illegal and Venezuela rejects it, condemns it, and we will take all actions to stop the illegal action of ExxonMobil and the traitorous government of Guyana,” said the president this Wednesday, March 5, while leading an Assembly of Communes of the People’s Power, in the parish of 23 de Enero in Caracas.
President Maduro said that the US empire was led by “the extremist, narrow-minded, and failed right-wing,” and condemned the oil company Chevron, which has been operating in the country for more than a century. “By trying to harm the Venezuelan economy, they are harming themselves,” he added, “because we are going to continue producing, recovering, growing, and nothing and no one is going to stop us.”
After the statement, the president reiterated his activation of the Absolute Productive Independence plan because “nothing and no one is going to stop us,” he emphasized.
The head of state also condemned far-right leaders María Corina Machado and Juan Guaidó for celebrating the sanctions against Chevron. “That is why I support the overwhelming and majority sentiment of all the people of Venezuela,” he said, “to reject the renewal of sanctions launched by the US.”
President Maduro reported that, according to polls, 87% of Venezuelans reject this new set of coercive measures, and recalled that in the most recent years of the past decade, the sanctions “did a lot of harm to the Venezuelan people.”
“We have taken, with a very serious plan, the path of building a new economy,” the Venezuelan president highlighted, emphasizing the progress Venezuela is making in the face of these illegal and harmful measures.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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