President Maduro stands in front of a massive tire. Photo: Venezuela Presidential Press.
On Monday, US President Trump claimed that the Venezuelan government “intentionally and deceitfully sent tens of thousands of high-level criminals to the United States, covertly, many of whom are murderers and people of a very violent nature,” including members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization, which Trump described as a “terrorist organization.” In response, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described Trump’s statement as “the biggest lie ever told about our country.”
Maduro noted that this accusation is comparable to the US allegations against Iraq in 2003, when the US claimed that Iraq was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. This unfounded claim, later proven to be entirely false, was used to justify the US military invasion and war against Iraq that left more than one million civilians dead.
Trump issued this false accusation against Venezuela on his Truth social media account in an attempt to justify the upcoming implementation of 25% “secondary tariffs” against any country that buys oil and gas from Venezuela.
Maduro said: “Do you believe it’s true and fair to say that Venezuela planned an invasion of the United States by criminals? It’s the biggest lie ever told about our country. It’s a lie comparable to the one about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, for example. It’s a lie that has the shame of an intention to attack a country, based on something that no one believes.”
“The first ones who don’t believe this are US society,” continued President Maduro. “The noble and decent people of the United States, citizens of that country, know that it’s a lie that Venezuela organized an invasion of the United States by criminals.”
He recalled that it is the global far right that finances and protects criminals such as Iván Simonovis, Leopoldo López, and Carlos Paparoni. He recalled that “they have brought the worst of the worst to their own land, because those who migrated for economic reasons migrated with a dream: the ‘American dream.'” He pointed out that many of the Venezuelans recently deported to the United States were everyday people and workers, including artists, barbers, and professionals. “I ask the noble people of the United States not to let this lie pass,” added President Maduro.
The Venezuelan head of state recalled that, in 2018, he created the Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland) plan for the return of migrants to Venezuela. In addition, during his comments, President Maduro called for a major global campaign “in defense of the truth about Venezuela” starting this Tuesday.
(Alba Ciudad) by Luigino Bracci Roa
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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Luigino Bracci
He is passionate about computer science since he was about 14 years old, at that age “a man gave me a small computer that he had bought in the eighties, of those that were connected to a television and had to be programmed to work (a Sinclair ZX81 ), and I really liked it.” On his political inclination, his parents were a great influence. “They were people of very humble origins, both emigrants, dissatisfied with injustice and inequality. But they were not militants of the left. I had many other influences, classmates in HS whose parents were on the left, as well as several teachers who were trained in the Pedagogical and gave us classes at a time as conflictive as it was the presidency of CAP and the military insurrection of Chávez ” He enrolled in the UCV and in 2006 he graduated in Computing, a career that he complements with popular communication in the digital field.
