The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez. File photo.
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez decried that the US-based oil giant ExxonMobil, with the complicity of “the Zelensky of the Caribbean,” Guyanese President Irfaan Ali, is planning a false flag attack in the Essequibo region to justify offensive retaliatory actions against Venezuela.
“They plan to attack an ExxonMobil platform to justify retaliatory action against Venezuela, and they plan to do so with a friend of María Corina Machado and Erik Prince, a US mercenary who would oversee this false flag operation,” the Venezuelan VP noted.
On Saturday, April 5, during an official event in Bolívar state, Rodríguez said that the traitorous opposition leader María Corina Machado is not the only one involved in this strategy. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US mercenary Erik Prince are also part of it. “They seek to criminalize Venezuelan identity by trying to establish the narrative that Venezuelans are criminals.”
Rodríguez cited Prince’s criminal record, calling him a hitman employed by the US empire in its wars in the Middle East. She added that during the July 28, 2024 Venezuelan presidential elections, Prince promoted a campaign to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro and attack Venezuelan officials. “‘Donate money; we’ll bring them down, we’ll kill him,’ ran the campaign,” she highlighted. “This hitman is orchestrating this false flag.”
The vice president added that on February 18, Guyanese security forces “staged a false-flag operation to blame Venezuela, the day before a Caribbean Community meeting where Guyana posed as a victim. They are shameless thieves.”
President Maduro Promises to Confront Guyana’s Illegal Activities in Undelimited Waters
Regarding evidence of ExxonMobil lobbying to revoke Chevron’s Venezuelan oil operation license from the US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Rodríguez said, “We await ExxonMobil’s response. We exhiibited documents showing that the company, together with Machado, lobbied the Trump administration to revoke Chevron’s license—a firm operating here for 100 years—to cut off Venezuela’s oil revenue.”
She noted ExxonMobil’s involvement in conspiracies to overthrow Venezuela’s government and assassinate its leaders. “ExxonMobil has remained silent. Silence implies consent,” she remarked.
Guyana is stealing Venezuelan oil and gas
Rodríguez said, “Guayana Esequiba belongs to Venezuela; it is our territory that we inherited with Simón Bolívar, and we will defend it.”
She accused Guyana of “repeatedly violating maritime boundaries and illegally extracting oil and gas resources that belong to Venezuelans.”
(Últimas Noticias) by Olys Guárate
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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