Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil (left) and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right). Photo composition: Orinoco Tribune. (Diario VEA) by Yuleidys Hernández Toledo
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil condemned the false accusations made by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio against Venezuela and the United Nations about alleged narco-trafficking from Venezuela. “In his eagerness to attack Venezuela, Marco Rubio has lashed out at the UN and against all evidence that confirm that our country is free of drug cultivation and that we combat drug trafficking with exemplary effectiveness,” Gil commented. “This is the Nazi and gangster logic: deny the evidence, invent enemies, and sow hatred to cover up failures.
Rubio made the unfounded accusations on Thursday, September 4, after meeting with President Daniel Noboa in Ecuador. There, he discarded the UN reports that recognize Venezuela as a country free of illicit drug crops.
“I do not care what the UN says. The UN does not know what it is talking about,” said Rubio, and claimed that the constitutional president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, “is a fugitive from US justice. He is not the legitimate leader of Venezuela. He is a fugitive and is facing charges in the Southern District of New York.”
In response to these accusations, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Gil commented that Rubio is launching these attacks because “he is nervous, on the defensive, trying to cover up his absolute defeat in the policy of persecution against Latin America. And for added irony, he sits next to Daniel Noboa: the banana businessman who no longer exports fruits but drugs to the US and Europe with the complicity of the DEA [US Drug Enforcement Agency].”
He also condemned that Rubio “spat” his lies “from the sacred territory of Bolivarianism, the Ecuador of Bolívar, Sucre, Manuela Sáenz, and Eloy Alfaro. His words are an offense to the Ecuadorian people and their Armed Forces.”
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The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, is advocating for the return of foreign military bases, for which he is promoting a consultation. On the subject, Marco Rubio, after meeting Noboa, stated, “Ecuador is a sovereign country, if they invite us we will consider it, even here we had military bases and they asked us to leave during the years of [former President Rafael] Correa and we left. If they invite us to return, it is a very strategic point, we will study it, if it makes sense, if it also helps them with what they are facing, with illegal mining, with narco-terrorism, illegal fishing which is also a very serious issue. If we are asked, it comes from an ally and a friend.”
Criticizing this attempt to reinstate US military bases in Ecuador, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil questioned, “What would Ecuadorians think when they hear Rubio propose foreign military bases on their soil, while their president protects a drug business disguised as politics?”
“Rubio does not attack Venezuela, he attacks the truth, the history, and the dignity of our peoples. And in doing so, he confirms his fate: that of the failed politician who withers in hatred,” Gil added.
“With Rubio, what Einstein said is confirmed: two things are infinite: human stupidity and the universe,” he concluded.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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