Venezuela vows to defend itself after US military destroys another ‘drug-smuggling’ boat – Morning Star | The People’s Daily
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VENEZUELA is ready to defend itself against “warlike aggression” by the United States, the country’s leaders vowed at the weekend after the US military destroyed a fourth alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean….
Mr Trump claimed on social media that the boat had been “loaded with enough drugs to kill 25 TO 50 THOUSAND PEOPLE” and implied that it was “entering American Territory” while off the coast of Venezuela.
President Nicolas Maduro told the Caracas conference that his country was ready to defend itself.
“Venezuela has the right to peace, to sovereignty, to existence, and no empire in this world can take it away,” he said.
“And if it is necessary to move from an unarmed struggle to an armed struggle, this people will do so … Colonialism no more.”
Neighbouring Colombia’s left-wing President Gustavo Petro accused the US of committing “murder” and urged the victims’ families to “join forces.”
Posting on X, he said: “There are no narco-terrorists on the boats. Drug traffickers live in the US, Europe and Dubai. On that boat are poor Caribbean youth.”
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