Maduro challenges America.. Venezuela does not want "Hello slaves"
The Venezuelan President said Nicolas Maduro He refuses "Hello slaves"noting that the American deployment in the Caribbean region puts the country "At stake" 22 weeks ago.
Follow Maduro on Monday during a rally attended by thousands of his supporters in Caracas "We want peace, but we want peace with sovereignty, equality, and freedom. We do not want the peace of slaves, nor the peace of colonialism"While US President Donald Trump intends to hold a meeting with the National Security Council to discuss the situation in Venezuela.
Washington says it is fighting drug cartels, and has deployed to this end since August military forces in the Caribbean, including the largest aircraft carrier in the world.
Chants of Maduro supporters
Maduro said: "We have lived through 22 weeks of aggression that can be described as psychological terrorism, 22 weeks during which they put us to the test. The people of Venezuela have shown their love for the country."
Supporters chanted "Maduro, the friend of the people, is with you" and"I don’t want to be a North American colony, yes, I want to be a Latin American power"
Regime change in Venezuela
And on Sunday, Trump that he spoke by phone with Maduro, who, the master of the White House, accuses his country of being behind the drug trade that is very popular in the United States, something denied by Caracas, which claims that Washington is seeking to change the regime in Venezuela and control the country’s oil reserves.
Since September, American forces have destroyed more than 20 boats suspected of being used in drug smuggling in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean, with strikes that left more than 83 dead.
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