President Ortega denounces Washington’s anti-drug justification as ‘false.’
On Tuesday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega denounced the illegal deployment of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean under the false pretext of fighting drug trafficking, and he expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan government and people.
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“The solution to the problem of drug trafficking is not to deploy military ships and aircraft around the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. They are not doing anything because the drugs keep reaching the United States,” he said during a graduation ceremony for officers at the Higher Center for Military Studies.
“The imperialist colonial powers have not learned the lessons that history has given them. Wherever empires have tried to dominate, they have ultimately been defeated,” said the leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
Since Aug. 14, the U.S. Defense Department has deployed air and naval forces in the southern Caribbean Sea near Venezuela’s coast with the stated goal of fighting international drug trafficking.
During the National Economic Meeting, the President of #Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, thanked the people of #Oslo, #Norway, and the entire nation for their overwhelming support in opposing the imperial aggression that the #UnitedStates continues to exert against the #SouthAmerican… pic.twitter.com/PsgMPh9hMQ
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Approved by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that decision is part of a U.S. policy that authorizes the use of military force against groups designated as alleged terrorist organizations, focusing on countries such as Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela.
The deployment order, which was secretly signed by U.S. President Donald Trump and revealed by The New York Times on Aug. 8, allows direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels such as Sinaloa and the now-defunct Tren de Aragua.
The U.S. government has intensified its pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom Washington accuses without evidence of leading the nonexistent Cartel of the Suns.
Several governments have raised their voices in rejection of extrajudicial executions carried out by the U.S. in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, which have killed at least 87 people since September.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Venezuela 🇻🇪, Yvan Gil, denounces that, given the failure of #US 🇺🇸 sanctions on the Bolivarian nation, they are resorting to psychological warfare, but the people are responding with confidence in the government and support for President… pic.twitter.com/ojhVWFADYI
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