“What Venezuela is doing is a historic shift,” Vice President Delsy Rodríguez affirmed this Friday regarding the recent “brazen theft” of a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea, jeopardizing the region’s maritime and commercial security.
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“We are not managing the bourgeois state we inherited from the Fourth Republic. We are making a historic shift. And that historic shift, as the president has said, is the transition to a communal state. We are at that moment.”
Furthermore, Rodríguez emphasized that the objective of the United States’ illegal action is to “harm maritime oil trade” in the country.
In this situation, Venezuela officially requested the IMO to activate all channels and procedures provided for in international agreements to protect freedom of navigation and free maritime trade.
#Venezuela’s Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez pointed out that a historic change is taking place in the communal state, which is why they are attacking and deploying warships to supposedly combat drug #trafficking in the country. pic.twitter.com/Q56W2RurfD
— teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) December 12, 2025
“Venezuela is doing what must be done, which is to appeal to the law, to appeal to international legality, and to defend our natural resources,” the vice president emphasized.
¿What haven’t they sent to the Caribbean Sea?
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan leader referred to the military deployment in the Caribbean with the largest and most modern weaponry. “The military deployment in this area includes destroyers, nuclear submarines, and the aircraft carrier Gerald Ford, and it is ‘disproportionate, exorbitant, exaggerated.’
“Because they said they had sent nuclear submarines, destroyers—the largest in the world, the Gerald Ford—missile ships, fighter jets.”
“Something like this had never happened before in history. And they said it was to combat drug trafficking from Venezuela.”
Adjust your GPS.
Rodríguez further argued that the fallacies are unfounded, since “drugs are not produced or processed in Venezuela, and only about 5% of the drugs try to pass through here, not only through Venezuela but also through northern South America. Barely 5%.” That’s why we told them, adjust the GPS.”
He called on U.S. authorities, asking if their intentions to combat drug trafficking are truly genuine, to look not in the Caribbean Sea, but in the United States, on its own territory.
“Because all the logistical, financial, and drug distribution structures are in the United States. And the major drug traffickers are in Florida. And they finance campaigns. That’s the truth,” he stated.
General-in-Chief Vladimir Padrino
Through a forceful message delivered during the commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the Integrated Aerospace Defense Command, General-in-Chief Padrino López declared that the Trump Administration wants to subjugate the Bolivarian nation with lies and that surrender is a historical impossibility.
He recalled that using slander is part of the historical tactics of imperialism. He outlined how they began with the story of the nonexistent Tren de Aragua gang and even that the mentally ill and members of criminal gangs were sent en masse to the U.S.
“We are prepared to defend our country. Make no mistake, do not underestimate us. Your military deployment and your psychological operations will not break our spirit,” stated Padrino, who also affirmed that they are not afraid of the overflights of their fighter jets.
He addressed the people of the U.S. He distinguished between their heroic citizens, whom we love, he said, and the supremacist and lying administration, which does not care if its young people return as corpses.
He asserted that this government is an instrument of war and urged his people to listen to Venezuela’s cry for peace, its willingness to resolve conflicts through dialogue and politics, and not through force. He rejected the hijacking of a Venezuelan oil tanker and the imperialist ambition to steal natural resources that do not belong to them.
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