Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, denounced before the Security Council on Tuesday that the United States has committed acts constituting a “crime of aggression” against his country, including a naval blockade, the theft of 4 million barrels of oil, and electronic warfare operations in its airspace—actions that violate international law and threaten regional peace.
During the session entitled “Threats to International Peace and Security,” Moncada presented a detailed accusation against the US government, based on recent statements and actions attributed to President Donald Trump and senior officials in his administration.
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“Today I am ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela,” Trump stated on December 16, as Moncada recalled. The ambassador described this statement as a “confession of a crime of aggression,” whose objective, he said, is “to turn back the clock of history 200 years to impose a colony on Venezuela.”
Moncada explained that on December 10, U.S. military units intercepted a legitimate merchant vessel carrying Venezuelan oil in international waters in the Caribbean. According to his account, the crew was subdued and kidnapped, and the cargo was illegally seized. “This theft carried out by military force is worse than piracy,” he stated, warning that it sets an “extremely dangerous precedent for the safety of navigation and international trade.”
A second, similar incident occurred on December 20, when another vessel carrying Venezuelan oil was boarded by U.S. military forces in international waters in the Caribbean, with the same result: cargo stolen and crew detained. Moncada highlighted that U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that these types of operations would continue, and that Trump publicly declared he would “keep the stolen cargo.”
“By what right does the U.S. government appropriate 4 million barrels of Venezuelan oil?” the ambassador questioned, emphasizing that these actions are part of a “supposed naval blockade” whose purpose is to besiege Venezuela, degrade its economy and military apparatus, weaken its internal cohesion, and “provoke internal chaos in order to facilitate aggression by external forces.”
In addition to the maritime blockade, Moncada denounced an electronic warfare campaign in Venezuelan airspace. He recalled that on November 29, Trump declared that “all airlines should consider the airspace over and around Venezuela as totally closed.” He asserted that this order has been implemented through electronic interference that blinds the navigation instruments of civilian aircraft.
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The ambassador warned that these interferences “have nearly resulted in at least two tragedies,” including incidents in which U.S. civilian aircraft came within seconds of colliding with U.S. Air Force planes. Furthermore, the risk extends to the airspace of other nations, such as the Netherlands Antilles.
Moncada maintained that these actions seek to “fabricate a provocation that allows them to falsely invoke Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations,” which authorizes self-defense. “The aggressor needs its propaganda machine to present it to the world as the victim of aggression in order to initiate an armed conflict,” he explained.
In his remarks, the Venezuelan diplomat linked these aggressions to the Monroe Doctrine in the 21st century, aggravated, he said, by a “Trump corollary” that seeks to “divide and conquer the continent piece by piece.” He recalled that Latin America and the Caribbean were declared a “zone of peace” by CELAC in 2014, and affirmed that the actions of the United States represent a “threat to the entire region.”
“The threat is not Venezuela, the threat is the United States government,” Moncada concluded, reiterating that his country “will not lose its composure in defending the peace of our nation,” but warned that the events presented constitute a “cumulative process of aggression that increases the destructive impact on the Venezuelan nation.”
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