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La Paz.- Former Bolivian President Evo Morales (2006-2019) stated this Thursday that "every attack against Venezuela" is an attack against "all" America, following the announcement by United States President Donald Trump of the start of covert operations by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Caribbean country.
"The United States wants to seize Venezuelan oil at all costs. Any attack against Venezuela, against its territory, its people, or its government, is an attack against all of Our America," Morales posted on X.You may be interested in: Trump confirms he authorized the CIA to operate in Venezuela
The also former leader of the governmental Movement for Socialism (MAS) called on "the valiant Venezuelan people" to "defend their revolution and their president", Nicolás Maduro. "Those lands are cradles of American freedom and can never be subdued," concluded the former ruler. Trump stated on Wednesday that he authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela and, in addition, assured that he is studying the possibility of carrying out attacks against "drug trafficking" in Venezuelan territory after having sunk several alleged drug trafficking vessels at sea. For his part, Maduro affirmed that Latin America "repudiates" the CIA after denouncing the alleged participation of this institution in coups d'état in the region. Evo Morales was a political ally of the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and also of Maduro, and during his government, Bolivia distanced itself from the United States. The former Bolivian president also expressed his "repudiation" on the eve of the recent awarding of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, whom he accused of asking for the "military intervention of her country" and criticized for having thanked Trump for the award. "What kind of Nobel Peace Prize is he? That's why I say, the Nobel Peace Prize has died here. It should be renamed (to) Nobel Prize for death, for intervention, for invasion, or for looting. That's what it deserves," said the politician in a statement to the coca growers' radio station Kawsachun Coca. Morales also recalled that in the 1990s he was nominated as a candidate for the award, and that at the time the Argentine activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980, proposed him to receive the recognition. "But from the moment (former US President Barack) Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I began to distrust (...) We respect, but it should no longer bear the name of peace. It is not possible for Corina Machado or Obama to be pacifists," he expressed. In his opinion, promoting peace "is to fight for equality, condemn the concentration of capital in few hands, condemn the form of plunder, the re
