Ghana condemns the US attack against Venezuela and criticizes its "colonial" ambitions

Nairobi.- The Government of Ghana condemned this Sunday the "unilateral use of force" by the U.S. against Venezuela and warned that the statements of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, "evoke the colonial and imperialist era and set a dangerous precedent for the world order", while calling for the release of the Venezuelan head of state, Nicolás Maduro.

"The Government of Ghana is following the situation in Venezuela with great concern and underlines that such attacks on international law, attempts to occupy foreign territories, and the apparent external control of oil resources have extremely adverse implications for international stability and world order," stated the Ghanaian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement. The Ministry referred to the words of Trump, who announced this Saturday that the U.S. "will lead" Venezuela until they can make "a safe, adequate and sensible transition" and that the large American oil companies are going to "enter" the South American country.

"Such colonial ambitions should not be allowed in the post-World War II era. Allowing this puts the international community at serious risk and undermines the sovereignty of all countries," the Ghanaian government highlighted.

Thus, "Ghana reaffirms its commitment to the principle of self-determination and maintains the firm conviction that only the Venezuelan people should freely determine their political and democratic future," he concluded.

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Ghana launched this forceful message after the African Union (AU) avoided directly condemning the US aggression, although it called for respect for the international order and stated in another statement that Venezuela's internal problems should be resolved with an "inclusive political dialogue" among its population. South Africa, for its part, highlighted that Washington's attack "undermines (...) the principle of equality between nations", while the Venezuelan chancellor, Yván Gil Pinto, affirmed on his Telegram channel that he had received messages of support from countries such as Namibia, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Chad, Angola, Niger and Gambia.

Maduro secluded in Brooklyn

Trump confirmed this Saturday that his country carried out "successfully a large-scale attack" on Venezuelan soil and that Maduro and his wife, congresswoman Cilia Flores, were "captured and taken out of the country". Maduro spent his first night confined in the Metropolitan Detention Center federal prison in Brooklyn, New York, where he faces charges of drug trafficking and corruption, while his vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, received the order from the Venezuelan Supreme Court to assume as acting president of the country.