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Caracas.- The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused this Wednesday the Government of the American president, Donald Trump, of financing a "fascist conspiracy" against the South American nation, for which he asked the civil and military authorities of his country to refine the plans of "security and protection of national peace."
The leader assured that this "conspiracy" is one of the three elements of a "nefarious equation", along with "Colombian Uribista drug trafficking" which, he said, "puts bombs, weapons and money against Venezuela", and "the criminal gangs that still survive around there".
"Faced with the trilogy of evil, the perverse equation of Colombian Uribista drug trafficking, the remaining criminal gangs, and the financing of the fascist conspiracy of the gringos, we have the secret weapon: the perfect popular-military-police fusion," Maduro expressed.
Maduro's Accusation Against Trump
According to the leader of Chavismo, these "three components (...) have come together", and while he assured that they are "contained and defeated", he said that they cannot be "underestimated". «Here are people conspiring to ruin the peace and tranquility of Venezuela, there are absolutely deranged people calling for civil war,» Maduro warned during a meeting, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). Likewise, the Venezuelan ruler accused, without showing evidence, the former opposition governor César Pérez Vivas of "organizing terrorist cells to plant bombs and kill people".The U.S. Position
On July 27th, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reiterated his "unwavering support for the restoration of democratic order" in Venezuela, and accused Maduro of being "the leader of the narcoterrorist organization Cartel de Los Soles" and "responsible for drug trafficking to the United States and Europe."
Washington recognizes opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia as the "legitimate president of Venezuela," despite Maduro being proclaimed the winner in the July 2024 presidential elections by the National Electoral Council (CNE) - controlled by officials aligned with Chavismo - which has not yet published the detailed results of these elections, contrary to what was established in its schedule.
