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Caracas.- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, asked this Tuesday the citizens to have "absolute serenity" in the face of what he considers threats from the United States, which maintains a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea, under the argument of combating drug trafficking.
"Today they try to vilify our homeland, threaten it, absolute serenity, that the good ones will continue winning and the homeland will continue creating and growing," said the president at the presentation of the XX National Science, Technology and Innovation Awards Doctor Humberto Fernández-Morán, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).You may be interested in: Maduro asks to revoke the nationality of the opposition leader Leopoldo López
Maduro stated, without directly alluding to the US mobilization, that in the country science is not being developed to create atomic bombs or weapons of mass destruction, but rather that thought is being given to ways of curing cancer, controlling dengue fever, or how to "reverse" diseases like diabetes. "We are thinking of an applied science for life, for peace, for development, not for war or death," he insisted before a scenario that brought together the Minister of Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, researchers from different areas, indigenous people of the Yanomami ethnic group, as well as officials from the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB). On Monday, Maduro asserted that attacking Venezuela "militarily" would be "the political end" of his US counterpart, Donald Trump. According to the Chavista leader, there is "an effort by power sectors in the United States to destroy President Trump" with two issues, one about the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the other about the South American country. Trump insisted on Monday that he does not rule out any option regarding a possible military intervention in Venezuelan territory and said he is open to talking to his South American counterpart. The Republican pointed out that Maduro "has not been good to the U.S." and again accused his government of sending members of the Tren de Aragua gang to his country. On Sunday, the U.S. State Department announced that, starting November 24, it will designate the Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), a group that Washington links to Maduro, whose government considers that statement as "an invention".
