Maduro clarifies that communications with the U.S. “are undone”

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said on Monday that communication channels with the U.S. government “are broken,” while warned that the Caribbean country is suffering “an aggression on the way of a military nature.” “Communications with the U.S. Government are undone, they are undone by them, with their bomb threats, death and blackmail,” he emphasized at a press conference.

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At the beginning of the month, Maduro had announced that his Executive had two communication channels with Washington, “battered” and “failed”, but now he has declared them finished. “That’s not how we operate, with threats and by force, never ever, there will be anything! And they know it. So they went from a stage of damaged communication relations to broken ones,” stated the Venezuelan president. To another question, Maduro ratified that “it is not Caracas’ responsibility” for the communications breakdown. However, he clarified that they maintain “a basic thread” with the ‘ad interim’ Charge d’Affaires of the U.S. External Office for Venezuela, John McNamara.

Threats and tensions

The Donald Trump administration has raised its belligerent tone against Caracas since last August, when international media announced a US military deployment in the southern Caribbean to confront drug cartels. Similarly, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of Maduro on charges of leading a “narcotics trafficking cartel.” For Caracas, Washington’s true intention with these maneuvers is to force a change of policy in Venezuela, which allows the White House to seize the natural resources that the South American country possesses.

• To deal with the US deployment, Maduro called for voluntary enlistment in the Bolivarian Militia for the defense of the nation’s sovereignty.
• Despite the increase in friction, the Venezuelan president has shown himself open to dialogue with Trump as long as the “gunboat diplomacy” of his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is not imposed.
• The previous week, the Pentagon denounced that two Venezuelan military aircraft had flown “close to a US Navy ship in international waters”, which it described as a “provocative” move to interfere with its “operations against narcoterrorism” in the area.
• Subsequently, Trump threatened to shoot down Venezuelan military aircraft, if they put the US “in a dangerous position”.
• Meanwhile, Maduro declared that they will resort to armed struggle if an aggression materializes. In this context, he affirmed that Washington “must abandon its plan for a violent regime change in Venezuela and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean”.