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Caracas.- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said on Monday that he hopes the "Vatican diplomacy" will help his country to "preserve peace", in a context in which he denounces the intention of the U.S. to promote a "regime change" with its naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea, although the U.S. president, Donald Trump, assures that it is to combat drug trafficking.
In his weekly program 'Con Maduro +', the Chavista leader indicated that he sent a letter to Leo XIV, as reported last Saturday, in which he asked the Pope to "help Venezuela preserve peace, stability" and to "embrace" the South American country "with the diplomacy of the Vatican".
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"Pope Leo has positioned himself as a balanced pope, of peace, continuing the legacy of Francis. It is not usual in the history of the papacy to see a pope who arrives and vindicates the previous pope," Maduro considered in his program, broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). The ruler underlined that Venezuela has received help from the Pope for the rescue of children he considered "kidnapped" in the United States. "There are still 70 children kidnapped, aged one, two, three, four years old. We have already rescued more than 45," he indicated. Maduro mentioned the canonization, on October 19th, of the doctor José Gregorio Hernández, which, in his opinion, "has a great significance" at this moment when Venezuela is "stalked, threatened by the greatest military power in history", referring to the United States.This Monday, dozens of Chavismo supporters, along with authorities, marched in Caracas to the Office of the Resident Coordinator of the UN in Venezuela to demand that the multilateral organization uphold the principles established in the United Nations Charter, among which it mentioned that of "maintaining international peace".
