Nicolás Maduro: "If the gringos attack, we will respond"

Caracas.- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro assured this Wednesday that his country is increasingly prepared to defend itself from the United States, whose government he accused of wanting "a war in the Caribbean and South America", for which he stated: "If the gringos attack, we will respond". "If the gringos threaten, we work harder; if the gringos attack, we will respond, but work stops nothing, work for the homeland, work for the health of the people, for education, for the life of the people," he expressed in an act broadcast by the state channel Venezolana de Televisión (VTV). The U.S. maintains at least eight warships and a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine in the Caribbean, as well as more than 4,500 soldiers, under the argument of combating drug trafficking, but Maduro, as he reiterated this Wednesday, assures that it is an attempt to promote a "regime change" and impose a "puppet government". 

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