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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned this Monday that his country will not be humiliated under any circumstances, as the population is not willing to yield to Washington's attempts to dominate the Bolivarian nation through various means, including the recent military deployment in waters south of the Caribbean Sea.
"No one is going to humiliate Venezuela. We are not going to accept the humiliation of the gringo empire, we will never accept the humiliation of the gringo empire. Never. No generation of Venezuelans is going to humiliate itself to the gringo empire. Never, neither today nor ever", affirmed the president in his program Con Maduro+.
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The warning arose after a reflection on China's centrality in the international arena after overcoming what has been called 'the century of humiliation', which began with the Opium Wars and concluded with the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. In this context, he predicted that Venezuela will see "the integral splendor of a homeland that has the right, with its work and effort, to the splendor of the development of happiness and peace". "We have earned peace through hard work and we will defend peace through hard work as well, in the circumstances that befall us, when it befalls us and where it befalls us. I fully trust in the strength of this people, I fully trust in their popular, military and police union to emerge from this more strengthened", he concluded.Escalating Conflict
- Last August, international media announced a U.S. military deployment in the southern Caribbean to supposedly confront drug cartels. Similarly, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, under the unfounded accusation of leading a "narcotrafficking cartel."
- This has been denounced by Caracas as maneuvers aimed at forcing a political change and seizing the natural resources that the South American country possesses.
- To deal with the U.S. deployment, Maduro called for voluntary enlistment in the Bolivarian Militia for the defense of the sovereignty of the South American country.
- Despite the increase in friction, the Venezuelan president has shown himself open to dialogue with the U.S. President, Donald Trump, as long as the "gunboat diplomacy" of his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is not imposed.
- Last Thursday, the Pentagon denounced that two Venezuelan military aircraft had flown "close to a U.S. Navy ship in international waters," in something it called a "provocative" move to interfere with its "counter-narcoterrorism operations" in the area.
- Subsequently, Trump threatened to shoot down Venezuelan military aircraft, if they put the U.S. "in a dangerous position."
- Meanwhile, Maduro declared that the country will move to armed struggle if it is subjected to aggression. In this context, he pointed out that Washington "must abandon its plan for a violent regime change in Venezuela and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean."
