Venezuela says that "the enemy does not rest" and asks oil workers to be alert

Caracas.- The Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, asked workers in the oil industry to be "very alert" by stating that "the enemy does not rest", a request she made amid tensions over the air-naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea by the U.S., a country she accuses of wanting to seize Venezuelan energy resources.

"We are not going to betray the sovereignty of Venezuela. This is the hour of the brave men and women. We are going to resolve this dispute peacefully," said Rodríguez in a video posted this Sunday on his Telegram account, from the headquarters of Petrocedeño, in Anzoátegui state (northeast), where heavy oil is processed.

In this context, he affirmed that "those who want war" will be "defeated" and Venezuela "will continue in peace" and in its "economic recovery process".

The also Minister of Hydrocarbons addressed the workers of the petrochemical company Pequiven and entrusted them with the development of Venezuela at a time when, she emphasized, Venezuela "is besieged, threatened" by its energy and natural resources, according to a video published on Saturday on her Telegram.

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"It is time to defend and not postpone for the future this dispute over Venezuela's energy resources. If there is something we have to leave to our sons, to our daughters, it is the legacy of a free, independent, and sovereign country. Never an energy colony of any foreign power," concluded Rodríguez. Since August, the United States maintains a military deployment in the Caribbean Sea, justified as part of its fight against drug trafficking, but which Venezuela interprets as an attempt to promote a regime change in order to impose "puppet governments" that grant Venezuelan energy benefits to the North American country.