“The current deployment of U.S. warships in the Caribbean Sea is nothing more than a blatant example of the reedition of the old colonizing approach,” Padrino Lopez said in a statement commemorating Venezuela’s Indigenous Resistance Day, which honours the struggle of indigenous peoples against colonization.
He accused Washington of seeking to “intimidate by force,” adding that Venezuela’s people and armed forces were “fully prepared and united” to defend national sovereignty.
“The battle we are fighting today is the same as 500 years ago: the defense of self-determination and the right to define our own destiny,” he said.