The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, warned this Friday that the aggression currently being carried out by the Donald Trump administration in the U.S. "is against all of the Americas" and "against all of humanity."

"It is precisely the contempt for international public law, for international humanitarian law, the contempt for the peoples and for the life of the peoples of the world, that the extreme right-wing Nazi-fascist currents have when they take power," indicated the Venezuelan leader during a meeting with jurists in Caracas.

Maduro emphasized that "the resurgence of the worst imperialist and colonialist sentiments" in the current U.S. is against the peoples of the Americas.

The Venezuelan head of state pointed out that the first people who should know about this situation are the Americans themselves, as they are the ones who have to go to war. In that sense, he recalled U.S. military operations in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, among other countries, where Pentagon troops destroyed and ravaged populations, in addition to unleashing political and social crises.

CALL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

Awareness must also be raised among American youth, added Maduro, who warned that he knows the people of the U.S. do not want war in the world, and much less in the Americas.

"We cannot allow a militarist, colonialist current to emerge and impose itself, and come to kill innocent people in our America," expressed the leader, after recalling the feat of the Soviet Union when it "broke the spine of the Nazi army in Berlin."

"It is the people of the United States to whom I am addressing at this moment, before these 100 jurists from 34 countries, to tell them: stop the crazed hand of whoever orders the bombing, killing, and waging of a war in South America and the Caribbean. Stop the war, no to war!"

In this regard, he highlighted: "The people of the United States have to play a stellar role at this moment, to stop what could be a tragedy for all of our America. That is why we must speak of international law and the compliance with agreed and signed agreements."

VENEZUELA DENOUNCES FALSE PRETENSES

In the face of U.S. accusations, Venezuelan authorities have articulated a unified response that rejects the framework of bilateral confrontation and denounces it as a campaign of multilateral aggression.

Maduro described Washington's actions as a campaign to discredit his administration to "justify anything" against the Bolivarian nation. He affirmed that this strategy seeks to tarnish the image of Venezuela and its revolution as a pretext for aggressions, something they "have done many times."

The Venezuelan leader has explained on repeated occasions that the U.S. aggressions against Venezuela seek to "change the regime" in the country and take possession of its "immense oil wealth."

U.S. AGGRESSIONS

Since last August, the U.S. has deployed warships, a submarine, combat aircraft, and troops off the coast of Venezuela, under the declared pretext of fighting drug trafficking. Since then, it has carried out several bombardments against alleged narcotics boats in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, which have left dozens dead.

Parallelly, Washington accused Maduro, without any proof, of leading a supposed drug trafficking cartel. In this context, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi doubled the reward for information leading to his arrest.

In mid-October, Trump admitted to having authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations in Venezuelan territory. In response, Maduro asked, "Can anyone believe that the CIA has not been operating in Venezuela for 60 years? Can anyone believe that the CIA has not been conspiring for 26 years against Commander [Hugo] Chávez and against me?"

The actions and pressures from Washington have been labeled by Caracas as aggression, questioning the true reason for the operations.

This stance has also been put forward by Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, who, in a Security Council meeting, stated that U.S. actions in the Caribbean are not ordinary military exercises, but a "blatant campaign of political, military, and psychological pressure against the Government of an independent State."

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, condemned the bombardments perpetrated by the U.S. against small boats, which have resulted in more than 60 people killed.

The bombardments against shallow-draft boats have also been repudiated by the governments of Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil. (CubaSí)