The White House applies a policy of “maximum pressure” on the South American president that includes military threats and unfounded claims of ownership over the riches of the Venezuelan subsoil.
President Nicolás Maduro confirmed this Friday that he remains willing to maintain direct conversations with the US authorities, as long as these take place “on the basis of respect.”
“Our message is one of peace, love and understanding. And if one day in the United States it occurs to someone, on the basis of respect, to talk and overcome failed projects of more than 25 years, here there will always be a president who represents his people to extend his hand and seek paths of peace, cooperation and prosperity. It had to be said and it was said,” he declared in a work day broadcast on his social networks.
In the same line of affirmation of the sovereignty of the Bolivarian nation, he asserted that “it is impossible for sectors of US power to manufacture a virtual reality and impose on the Venezuela of [Simón] Bolívar a model of colonial and slave domination to steal its natural resources.”
