The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, warns of a very serious action by the United States government against a group of senior officials of the Venezuelan State, including the president, with the purpose of violating the nation’s peace and stability.
The text was read by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza. This letter is addressed to Heads of State and peoples of the world.
Following is the full text of the Letter from President Maduro for all world leaders:
«Your Excellency:
In greeting you with affection, I would like to address you on the occasion of denouncing the serious events taking place against the peace and stability of Venezuela, at a time when the concern of States and Governments should be focused on the protection of life. and the health of its inhabitants, due to the acceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As it is of public knowledge, on March 26 the Government of the United States announced a very serious action against a group of senior officials of the Venezuelan State, including myself, as Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
This action consisted of filing before the US judicial system a formal accusation, which is not only illegal by itself, but also seeks to support a fallacious accusation of drug trafficking and terrorism, with the sole objective of simulating the alleged judicialization of the Venezuelan authorities.
This American pantomime includes the unusual offer of an international reward to anyone who provides information about the President and senior Venezuelan officials, leading to a dangerous moment of tension on the continent, for which I consider it necessary to recount the events, which reveal the perverse plot behind the Department of Justice allegations.
Just a day earlier, on March 25, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounced before national and international public opinion, the development in Colombian territory of an operation that aimed to attempt against the life of the President of the Republic, his relatives and senior state officials; as well as attacking civilian and military objectives in our country; syndicating Mr. Clíver Alcalá, a retired general of the Venezuelan armed force, as military chief of said operation.
This denounce was made with full responsibility, after a control operation on the highway to the north of Colombia, near the border with Venezuela, was released on March 24, in which the police of that country captured a lot of war weapons inside a civilian vehicle.
Investigations revealed that it was a sophisticated arsenal whose intended audience was a group of Venezuelan and Colombian ex-military and paramilitary forces, who train in camps located in Colombia.
On March 26, the accused, Clíver Alcalá, offered a statement to a Colombian media – from his residence in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia – confirming his participation in the events denounced, confessing to being the military leader of the operation and revealing that the weapons were acquired by order of Mr. Juan Guaidó, national deputy, who calls himself Interim President of Venezuela and serves as Washington’s operator in the country. Likewise, he confirmed that the weapons were intended to carry out a military operation to assassinate high-level personalities of the State and the Venezuelan Government and produce a coup d’état in Venezuela.
Mr. Alcalá clarified that the weapons were acquired through a contract signed by himself, by Mr. Juan Guaidó, US advisers, and Mr. Juan José Rendón, political adviser to President Iván Duque, and carried out with the knowledge of Colombian government authorities.
In response to this confession, the unusual response of the United States government has been the publication of the accusations mentioned at the beginning of this letter, with the extravagant inclusion of the name of Mr. Alcalá, as if he were part of the Venezuelan authorities and not a mercenary hired by the United States in order to carry out a terrorist operation against the Venezuelan government.
As proof of this affirmation, I need no other proof than to mention the alleged capture of Mr. Alcalá by the Colombian security forces and his immediate handover to the authorities of the US DEA, in a curious act in which the prisoner, without handcuffs, was saying goodbye shaking the hands of his captors, right at the foot of the ladder of the plane that would take him on a special VIP flight to the United States, which shows that in reality all this montage is about the rescue of someone they consider an American agent.
It must be emphasized that the frustrated armed operation was originally designed to be carried out by the end of this month, while all Venezuela is struggling against the COVID-19 pandemic. And it is precisely that, precisely, this is the main battle that currently worries humanity.
A fight that our nation is successfully waging, having managed to stop the contagion curve, having reinforced health forecasts and keeping the population in a massive quarantine, with a low number of positive cases and deaths.
For all these reasons, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela alerts its distinguished Government to the reckless and criminal steps that the Donald Trump administration is taking, despite the fearful acceleration of the growth of COVID-19 that affects the American people, seems determined to deepen his policy of aggression against sovereign states in the region, and especially against the Venezuelan people.
During the pandemic, the United States government, instead of focusing on global cooperation policies on health and prevention, has increased unilateral coercive measures, has rejected requests from the international community to lift or relax illegal ones. sanctions that prevent Venezuela from accessing medicines, medical equipment and food.
At the same time, it has prohibited the implementation of humanitarian flights from the United States to Venezuela to repatriate hundreds of Venezuelans caught in the economic and health crisis in the northern country.
Venezuela, denouncing these serious events, ratifies its unwavering will to maintain a relationship of respect and cooperation with all nations, all the more in this unprecedented circumstance that forces responsible governments to work together and depose their differences, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the face of such serious circumstances, I request your invaluable support in the face of this unusual and arbitrary persecution, carried out through a refreshed version of that stale Maccarthism unleashed after the Second World War. Then, they pleasantly labeled their adversaries as Communists to persecute them, today they do so through the fanciful categories of terrorists or drug traffickers, without having any evidences, of any kind.
Condemning and neutralizing these unjustifiable attacks against Venezuela today will be very useful to prevent Washington from carrying out similar campaigns tomorrow against other peoples and governments of the world. We must all adhere to the principles of the United Nations Charter, to prevent excessive unilateralism from leading to international chaos.
Your excellency, you have the absolute certainty that Venezuela will remain firm in its fight for peace and that, under any circumstances, it will prevail. No imperialist aggression, no matter how fierce it may be, will divert us from the sovereign and independent path that we have forged for 200 years, nor will it take us away from the sacred obligation to preserve the life and health of our people in the face of the terrifying global pandemic of COVID- 19.
I thank you in advance for the consideration you have had in reading this letter, and I trust that it will be useful to keep your respected Government properly informed, an opportunity that I take this opportunity to reiterate the assurances of my most distinguished consideration.»
Sincerely,
Nicolás Maduro Moros
