By pointing out the threats of invasion that followed the Arbitration Award (of 1899), which sought to legalize the dispossession of territory that was unequivocally Venezuelan, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, asserted that “the objective of the empires has always been to end the example of Venezuela for the Americas and the world.”
During the Meeting with Cadets of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), held in the Poliedro of Caracas, he pointed out that the maneuvers to break up the territory are nothing more than failed attempts to bury the guide left by the liberators who – from Venezuela – forged the independence of South America:
“They wanted to disappear from the map the land where the Liberator of America was born, and put an end to the example of Venezuela for the Americas and the world, an objective that the European empire and the empire of Washington had in mind, “always the empire of the United States, that still prevails,” he pointed out.
He explained that, starting in 1900, the British Empire intensified its aggression against Venezuela to invade the territory, a situation that occurred at a time when the South American nation “did not have rifles to defend itself, did not have soldiers, did not have armies.”
