Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned that US imperialism’s interest in the South American country is focused on seizing its vast energy and mineral resources. He stated this during a community assessment held in the El Valle parish of Caracas:
«They’re coming for the Venezuelan oil, they want it for free, (they come) for the gas, but that oil doesn’t belong to Maduro, much less to the gringos. It belongs to you, that oil. Do you hear? It belongs to the Venezuelan people,» the president firmly declared to his supporters.
Maduro explained that external aggressions respond to two fundamental reasons. The first and most obvious is the desire to control strategic resources such as oil, gas, and gold. However, he emphasized that there is a second, even more powerful objective for imperialism:
«They are coming for a second asset that is more powerful than any other, and that is Simón Bolívar’s Project, the Revolutionary Project of 21st-Century Socialism,» he asserted. The ultimate goal of the US is to dismantle this alternative political model that Venezuela represents.
The head of state specifically referred to the recent naval mobilizations by the US, attributing them to a strategy to fabricate a false narrative. He asserted that figures like Senator Marco Rubio exert a negative influence, seeking to «fill the hands of President Donald Trump with blood.»
President Maduro also maintained that the United States seeks to prevent his democratic and peaceful example from inspiring other nations, including the youth in the US: «We tell them that Venezuela does not spend its budget on wars, invasions, or missiles against the people,» he declared, emphasizing the model of territorial democracy and popular participation.
To end, the President expressed confidence in the resilience of his people: «Here is the president-people, standing up for his people… In Venezuela, peace, equality, democracy, and freedom will continue. I tell the empire that they will never, ever be able to defeat the Venezuelan people,» he concluded.