The President of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, denounced that the 2014 declaration of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) «is being threatened in a brutal manner» nowadays. During the Interparliamentary Meeting of the Greater Caribbean for Peace, he warned about the risks the region is facing.
He recalled that in 2014, CELAC declared the Caribbean as a zone of peace and free of nuclear weapons in a historic agreement. He emphasized that that moment represented «times of hope and true integration» among countries that looked toward «the possibility of growth and prosperity for their people.»
The Venezuelan parliamentarian is participating in a meeting that brings together representatives from Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela. From this multilateral forum, Rodríguez denounced the intentions of the U.S. government regarding Venezuela:
«It looms over the country with the sinister intention of promoting a regime change that would allow the United States government to seize the natural resources that belong solely to the Venezuelan people,» stated the president of the National Assembly during his address.
Rodríguez warned that the U.S. military deployment on the northern coast of Venezuela threatens all the countries of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. He denounced their actions as «true perpetrators of extrajudicial killings» without facing consequences for the destruction of small boats.
The deputy criticized the use of «futile» arguments about drug trafficking to justify these actions: «An action is being promoted where it is considered natural to attack the sovereignty of countries, to alter the freedom that we Caribbean countries have to carry out commercial activity, fishing, and trade by sea,» pointed out Rodríguez.