The Prosecutor General of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Reinaldo Muñoz, formally denounced the United States today for systematically and flagrantly violating Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, in the context of the alleged kidnapping of Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, fourteen days ago.
During his address at the meeting of the Network of Jurists, held in the Ríos Reina Hall of the Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas, the high-ranking official detailed a series of fundamental principles of international law that have been violated by the US government:
“The United States has disregarded almost all of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter,” Muñoz emphatically stated, specifically listing:
– The violation of the principle of the prohibition of the use of force.
– The violation of the principle of sovereign equality among States.
– The violation of the obligation to settle disputes through peaceful means.
– The violation of the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other States.
Prosecutor Muñoz placed these illegal acts within a long-date strategy: “Since 2002, the US has implemented a series of plans to concrete what they call a regime change,” he stated, and pointed out that the ultimate goal of these actions would be to seize Venezuelan sovereignty in order to appropriate the country’s vast natural resources.
In this regard, the Attorney General harshly criticized the statements by the US government, which exposed “in a crude and shameless manner” that “the happiness of the American people depends on their administration being able to seize Venezuelan oil resources.” Muñoz denounced that this intention has been tried to get masked under a fabricated narrative “against drugs.”
Finally, Reinaldo Muñoz maintained that these contradictions and narratives are absurd, however “they served as the basis for bombing Venezuela and kidnapping its head of state,” thus consolidating an integral denounce against Washington’s foreign policy towards Venezuela.