UNITED NATIONS, United States: Venezuela called Friday at the United Nations for solidarity against the \u201cthreat\u201d of the United States, which has carried out deadly strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs they can\u2019t accuse Venezuela of having weapons of mass destruction or nuclear weapons, they\u2019re making up vulgar and perverse lies that no one believes, neither in the United States nor around the world, to justify an atrocious, extravagant and immoral multi-billion-dollar military threat,\u201d Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto said in an address to the General Assembly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to thank the governments and peoples of the world, including from the United States, for denouncing this attempt to wage war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has deployed eight warships and a nuclear-powered submarine to the southern Caribbean as part of a stated plan to combat drug trafficking.<\/p>\n
US forces have destroyed at least three suspected drug boats in the Caribbean in recent weeks, killing over a dozen people in a move decried as \u201cextrajudicial execution\u201d by UN experts.<\/p>\n
The United States has also refused an appeal for dialogue by President Nicolas Maduro, a firebrand leftist not recognized by the United States after wide allegations of irregularities in his last election.<\/p>\n
Maduro and his late predecessor Hugo Chavez had once been regular presences at the annual week of leaders\u2019 meetings at the United Nations.<\/p>\n
Maduro did not come this year, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio describing him as a fugitive from justice over a US indictment on drug-trafficking allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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