U.S. warships have been deployed to waters off South America in an operation framed as targeting Latin American drug cartels, with U.S. naval officials citing concerns about Venezuelan involvement in large-scale drug operations. President Nicolás Maduro declared that U.S. forces cannot enter Venezuela and said the country is prepared and stronger to defend peace, sovereignty and territorial integrity. Venezuela's U.N. ambassador, Samuel Moncada, met with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to protest the military buildup, calling the deployment propaganda to justify possible kinetic action and ridiculing the use of nuclear submarines to fight drug trafficking.
There's no way they can enter Venezuela, Maduro said on Thursday, stating that his country was well prepared to defend its sovereignty as US warships arrive in the region in a so-called operation against Latin American drug cartels.
Today, we are stronger than yesterday. Today, we are more prepared to defend peace, sovereignty and territorial integrity, Maduro said in a speech to troops, according to the state-run Venezuela News Agency.
It's a massive propaganda operation to justify what the experts call kinetic action meaning military intervention in a country which is a sovereign and independent country and is no threat to anyone, Moncada told reporters after meeting with Guterres.
They are saying that they are sending a nuclear submarine I mean, it's ridiculous to think that they're fighting drug trafficking with nuclear submarines, the ambassador said.
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