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Venezuela Vice President: “We are absolutely against the use of force”\n <\/p>\n
Venezuela Vice President: “We are absolutely against the use of force”<\/p>\n
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\n Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez demanded Saturday the \u201cimmediate release\u201d of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, who were captured overnight during a US military operation.\n <\/p>\n
\n Rodr\u00edguez made the demand hours after the capture of Maduro and Flores, carried out during a US operation in Caracas and other parts of the South American country. Washington has justified the action by arguing that the couple and other Venezuelan public figures are responsible for narco-terrorism, drug trafficking and other crimes \u2013 charges that Caracas rejects.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe demand the immediate release of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Rodr\u00edguez said Saturday afternoon during a session of the National Defense Council that was broadcast by state television network VTV. She called Maduro \u201cthe sole president of Venezuela.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Alongside other senior officials, Rodr\u00edguez described the capture of Maduro and Flores as a \u201ckidnapping,\u201d said that violations of international law were committed and accused US forces of having \u201csavagely attacked\u201d Venezuela\u2019s territorial integrity.\n <\/p>\n
\n The vice president added that the Venezuelan government will issue a decree declaring a \u201cstate of external emergency,\u201d which it will submit to the country\u2019s Supreme Court for validation. She called on the public to prepare to \u201cdefend\u201d the country, without providing details.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe are calling for the defense of life. Not a single Venezuelan man or woman should remain on the sidelines, because the extremists who have provoked this armed aggression against our country will be made to pay by history and justice,\u201d Rodr\u00edguez said. She urged other Latin American governments to support Venezuela.\n <\/p>\n
\n Rodr\u00edguez\u2019s remarks contrasted with those made shortly before by US President Donald Trump, who said at a press conference in Florida that Secretary of State Marco Rubio had spoken with the vice president and that she, according to Trump, had expressed willingness to cooperate in a new phase for the country.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere is a vice president who was appointed by Maduro; at this moment she is the vice president. I imagine that the president has just assumed power. She had a conversation with Marco. She said, \u2018We\u2019ll do whatever you need.\u2019 I think she was quite courteous. We\u2019re going to do this right,\u201d Trump said.\n <\/p>\n
\n CNN has contacted the US State Department and is seeking to contact Venezuela\u2019s vice presidency for comment on the conflicting statements.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuela Vice President: “We are absolutely against the use of force” Venezuela Vice President: “We are absolutely against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-672169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115833860461643442","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}