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Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez has strongly condemned an illegal US military attack that resulted in the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, demanding their immediate release and warning that Venezuela is prepared to defend itself.

Speaking in a live public address on Saturday, Rodriguez denounced the early-morning attack as “barbaric,” denouncing Washington for besieging and blockading Venezuela with the aim of forcing regime-change and seizing the country’s natural wealth.

“We demand the immediate release of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, the only president of Venezuela,” Rodríguez said, adding that the aggression had exposed the true objectives of the United States.

“The masks have fallen and it is clear that they had only one objective: A regime-change in Venezuela, so that they could seize our energy, mineral, and natural resources,” she said. “They want to enslave us again. We will never be slaves again, we will never be a colony of any empire of any kind.”

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[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

All good and well to say this now but I hope they're putting serious work into succession because when they next hold elections people aren't going to vote for some guy the US kidnapped years ago. They need to get a new figure to rally the people around from within the movement who is ideologically committed, loyal, and able to be popular and win elections. And also who isn't afraid of being kidnapped or killed by the US like their predecessor as the US will just designate them a narco-kingpin as well and try and pull the same shit. US is going to be working hard to undermine the next election there.

I don't think for a second that a lot of the US charges against Maduro like the machine gun one are going to stick because they're absurd (though who knows with this clown supreme court). At least on appeal I figure they'll be thrown out but that could be years from now. I do think they'll probably have some manufactured CIA evidence that paints Maduro as being the kingpin of this invented Venezeulan narco cartel they've invented and I do think they'll get a conviction for him on that via at least RICO (bring in some bribed "informants" who testify against him) and probably some other bullshit charges relating to like sanctions violations or violating the rules the US unilaterally imposed which is easy to get. So in other words I don't see him ever returning to Venezuela alive, they'll execute him or imprison him for the rest of his life. RIP.