Argentina’s head of state Javier Milei has the actions of US President Donald Trump against the left-wing nationalist leadership Venezuela praised. His country welcomes the pressure from the USA and its president Donald Trump for the “liberation of the Venezuelan people,” Milei said on Saturday in Brazil. “The time for a timid approach to this matter has passed.”
Milei made the comments at the meeting of the South American Mercosur states in the southern Brazilian city of Foz do Iguaçu. “The cruel and inhumane dictatorship of the drug terrorist Nicolas Maduro casts a dark shadow over our region,” the ultra-liberal Argentine president continued. He warned that “this danger and this disgrace” on the Latin American continent “must not continue to exist.” “Otherwise they will take us all with them.”
In recent months, the US has brought several warships and the world’s largest aircraft carrier positioned off the coast of Venezuela and have repeatedly attacked boats belonging to alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific since September. More than 100 people have already been killed. Critics classify the attacks as extrajudicial executions and contrary to international law.
Trump does not rule out war
The USA throws Venezuela to actively promote drug smuggling into the United States and thereby endanger the security of the United States and its citizens. Venezuela’s left-wing nationalist President Maduro, however, suspects plans to overthrow him are behind the US actions. Trump did not rule out the possibility of war with Venezuela in an interview with NBC News on Thursday.
Brazil’s left-leaning president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warned on Saturday of the consequences of such a war. “Four decades after the Falklands War, the South American continent is once again exposed to the military presence of a foreign power,” Lula said at the Mercosur summit, referring to the 1982 conflict between Britain and Argentina over disputed islands in the South Atlantic.
Lula, like his Mexican colleague Claudia Sheinbaum most recently offered as a mediator in the conflict between the USA and Venezuela warned of “armed intervention in Venezuela”. This would be “a humanitarian catastrophe for the hemisphere and a dangerous precedent for the world,” he said.
