WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump rejected the invitation to dialogue made in a letter by the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Ripe, stating that the letter was full of “lies,” the White House on Monday.
“Maduro repeated many lies in that letter, and the position of the administration on Venezuela has not changed,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on a press conference, in which Maduro as “illegitimate.”
“We consider that Maduro’s regime is illegitimate and the president has shown that he wants to resort to the means that are necessary to prevent entry into the United States from illegal mortal drug trafficking from the Venezuelan regime,” added the spokeswoman.
At least three boats that carried drugs were destroyed on the high seas by missiles of the United States forces, which have deployed a flotilla of eight ships in the Caribbean and a dozen fighters in Puerto Rico.
The Trump administration points to Maduro as leader of the Los Soles poster. The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of Treasury (OFAC) sanctioned on July 25 to the Los Soles poster and pointed to the organization to maintain links with the Venezuelan criminal gang the Train of Aragua and the Sinaloa cartel, from Mexico, through the use of drug trafficking as a “weapon” against the United States.
The publication of the letter sent by Maduro to the Trump administration occurred just one day after the president warned Venezuela of “incalculable” consequences if he does not accept the return of the deported immigrants, whom he described as “the worst in the world”, a statements to which Maduro replied that “enough of threats.”
National security
Maduro’s regime accuses the United States of committing “attacks illegally”, while Washington invokes dangers to his national security due to drug trafficking activities from Venezuela.
“I invite you, president, to preserve peace with dialogue and understanding throughout the hemisphere,” said Maduro’s letter, released this Sunday, but that would have been sent shortly after the first attack in the Caribbean, at the beginning of September.
Maduro also argues that they are “absolutely false” the signs about “links with mafias and drug traffickers.” In the letter he indicated: “It is the worst of fake news that has been thrown against our country to justify an escalation to an armed conflict that would do catastrophic damage to the entire continent.”
The Trump government announced a 50 million reward to achieve Maduro’s capture, which accuses of leading an international drug cartel.
The measures that the United States government advances to combat drug trafficking in Venezuela have an important expression in naval military deployment, through operation in the Caribbean.
Washington has sent several warships to the Caribbean, near the coast of Venezuela, and has deployed F-35 fighters found in Puerto Rico. Attacks against drugs loaded by the US armed forces have already left at least 14 dead in recent weeks.
