Jorge Rodríguez: Declaration of the region as a territory of peace is in danger

Published at: 31/10/2025 12:13 PM

The declaration of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), in 2014, of the region as a territory of peace and free of nuclear weapons is being threatened by the US military presence in the Caribbean, said the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez.

“At the present time, there is undoubtedly a threat hanging over Venezuela with the intention of promoting regime change that allows the United States and the imperial hegemon to seize the natural riches that belong to the People of Venezuela,” Rodríguez said during the installation ceremony of the Meeting of Parliamentarians of the Greater Caribbean for Peace.

In this regard, he emphasized that Washington's warmongering actions only seek to allow imperialism to appropriate the oil, mining resources, rare earths and other resources that underlie our territory.

“Not only is Venezuela threatened. All countries in the Caribbean, North America, Central America and South America are threatened. With brutal military deployment, they set themselves up as executors of extrajudicial killings without trial for the blowing up of small ships at sea,” he said, while highlighting the disproportionality of the weapons deployed by the United States in the vicinity of our country.

In the same way, he stressed that these US actions violate the global legal order and especially with regard to the rights of the sea. “An action is being promoted in which it is natural to attack the sovereignty of countries, to alter the freedoms of Caribbean countries to carry out the maritime commercial activity that each country is responsible for carrying out,” he stressed.

On the other hand, the president of the Venezuelan parliament criticized the inaction of the United States to combat drug trafficking and consumption as well as the money laundering caused by drug trafficking.

“The real drug traffickers live in the United States and Europe,” he stressed while assuring that the deployment of the United States in the Caribbean does not seek to combat drug trafficking and, on the contrary, is an attempt to attack Venezuela and the countries of the Caribbean.

Mazo News Team