Jorge Rodríguez warned about the consequences of a possible military confrontation in the Caribbean

The president of the National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, spoke at the Congress of Jurists for Sovereignty and Peace, where he warned of the consequences of a possible military confrontation in the Caribbean and questioned the justifications used by the United States to send troops to the region.

“Let's not wait a few decades for the documents of the Trump administration to be declassified and in that declassification it is said that the fight against drug trafficking was not true because we were lying, just as after hundreds of thousands of deaths, now the declassified documents say that the thing about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was a blatant lie,” he said.

He assured that it is not worth the suffering that a war situation in the Caribbean would entail, with incalculable consequences for all countries of the American continent and also for the United States.

The parliamentarian emphasized that international organizations, including agencies of the United Nations (UN), have recognized that Venezuela has a minimum level of drug trafficking and is one of the countries that has most effectively combated it. He recalled that, since the withdrawal of the DEA in 2005, seizures of illicit substances have increased, reaching almost 70 tons in 2025.

Rodríguez also denounced the U.S. military deployment in the Caribbean and the economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela for more than a decade, describing them as modern forms of blockade that have reduced national income by 99% in three years and have affected the social security system. He stated that, despite these measures, the country has managed to maintain free access to health, education, food, culture and sports.

He thanked international jurists for their presence and invited them to join our nation to denounce external threats. “Venezuela is a country of peace, but it is also a free country. Help us to maintain that peace and that freedom,” he concluded.

Mazo News Team