Moncada: If the United States were to desecrate our territory, we have a sacred duty to defend what is ours

Published at: 10/10/2025 05:10 PM

During his participation in the emergency meeting of the Security Council of the United Nations (UN), the permanent representative of Venezuela to the multilateral entity, Samuel Moncada, accused the United States (USA) of putting regional peace in “serious danger” through a “warmongering fiction” that seeks to justify aggressions against the Bolivarian nation.

Moncada referred to the recent U.S. bombing in the Caribbean against four vessels, which killed 21 unarmed civilians, calling it “extrajudicial executions” and not as self-defense. “The United States disguises its crimes wearing the mask of self-defense,” he said.

The diplomat noted that Washington acts under a “doctrine of shooting first and finding out later”, without presenting evidence about the identity of the victims, the load of the vessels or the imminence of an attack. “There's a killer lurking in the Caribbean,” he said.

He rejected that the real objective of the military escalation is drug trafficking and linked it to the interest of controlling Venezuela's oil reserves. “If Venezuela didn't have oil, the military threat wouldn't exist,” he said.

Finally, Moncada sent a strong message: “Venezuela is ours, it is not the United States,” and as guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter, he emphasized that Venezuela will exercise the right to defense.”

“We respect the United States. We respect your people who want peace. But we warn the world that if the United States were to attack Venezuela and its people, if the United States were to desecrate our territory, we have a sacred duty to defend what is ours, what we inherited from our ancestors and that we care for so that our children and granddaughters can enjoy,” he remarked.

Mazo News Team