Padrino López warns the head of the Southern Command: The FANB is deployed to protect Venezuelan waters

Published at: 15/03/2024 01:35 PM

The Sectorial Vice President for Political Sovereignty, Security and Peace, Vladimir Padrino López, warned the head of the United States (US) Southern Command, Laura Richardson, that the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) is deployed to protect the waters that belong to Venezuela.

During his participation in the event for the 15th anniversary of the services of the Ministry of Popular Power for Defense, in Caracas, Padrino López criticized the interference of North American imperialism in the territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo, after Richardson announced military exercises in waters to be delimited in this space.

“Nobody has invited the United States to meddle in issues that belong entirely to Venezuela and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, but then they want to send permanent military exercises on everything that is the façade in the waters to delimit the Essequibo territory and so they want to get involved irresponsibly,” he warned.

He pointed out that these actions jeopardize “regional peace, which the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean have signed with great vehemence to declare our region a zone of peace; well, that zone of peace is endangered by the presence of the Southern Command there in the lands and in the waters to be delimited between Venezuela and Guyana.”

“The Bolivarian National Armed Forces are deployed there through Operation Sifontes to protect the waters that, incontrovertibly, belong to Venezuela,” emphasized the Minister of Popular Power for Defense.

In this regard, he urged the United States to move away because this is not an issue for them but “for the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, under the umbrella of the Geneva Agreement, to seek a practical, satisfactory solution between the parties and, in addition to that, acting in accordance with what was agreed in Argyle.”

Mazo News Team