Alwaght-Venezuela has rejected false accusations and the repeated assaults by the U.S. authorities against the government of Nicolás Maduro and accused Washington of pursuing regime change.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Venezuela released an official document rejecting "categorically" the recent statement issued by the United States which, according to the complaint by Venezuelan authorities, evades the responsibility of that nation in the repeated aggressions against the people of Venezuela and while launching false accusations against the Government of President Nicolás Maduro.
"Venezuela rejects the distorted interpretation that the US Government has given to the accusations that (...) the Venezuelan authorities have made to alert the world about the serious threat that hangs over our country", begins the official statement
The document denounces that the Trump administration "finances, protects and encourages groups that are violently seeking the removal of the government," and that "it articulates an international strategy, obscenely pressuring sovereign nations to join this strategy." of neo-colonization of Venezuela.”
He added that President Maduro "has made permanent calls to the Government of Donald Trump to rebuild relations based on respect, dialogue and non-interference", to which Trump has responded by increasingly breaking the relations between both countries.
"The US government has tried to impose illegal unilateral sanctions, it has financed terrorism, it has supported extremist groups, it has made calls for the insurrection to the Armed Forces, going so far as to threaten Venezuela with military intervention," the statement said.
