LATIN AMERICA - CARIBBEAN
24.12.25
So far, the US has seized at least 4 million barrels of oil ● "The US believes that the future of Latin America belongs to them," said Venezuela's ambassador.
Venezuela stated at the United Nations Security Council that the United States has "ambitions" not only for Venezuela but for a large part of Latin America.
Venezuela stated at the United Nations Security Council that the United States has "ambitions" not only for Venezuela but for a large part of Latin America.
"It's not just about Venezuela. The ambition is continental," said Venezuela's Ambassador to the UN, Samuel Moncada, at a meeting of the 15-member UN Security Council on Tuesday.
"The US government has expressed this in its National Security Strategy; it believes that the future of the continent belongs to it," Moncada stated. "We want to alert the world that Venezuela is only the first target of a broader plan," Moncada reports, at a time when the US is waging an unofficial war, leaving over 100 dead, for the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro. "The US government wants to divide us so that it can conquer us piece by piece," he continued.
At the Security Council meeting, Moncada also accused the administration of US President Donald Trump of violating both international and US domestic law, as the White House is acting without the approval of the US Congress, whose authority is required to officially declare war on another country.
The imposition of a naval blockade on all Venezuelan oil tankers by Trump last week was a "military act aimed at besieging the nation of Venezuela." "Today, the masks are off," Moncada said. "It's not drugs, it's not security, it's not freedom. It's oil, it's mines, and it's land."
Earlier this month, Venezuela requested a meeting of the UN Security Council to address the "ongoing US aggression," which began in September when the White House launched airstrikes against ships in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The White House claimed, without providing any evidence, that the ships were trafficking drugs to the US.
At least 105 people have been killed so far in the attacks by US forces, which legal experts and Latin American leaders have described as "extrajudicial killings," but Washington insists they are necessary to stem the flow of drugs to US shores.
US forces seized at least two Venezuelan oil tankers and at least 4 million barrels of oil, according to Moncada, in a move he called "robbery committed by military force."
"The US government has expressed this in its National Security Strategy; it believes that the future of the continent belongs to it," Moncada stated. "We want to alert the world that Venezuela is only the first target of a broader plan," Moncada reports, at a time when the US is waging an unofficial war, leaving over 100 dead, for the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro. "The US government wants to divide us so that it can conquer us piece by piece," he continued.
At the Security Council meeting, Moncada also accused the administration of US President Donald Trump of violating both international and US domestic law, as the White House is acting without the approval of the US Congress, whose authority is required to officially declare war on another country.
The imposition of a naval blockade on all Venezuelan oil tankers by Trump last week was a "military act aimed at besieging the nation of Venezuela." "Today, the masks are off," Moncada said. "It's not drugs, it's not security, it's not freedom. It's oil, it's mines, and it's land."
Earlier this month, Venezuela requested a meeting of the UN Security Council to address the "ongoing US aggression," which began in September when the White House launched airstrikes against ships in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The White House claimed, without providing any evidence, that the ships were trafficking drugs to the US.
At least 105 people have been killed so far in the attacks by US forces, which legal experts and Latin American leaders have described as "extrajudicial killings," but Washington insists they are necessary to stem the flow of drugs to US shores.
US forces seized at least two Venezuelan oil tankers and at least 4 million barrels of oil, according to Moncada, in a move he called "robbery committed by military force."
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