The World Peace Council (WPC) has issued a statement denouncing Donald Trump’s decision to deploy several US warships and several thousand Marines to the southern Caribbean off Venezuela’s coast. The international peace organization, which has around 100 member organizations active in countries throughout the world, says that the deployment threatens the territorial integrity of Venezuela “with a clear aim to interfere and intervene in the country.”
In addition to the naval provocation, Washington also doubled its bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50 million.
“This new and serious escalation of the US military is following the years-long actions of economic sanctions and strangulations of the US against the people of Venezuela,” stated the WPC on August 27. “The goal was always and is the control of the rich energy reserves of Venezuela and the destabilization of the country in total. We have always stood firmly against these actions.” The organization called the bounty on Maduro “an open violation of any sense of international law.”
The Peace Council is demanding that the US immediately end its aggression against Venezuela and withdraw its military from the region, and calls for solidarity with the people of Venezuela and support for their right to freely choose the country’s leadership and future.
Retrieved from the American Peace Information Center: American Peace Information Center – Continuing the work of the Peace Information Center, founded in 1950
