SAEDNEWS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro sent a formal appeal to all 193 UN member states and Caribbean leaders, warning of an "escalation of extremely serious aggression" by the United States.
In a letter read publicly by Foreign Minister Yvan Gil on Monday, Caracas called for global condemnation of US military operations in the Caribbean. The Venezuelan government is demanding an immediate end to naval blockades and “armed attacks” while requesting an independent multilateral investigation into alleged human rights violations, Anadolu Agency reported.
President Nicolás Maduro focused his grievances on “Operation Southern Spear,” a large-scale US naval and air deployment, which Caracas claims includes nuclear submarines off the Venezuelan coast. While Washington has officially described the mission as a counter-narcotics operation, Maduro’s letter calls it an “act of intimidation unprecedented in the region in recent decades.”
The letter details a series of military actions between September and December this year, citing 28 armed attacks in the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific against civilian vessels, resulting in 104 extrajudicial executions, “many of them in shipwreck conditions.”
According to Maduro, these actions constitute a systematic violation of international legal norms. The letter argues that the United States is acting outside the UN Charter, the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“Venezuela has not committed any act that justifies this military intimidation,” the document states, describing the US strategy as “the lethal use of force outside any international legal framework.”
The letter also notes that the operations have sparked “intense debate” in the US Congress over their legality and constitutional basis. Maduro warned that such acts of state piracy “pose a direct threat to the international legal order and global security.”
He further cautioned that the attacks will not only affect Venezuela but that the blockade and piracy targeting Venezuelan energy trade could disrupt global oil and energy supplies, increase instability in international markets, and impact regional and worldwide economies.
