SAEDNEWS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that the US plan to turn his country into its colony ‘will simply never happen’.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has said remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump about “reclaiming” Venezuela’s land and oil expose Washington’s true intentions, insisting the United States can “never” turn Venezuela into its colony.
Speaking at a rally in Caracas on Wednesday, Maduro said Trump’s comments showed that the United States was seeking regime change and control over Venezuela’s territory and natural resources.
“It is simply a warmongering and colonialist pretense. We have said this many times, and now everyone sees the truth. The truth has been revealed,” Maduro said, according to Press TV.
He directly responded to Trump’s claims that Venezuela had taken U.S. oil, land, and other assets, arguing that Washington’s real objective was to install a government that would surrender the country’s sovereignty.
“The aim in Venezuela is regime change—to impose a puppet government that wouldn’t last 47 hours, that would hand over the Constitution, sovereignty, and all our wealth, turning Venezuela into a colony. That will never happen,” Maduro said.
Trump made the remarks a day earlier on his Truth Social platform, stating that the U.S. military buildup around Venezuela would increase until the country returned “the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us.”
He also told reporters that Washington wanted back what he called U.S. “energy rights,” saying, “We’re getting land, oil rights, whatever we had… They took our oil rights.”
Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in the 1970s, sharply reducing the role of U.S. companies that had previously dominated the country’s oilfields.
Trump has repeatedly warned that the United States could carry out strikes against Venezuela and has accused the country of trafficking drugs into the U.S. He has also announced a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.
In his speech, Maduro urged Colombia to stand with Venezuela against what he described as external pressure.
“I call on the ordinary people of Colombia, its social movements, its political forces, and the Colombian military—whom I know very well—for a perfect union with Venezuela, so that no one dares touch the sovereignty of our countries,” he said.
According to a Venezuelan government statement, Maduro later discussed Trump’s comments in a phone call with UN Secretary-General António Guterres. During the call, Maduro stressed that such statements “must be categorically rejected by the United Nations system, as they constitute a direct threat to sovereignty, international law, and peace.”
