Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend made controversial statements proposing to “liberate” Puerto Rico utilizing Brazilian troops.
In reference to United States President-elect Donald Trump’s controversial comments about taking management of the Panama Canal, Greenland and Canada, Maduro stated, “Simply because the North has an agenda of colonization, we’ve an agenda of liberation.”
Talking on the closure of the “Worldwide Anti-Fascist Pageant” hosted in Caracas, the authoritarian chief affirmed that the “freedom of Puerto Rico is pending, and we are going to obtain it with Brazilian troops.”
Puerto Rico has been an unincorporated territory of the USA since 1898. After a referendum in 1952, the island turned a “free related state” or commonwealth, and its residents can vote for a governor and a legislative meeting.
The feedback had been accompanied by historic reminiscences as Maduro claimed that this “agenda of liberation” was given to them by Simon Bolívar, who led the independence of many Latin American international locations. He additionally made reference to José Inácio de Abreu e Lima, a Brazilian navy officer who participated within the Spanish American Wars of Independence.
Maduro continued, “And Abreu e Lima will likely be in entrance, Abreu e Lima battalion to liberate Puerto Rico, what do you assume?”
Reacting on X, Eric Farnsworth, Vice President of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas (AS/COA) said that the transfer “lacks the punch of Fidel urging the Soviets to nuke Miami throughout the Missile Disaster, however perhaps he’s simply having a down day. Meantime, um somebody need to alert Brazil?”
In response to Maduro’s feedback, the governor of Puerto Rico, Jenniffer González despatched a letter to Trump accusing the Venezuelan chief of threatening to invade the nation.
On X, González said that Maduro’s feedback had been “an open risk to the USA and our nationwide safety.”
González branded Maduro a dictator and described his swearing-in ceremony as “illegitimate.”
The letter urged Trump to “swiftly reply and clarify to the Maduro narco-regime that the U.S. will shield American lives and sovereignty and gained’t bow all the way down to petty, murderous thugs.”
