The Venezuelan government condemned the US decision to continue recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido ‘as the country’s interim president. Action defined by Caracas as a “violation of international law, the Constitution and the democratic order”. In a statement, the foreign ministry accused the US State Department of “attempting to legitimize the operation of a transnational criminal group already notorious for its role in the appropriation and squandering of Venezuelans’ resources”.
According to the Maduro government “This new action is part of a failed and recidivist policy of the United States, which criminally affects the sovereignty of the country and tries to jeopardize its peace, stability and development”, reads the note. Therefore, the Venezuelan government has labeled Washington’s “lack of courage” in “trying to maintain a diplomatic relationship, dialogue and respect with the government of Venezuela” as “deplorable” and criticized the president, Joe Biden, for continuing. “its financial, diplomatic, economic and political persecution against Venezuela”. “It is time for the US government to abandon threats and rectify its” irrational, cowardly and neocolonial “position.
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