In a video on Facebook, Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro said the citizens of the United States do not want another Vietnam war.
In his message to the Americans, “I am Nicolas Maduro and I want to send a message to the people of the United States, to alert them to the media war, psychological communication that takes place in the international media and especially in the US media, against Venezuela,” Maduro said.
“I call on the conscience, I call on your solidarity, I call on you to an awakening of the truth: we will not allow a Vietnam in Latin America. If the United States intends to intervene, they will have a Vietnam worse than you could ever imagine,” Maduro said.
Maduro vowed that Venezuela will not let the U.S. put its hands on the country’s vast oil reserves “as they did in Iraq or in Libya”.
Maduro continued, “Do not allow President Donald Trump and the group of extremists around him, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, the CIA, Mike Pence, to convince you of their lies about Venezuela, the coup they support, or their support for the people of Venezuela in their struggle for democracy.”
On Wednesday, Maduro explained that the United States’s show of concern for Venezuela is only to distract from their interest in the country’s reserves in oil, water, gold, gas, diamonds, coltan, aluminum, and iron.
