US Navy near Venezuela turned fake

The last couple of days have been a stressful fake news suite. Three United States Navy ships approached the northern coast of Venezuela in preparation for invasion of the country, marking a potential beginning of a multi-year war that would extend in Vietnam fashion, over the rest of the continent. Such dreadful scenario has been averted as fake news. Investigators have determined that such ships are actually west of the Panama Canal or in Guantánamo, Cuba or the Gulf of Mexico: even one is in the English Channel near Dover, between England and France. Another aforementioned ship was actually in Japan, and another one near Jacksonville, Florida.

However, for some reason during the last couple of days, Venezuela has become paralyzed: due to this information that was reposted constantly through official and unofficial channels, requiring a thorough reassessment of personal relationships between everyone. Many people who were believed to support an invasion are actually patriotic and will defend Venezuela. Others are just pretending to surrender our country into the United States. It has been significant to see American reaction. It looks like the United States population does not welcome Donald Trump initiating World War III in the Caribbean, for the excuse of preventing drug traffic from Venezuela, which as confirmed by the United Nations is not even one of the most important drug trafficking countries in the hemisphere.

Carolyne Leavitt read a note on countering drug traffic from Venezuela, failing to supply credible sources. Not too long ago, when we had the Chevron license impasse, Tammy Bruce spoke about the ending license day, but Chevron continues producing oil in Venezuela. It seems like Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are too scared to talk to Nicolás Maduro while they have already talked to Vladimir Putin. Is Maduro more terrifying than Vladimir Putin? Both Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are afraid of speaking about issues concerning Venezuela. They always delegate the topic to their subordinates, such as Tammy Bruce or Carolyn Leavitt.

I would like to thank all United States citizens who oppose a war in Venezuela. We had an election with contested results. The results were never shown in Venezuela. They were published on a website, but the matter went to the Supreme Tribunal of Justice. and the evidence was not provided. Probably the election was stolen as happens in any country. Doesn't Donald Trump say that his election was stolen in the United States in 2020? Venezuela has a history of stolen elections. El Mocho Hernández in the 19th century had an election stolen. And in the 20th century, during the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the results favoring Jóvito Villalba were also stolen during an election. However, Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia was given the possibility of taking possession of his presidency at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC or in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic where he was present on January 10th.

Article 231 of the Venezuelan Constitution clearly states that the Venezuelan president-elect must be sworn in on January 10th of the following year after the election. Edmundo failed to do so. And he had the option of arranging his swearing-in ceremony not only inside an embassy: he could also be sworn in on an airplane with Venezuelan flag, or he could also have been sworn in on a ship with Venezuelan flag. He could have become president in exile. However, as Edmundo González violated article 231 of the constitution, Nicolás Maduro went in to the National Assembly on January 10th and he got sworn in. Thus ends story. 

We must wait until 2030 for next presidential elections. This page has been turned long ago. Venezuelans are horrified by this political process that never ends. Primaries for choosing Maria Corina Machado as a presidential candidate started in 2022. We are already in 2025. We have been nonstop for 3 years of political campaigns. That is enough. We have already concluded regional elections and municipal elections. Results are fine. Nobody has contested them. We need the president, the governors and the mayors to work.

Authorities from the Colombian mining and energy ministry are in Caracas right now with Delcy Rodriguez, as they fix terms of selling Monómeros fertilizer company to the Ecopetrol Company of Colombia. That should benefit both countries: Venezuela needs cash as we finalize that horrible history of interim government of Juan Guaidó who bankrupted that company. Same happened with Citgo. It seems that Citgo sale in the United States will happen soon. It has been deferred again. Citgo was a great business at a time. We had bad politicians and its management. It broke.

Venezuela can build new refineries in partnership with Colombia and Guyana. There is a huge project that can be started to benefit us all. American public is clever when they say they don't want any United States involvement in wars against Venezuela. United States doesn't care if we are a democracy or a dictatorship. They don't care whether we follow human rights or we don't follow human rights. Deals are sought in the name of human rights, in wars that United States gets involved all over the world. No one can really lecture another country on human rights, Israel may certainly be lectured, as it violates human rights in Gaza thru genocide, as determined by International Court of Justice.

International Court of Justice also examines Guyana Venezuela border dispute. We shall see how that unfolds. Marco Rubio recently alluded to Guyana elections as an excuse for deploying ships in Venezuela. Why on earth would Venezuela destroy oil infrastructure anywhere? We have worked with the petroleum industry for over one hundred years. We are experienced in that sector of the economy. Today United States is courting Guyana and is making war on Venezuela. One hundred years ago it was the opposite because of a Monroe doctrine. Will Guyanese vote by fear of United States sanctions?

Foreign minister of Brazil, Amorim, recently stated that even though they don't recognize presidency of Maduro, they still have a relationship with the Venezuelan state. Perhaps that would be a strategy that Guyana could pursue. Does Guyana really want to have the United States patrolling the Caribbean constantly? Drug comes to Guyana from Venezuela, and drug comes to Venezuela from Colombia. Petro told Maduro that there are cells of irregular guerilla movements, thriving on drug traffic in the border region.

The good side of this United States emphasis, is that regional countries in South America are determined to increase our security. Most importantly, it is time to identify who really wants to live for Venezuela, and who just belongs to the United States. When I speak about Venezuela, I could perfectly change the country for Guyana because it would be the same situation. Imagine Guyana ten, or twenty, or thirty years from now. After the current oil boom, United States would get angry at Guyana for whatever reason. United States would start harassing Guyana. Venezuela will still be your neighbor, Brazil will still be your neighbor and Suriname will still be your neighbor because you don't choose your neighbors.

 Your neighbors will remain next to you forever as they are countries. People just sell their houses apartments and move to live somewhere else, so that neighbors become different. On Earth you would have to wait millions of years for a separation of technonic plates. Guyana, Venezuela, Suriname and northern Brazil are on the same Guiana shield, which is the oldest land on Earth along with Australia. Nothing in this planet is as old as territories of Guyana, southeastern Venezuela, Suriname, Northern Brazil and Australia. No fault lines run in that geologically stable region. We will be neighbors forever.

Guyana electoral campaign unfolds uneventfully. Regarding United States and Venezuela situation, it is unfortunate that María Machado retweets Marco Rubio: all she wants is intervention by amplifying fake news. Expectations from people who want invasion and intervention once again will be destroyed. Those people are being identified, including Venezuelans in diaspora: many of them are working around the clock to destabilize Venezuela. They have worked to remove our oil licenses. As a result many Venezuelans are having a very hard time to earn a living. Those of us who have private businesses, we just find no clients willing to pay. 

Uncertainty arises from politics and military, economy is expected to be deranged. It is extremely sad to yield to the United States: look at Europeans in the European Union. They were all summoned by Donald Trump, with Zelensky in the White House. Donald Trump lectured to all of them. So where is the sovereignty of Europe? Do we in South America really want one day in the future to be summoned to the White House, so that Donald Trump or whoever is president of the United States later just lectures us? That is not our destiny.

Lesson from these two days of fake news, promoting war in the Caribbean, gets a strong reaction from Caribbean, Latin American and South American countries: so that we work further on our integration, so that we no longer require United States intervention. If we had a war with the United States, that wouldn't be easy. American soldiers will die. When has Venezuela invaded another country? We got Essequibo stolen from United Kingdom. We lost territory from Colombia. We have never been at war with anyone. 

We had a civil war in the 19th century, a little before United States civil war. In 1859 was our civil war, a few decades after independence: after that time we have remained in peace. Petroleum was found in the late 19th century and started being commercialized in the early 20th century. We now have a great petroleum industry, in need of refurbishing. It will be ideal to unite petroleum industries of Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela. We would build a pipeline into northern Brazil and into the Colombian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, Bolivian, Paraguayan, Chaco,Vaca Muerta and San Jorge in Argentina.

All of South America should be consolidated as a huge petroleum supplier. It is to the interest of South America that we become so efficient in our oil production and transportation industry that we may produce oil at very low average cost. We would sell crude profitably at $50 or $40 a barrel. It is possible to become profitable with economies of scale, if the whole continent develops, so that we can outsmart all our competitors. United States does not want petroleum at $40 a barrel or $50 a barrel because then their oil industry would crash: they would need to buy all their oil from us. Guyana can also easily sell oil at $45 a barrel. Probably the country would need to ask better terms from petroleum companies. We need political association between the South American countries, exemplified by what Petro and Maduro governments are doing with respect to Monómeros. They are moving in the right direction in that sale contract.

It remains unknown what will happen with Citgo. It will be painful to see Citgo go. What will exact terms be, of the tender that is being received by Citgo? Who will administer the money? Funds are frozen by United States authorities. Citgo was mismanaged by an interim government of Juan Guaidó, that was as corrupt as Nicolas Maduro's constitutional government. There has been corruption in all countries, the problem nowadays has become escalation into wars. You have to accept some sort of corruption if you have to support your country against an enemy aggression from abroad. This is really sad. Projects abound on how to unite our countries and culture, but it seems that the world just doesn't want peace. The world just wants to engage in war forever.

It is clear that those ships might come into the Venezuelan coast at any time, because president Nicolás Maduro has prepared four and a half million militias along with the regular army and navy. Venezuela will fight. We are not going to be invaded just as easily. We have seen what the Houtis are able to do. We have been learning from all over the planet what must be done if we get an invasion. You can't remove a dictator just to place another dictator. That doesn't work that way, sadly by excuse of drugs. To this date, we see absolutely no fresh ideas on how to curb demand for drugs in the United States culture. Everybody there thinks it's cool to be a drug addict.