Ambassador Cesar Trompiz, along with the diplomatic and local staff of this mission, expressed their condemnation of the United States’ offenses against that South American country.

The statement states that “our diplomatic work is and will be a trench for the truth of Venezuela, for the Bolivarian elevation of peace, and a bulwark against the attacks that the North American empire intends against our president and commander-in-chief.”

Previously, Bolivian President Luis Arce criticized Trump’s offer, calling it an “unacceptable offense by the United States government against our brother President Nicolas Maduro.”

According to Arce, offering a reward for the capture of a democratically elected president is a colonialist practice, an attack on the sovereignty and dignity of Venezuela and our peoples.”

The Bolivia Chapter of the Anti-Fascist International issued a similar statement, stating: “From the Anti-Fascist International, Bolivia Chapter, we express our deepest rejection of the recent statements by the President of the United States.

“The Bolivarian Revolution, led by Commander Hugo Chavez and continued by President Nicolas Maduro, is a struggle for independence, for the well-being of the Venezuelan people, and for the self-determination of the peoples of Latin America,” the statement concludes.

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