“Let’s not fool ourselves, there is no fight against drugs, nor for democracy, nor for humanitarian purposes, nor anything of the sort,” a statement released to Prensa Latina stated, adding that the only desire is to seize Venezuela’s oil and natural resources and punish its decision to embrace socialism.

The statement notes that on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump released a video showing an alleged attack by his country’s armed forces in international waters against “what he called a drug ship from Venezuela, resulting in 11 deaths.”

In this regard, Bolivian intellectuals warn that the veracity of these events was questioned by Venezuelan authorities, who attributed it to a provocation created using artificial intelligence.

The REDH remembers that on January 20, the White House released the document Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Specially Designated Foreign Terrorists and Global Terrorists.

It adds that, in this way, the country that is the largest consumer of narcotics in the world and the main recipient of the billions of dollars generated by this criminal market also seeks to present this phenomenon as a danger to its internal security.

The document points out that, based on these pretexts, the US government intends to intervene militarily in third countries. jdt/oda/jpm