Tensions are rising between Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro. This Saturday, September 20, the American president threatened Venezuela with consequences “incalculable”, if it did not recover its migrants, in particular “prisoners and internees of psychiatric hospitals” that the Republican leader accuses of having been “pushed” to the United States through Caracas, according to AFP.
“We want Venezuela to immediately accept all prisoners and psychiatric hospital inmates (…) that Venezuelan leaders have forcibly pushed to the United States”wrote Donald Trump on his Truth Social network, adding in capital letters: “Get them out of our country immediately, otherwise the price you will pay will be incalculable”.
Maduro denounces “an imperial plan aimed at regime change”
The American president, who has engaged his country in a relentless fight against illegal immigration, has recently increased diplomatic and military pressure on Venezuela. The United States has deployed several warships in the Caribbean and 10 F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico, a territory attached to the United States, close to Venezuela. A pressure attack presented, officially, as an anti-drug operation.
Washington accuses Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of being at the head of a vast drug trafficking organization to the United States. Caracas vigorously denies these accusations. In response to US operations in Puerto Rico, the South American country launched military exercises on the Caribbean island of La Orchila. The Venezuelan head of state, whose election is not recognized by Washington, denounced “an imperial plan aimed at regime change” For “steal the oil” of the country. At the end of August, he prepared his militia for a “American invasion”.
