Venezuelan Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, rejected on Wednesday the statements of President Donald Trump, who admitted having ordered the assault on a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea. The same vessel was stripped from Venezuela as an act of international piracy. According to information obtained by the Argentine News Agency (NA), Cabello stated that these actions demonstrate an offensive against the country's strategic resources. He pointed out that imperialism is bothered by popular mobilization and support, and at the same time said that "that is why they steal the people's things".
"They want to steal the oil, steal the gold, steal the gas, steal the water," the official expressed when denouncing what he considered a direct aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Xinhua agency reported.
He, who is also the general secretary of the governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela, held that political forces aligned with the government are prepared "to withstand whatever comes in a prolonged active resistance," and affirmed that the sectors promoting these pressures "believe that all psychological terrorism will make us bow down, but they are mistaken."
The leader also referred to the massive and permanent mobilization of the Venezuelan people, who have taken to the streets to express their support for the national government and in defense of national sovereignty.
