Venezuela’s Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, denounced on Saturday the missile attack from U.S. helicopters on civilian areas of Caracas, as well as in other parts of the country, and indicated that they are searching for possible wounded or dead people.
“This invasion represents the greatest outrage that the country has suffered, which responds to the insatiable greed for our strategic resources,” said Padrino López in a video broadcast on social networks.
Vladimir Padrino López confirms attacks on civilians
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The defense minister said that missiles and rockets were launched from the air by helicopters and described the attack as “dastardly and cowardly”.
In this sense, he asked to avoid “chaos and anarchy which, he warned, are weapons as lethal as bombs”.
“They have attacked us, but they will not break us,” he added.
On Saturday, the Venezuelan government denounced a “very serious U.S. military aggression” in civilian and military locations in the Venezuelan capital.
As well as in the central states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira and ordered the “deployment of the command for the integral defense of the nation”.
Several detonations were heard early Saturday morning in Caracas, La Guaira and Miranda amid tensions with the United States.
In August, the Trump administration deployed warships and airplanes in the Caribbean Sea, near the Venezuelan coast, a fact that Caracas denounced as “threats” to bring about a regime change.
U.S. President Donald Trump tonight ordered attacks on targets inside Venezuela, including military targets, in an escalation of his pressure campaign against the Maduro government, U.S. administration sources told CBS News.
Fox News also confirmed that Trump has ordered airstrikes against several targets inside Venezuela, with a major focus on the coastal area around La Guaira, near Maiquetia airport and in an area that includes possible key military targets for the Maduro regime.
Trump, who announced Maduro’s capture, warned in November of the possibility of attacks on Venezuelan territory amid his campaign against Venezuela and the government of Nicolás Maduro, whom he accuses of allegedly leading a drug trafficking network.
Last Friday, December 26, the U.S. president announced an attack against a“large facility” as part of his campaign against a drug trafficking network led, according to Washington, by Venezuela, although he did not specify whether the attack took place within Venezuelan territory.
With information from EFE
