Maduro Warns of "New Vietnam" Risk Following Trump Oil Blockade Order
Addressing attendees at the Workers' Class Constituent Assembly in Caracas, Maduro condemned American naval operations throughout the Caribbean region and the recent confiscation of a Venezuelan-flagged oil vessel.
Washington stands accused of fabricating justifications to intensify its offensive against Venezuela, with Maduro alleging the US seeks "to create another Libya, Afghanistan or Iraq."
"We do not want a new Vietnam," Maduro said. "Venezuela has been protesting, fighting and defeating this multidimensional aggression for 25 weeks."
According to Maduro, Washington's strategy encompasses methods he characterized as spanning from "psychological terrorism" to "piracy."
"The defense of free trade and peace in the Caribbean and Venezuela is the defense of the entire world," Maduro said, calling on maritime and oil workers worldwide to protest US actions.
Maduro alleged that American forces commandeered a commercial tanker transporting 1.9 million barrels of crude that had been legally acquired from Venezuela.
"We will be millions telling the imperialists that piracy cannot be accepted," he said.
Via his Truth Social platform Tuesday, Trump declared that "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America."
"It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before – until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us," he added.
Trump further revealed his administration has classified the Maduro regime as a foreign terrorist organization, contending the naval blockade will cut off what he termed financing streams for drug trafficking, human trafficking and the theft of US assets.
He added that the US is rapidly deporting "illegal aliens and criminals" he said were sent by the Maduro government and demanded Venezuela immediately return "oil, land or any other assets" it has taken.
Global oil markets surged Wednesday as energy analysts cautioned the blockade threatens to choke critical supply chains.
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