Announceme of Extraordinary Status in Venezuela Following US hostile Acts – Mehr News Agency | Iranian and world news
Venezuelan Preside Nicholas Maduro said in response to what Caracas described as an increase in US hostile actions against Venezuela, the Mehr News Agency reported.
Venezuelan Vice Preside Delsey Rodriguez announced earlier Monday that Maduro had signed a command that would allow him to take action on defense and national security issues in the eve of any possible US attack on our homeland.
The decree gives Maduro to mobilize the armed forces across the coury and exercise the military corol over public services and the oil industry.
The Venezuelan governme has put its defense forces in alert after widespread US military deployme near the coast of the coury.
The United States has deployed a nuclear warship and a nuclear submarine in the south of the Caribbean, claiming that the move has been aimed at couering drug trafficking operations.
But Caracas considers the establishme a clear inciteme whose main purpose is to increase the pressure on the Maduro governme and to try to change the Venezuelan political system.
In rece weeks, US forces have attacked at least three ships on charges of drug trafficking without any evidence.
The series of operations killed four people, which UN experts cited as examples of “extrajudicial execution” and criticized it.
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