“It is not enough for them to confess that they intend to steal the natural resources of our countries, to qualify and threaten the governments of the Bolivarian Alliance now,” the executive secretary of the group, Jorge Arreaza, stated in a message on his X profile.

The official condemned, at the same time, the recent statements made by the commander of the US Southern Command, Laura J. Richardson, who singled out Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua for allegedly supporting “destabilizing activities in the region.”

“As Executive Secretary of the @ALBATCP I reject the cynicism, arrogance and brazenness of this US “Military Chief” (…) This chief of the Southern Command, like all her predecessors, will fail in her expansionist intentions to dominate the sovereign peoples of Our Latin America and the Caribbean,” Arreaza added.

Richardson has recently met with the repulse of Latin American and Caribbean nations for her constant statements on domestic issues and the Essequibo territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana.

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