Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Sept 5 called on the United States to abandon what he described as plans for "violent regime change" in his country and across Latin America, as tensions escalate over US military deployment in the Caribbean.
However, US President Donald Trump pushed back the claim, saying that his administration is not talking about regime change in Venezuela but simply stopping Venezuelan drugs from entering the US.
00:00And Venezuela has always been at the disposal of defending the truth of Venezuela.
00:09Do not matter what it is.
00:30The government of the United States and North America must abandon their plan of a violent regime change in Venezuela and all Latin America and the Caribbean.
00:41And respect the sovereignty, the right to peace, independence.
00:46I respect him the difference we have and we have.
00:49Now, none of the difference we have and we have can lead to a military conflict of high impact, violence,
00:58South America and North America.
01:01None of them has justification.
01:04No is true.
01:05And I tell the people of the United States that there was no mass destruction in Iraq.
01:12And Venezuela has always been in the disposition of talking, dialogue.
01:21But as we are in the disposition of talking and dialogue, we demand respect for our country, for our people.
01:29Would you like to see regime change in Venezuela?
01:32Well, we're not talking about that, but we are talking about the fact that you had an election which was a very strange election.
01:41To put it mildly, I'm being very nice when I say that.
01:44I can only say that billions of dollars of drugs are pouring into our country from Venezuela.
01:51The prisons of Venezuela have been opened up to our country.
01:54They've taken their prisoners, the worst prisoners, murderers, Trendy Aragua.
01:59The worst prisoners that you can ever imagine are now happily living in the United States of America.
02:05Now, many of them we've gotten out.
02:07On Venezuela, you've sent F-35s now to Puerto Rico.
02:10You've sent naval vessels in the Caribbean.
02:13You're concerned about drug being legally sent in the United States.
02:16How do you describe this buildup, this situation?
02:19Well, I just think it's strong. We're strong on drugs.
02:21We don't want drugs killing our people.
02:23I believe we lost 300,000.
02:25You know, they always say 95, 100,000.
02:27I believe they've been saying that for 20 years.
02:29I believe we lost 300,000 people last year.
02:32I know families that lost their son.
02:34Those families will never be the same.
02:36And when I see boats coming in, like loaded up the other day with all sorts of drugs,
02:41probably fentanyl mostly, but all sorts of drugs, and we're going to take them out.
02:45And if people want to have fun going on the high seas or the low seas, they're going to be in trouble.
02:52I will tell you, boat traffic is substantially down in the area that happened.
02:59They called it the runway.
03:01It's a runway to the United States.
03:04And boat traffic is very substantially down on the runway.
03:07You can imagine why.
03:08I think anybody that saw that is going to say, I'll take a pass.
03:11I don't even know about fishermen.
03:13They may say, I'm not getting on the boat.
03:15I'm not going to take a chance.
03:16What happens if Venezuela flies jets over U.S. naval vessels together?
03:20Well, I would say they're going to be in trouble.
03:22We'll let them know about that.
03:24We heard that happened, but it wasn't really over.
03:27Not like they described.
03:29But I would say, General, if they do that, you have a choice of doing anything you want.
03:33Okay?
03:34If they fly in a dangerous position, I would say that you or your captains can make the decision as to what they want to do.
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