00:00Good afternoon to all the people watching Venezolana de TelevisiĂłn and Telesur.
00:17We have some of this press conference, national and international media present here in our headquarters.
00:30To denounce an incident that has been tried to be promoted from elites in Washington.
00:47Yesterday, a tuna ship, Carmen Rosa, this is it in the picture, which works in the Caribbean waters of Venezuela, authorized by our fisheries ministry with nine fishermen on board.
01:11It was boarded violently by a unit of the U.S. Navy by a destructor.
01:28This one in the picture, Jason Dunhun destroyer, equipped with missiles, troops and officers, soldiers in offices with long rifles.
01:52Who illegally and with hostility use their means to.
02:03They used a boat to approach the Venezuelan fishing boat with 18 men to board and occupy the fishing boat from Venezuela.
02:32Our National Bolivarian Armed Forces monitor the incident from beginning to end.
02:48We are seeing images taken by the fishermen on the boat.
03:01The destroyer was in Venezuelan waters, by the way, in our economic zone, exclusive economic zone.
03:08Given these shameful action by the U.S. Navy, we will read a committee cave.
03:29A destroyer, missile destroyer from the U.S. has assaulted, attacked fishermen in the Caribbean.
03:40The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is denouncing that on Friday, September 12th, the Carmen Rosa Fission tuna boat,
03:51who was sailing at 48 nautical miles in waters that belonged to the economic exclusive zone of Venezuela,
04:04Venezuela was illegally bordered by troops of the U.S. destroyer USS Jason Dunhun.
04:17DGG 109 equipped with potent cruise missiles and with trained Marines.
04:28DGG 109 who gave the order for this board and are trying to create an incident that may justify an escalation of hostilities in the Caribbean
04:45in their failed policy to provoke a regime change in Venezuela.
04:56Fishermen of Venezuela on this boat risked their lives once again as it has happened in the past with other incidents, similar incidents.
05:04This incident reflects shameful conduct of certain sectors in Washington who are irresponsibly using extremely expensive resources to manufacture a pretext for a confrontation.
05:27They are also risking their military honor at carrying out such a grotesque maneuver.
05:38The Bolivarian National Armed Forces, faithful to its constitutional duty, monitor the incident from beginning to end
05:47with air and sea means.
05:57They supported the fishermen through the whole incident until they were freed, demonstrating the capacity of Venezuela to watch, dissuade,
06:09and retaliate any threat that may threaten its peaceful objectives.
06:18The Venezuelan government is demanding the U.S. to stop immediately all these actions that endanger security in the Caribbean,
06:29while urging the U.S. people to understand the gravity of such maneuvers
06:37and to reject such that their soldiers be used as sacrifice pawns to satisfy a powerful predator elite.
06:54Our country ratified its commitment with peaceful and it will continue to defend the security of its waters against all kinds of provocations.
07:01Signed in Caracas, September 13, 2025.
07:06Thank you to all the journalists from all the media present here.
07:10We just wanted to make this denunciation public regarding this incident on those fishermen on our economic exclusive zone.
07:27We will continue walking down a path of peace to guarantee the well-being of all Venezuelans.
07:36We will listen to the statements by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Hill who denounced an attack of a U.S. destroyer against a Venezuelan fisherman boat.
07:45This incident occurred in the Venezuelan exclusive economic waters.
07:50The incident was monitored under the vigilance of the Bolivarian National Army who accompanied the fishermen as quickly and as soon as possible.
07:59The 18 armed men of the U.S. military highly trained men boarded the Venezuelan fishing vessel in an attempt to create a situation,
08:06as the Venezuelan Foreign Minister denounced, to create a situation that justifies its military escalation in the Caribbean.
08:13In this context, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister denounced the destabilizing actions of the U.S. military and sectors of U.S. policy
08:21and condemned all these actions while reaffirming the commitment of Venezuela to peace and to protect the sovereignty of the Bolivarian nation.
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