Washington is taking steps, which could result in transforming Venezuela into a South American Vietnam, the country’s incumbent President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday.
“The people of the United States, I ask for your support in rejecting the Trump administration’s attempts to turn my homeland into Vietnam in Latin America. We will not let this happen!” Maduro tweeted.
On Tuesday, Venezuela’s Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva Jorge Valero accused the US of planning a military intervention into Venezuela and said Washington had no right to dictate its terms to Caracas.