Venezuelan FM thanks Cuba for its rejection of intervention in his country

 HAVANA, Cuba, Jan 13 (ACN) On behalf of President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan foreign minister Yvan Gil thanked his Cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez, for rejecting the call for intervention in Venezuela by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

In the face of threats from a decaying empire and its local accomplices, Venezuela is strengthened with the unconditional support of friends and allies in solidarity", wrote the high-ranking diplomat on Telegram.

Gil extended the most sincere thanks to Cuban foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, "for his firm rejection of the irresponsible calls for military intervention, which threaten the life and peace of our people."

Rodriguez stated on X that "the irresponsible requests for an international military intervention in Venezuela, formulated by several actors, are a serious fact that we reject and that, if such an adventure were to go forward, it would have considerable and unpredictable consequences for regional peace and security".

The Bolivarian minister for foreign relations also valued what he called Iran's "timely declarations" in rejection of the plans for military intervention and the hardening of the unilateral coercive measures promoted by those who seek to destabilize peace.

In this regard, he expressed his deep appreciation to the spokesman of the Iranian foreign ministry, Esmail Baqai, for his congratulatory message to the Venezuelan people after the peaceful and democratic inauguration of Maduro on January 10.

In an act the day before in Cucuta, Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) called for "an international intervention, preferably endorsed by the United Nations", to oust the legitimate constitutional government of Nicolas Maduro, who was sworn in as President for a new six-year term.

The fugitive from Venezuelan justice and resident abroad (Spain) Leopoldo Lopez, who requested "to seriously consider the proposal", also joined the Colombian ex-president on X, as reported in a dispatch dated in Caracas by the Prensa Latina.

According to this source, the day before, during the closing ceremony of the International Anti-Fascist World Festival, based in Caracas, Maduro called Uribe "a sad paramilitary and drug trafficker, murderer, criminal and coward" and summoned him to come to the front of the troops, to show his face and not to send others.