Newly inaugurated Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro has encouraged Brazil to ‘liberate’ Puerto Rico from US influence by invading it with its military.
Dictator Maduro’s statement was made during the International Anti-Fascist Festival for a New World, hours after his controversial inauguration.
“The liberation of Puerto Rico is pending, and we will accomplish it” said Maduro. “The Brazilian Abreu Lima battalion will liberate Puerto Rico.”
Puerto Rico is currently a US territory that recently voted in support of becoming a US state.
Consequently, American lawmakers fumed upon hearing Maduro’s comments.
US Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), a longtime Maduro critic, rejected Maduro’s claims and expounded for the latter to terminate his reign.
“First, Maduro thinks we’ll buy his lies when we KNOW Edmundo Gonzalez won. Now this,” said Senator Scott responding to Maduro’s Puerto Rico comments. “This murderous, illegitimate dictator should release the American hostages and make way for the rightful president.”
Maduro’s regime recently captured several American citizens, claiming they were mercenaries planning to overthrow his regime prior to Maduro’s January 10th inauguration.
US authorities rejected Maduro’s claims and qualified his inauguration as fraudulent, claiming President-elect Edmundo Gonzalez should be inaugurated instead.
“The Venezuelan people and world know the truth – Maduro clearly lost the 2024 presidential election and has no right to claim the presidency,” reads a US State Department press release.
Maduro’s inauguration follows his electoral defeat, certified by the European Union, the United States, and sundry other countries, at the hands of the Venezuelan democratic opposition.
Venezuela’s elections emerged from failed negotiations between Venezuela’s government and President Biden’s administration over electoral assurances in exchange for sanctions relief.
Despite promises of allowing free and fair elections, the Venezuelan regime barred Machado from participating in the same.
Machado then invested her political capital into Gonzalez, who subsequently won the presidential elections.
Despite Gonzalez’s victory, Maduro’s electoral commission declared Maduro as the winner without showing proof of the votes he received while subsequently coercing Gonzalez into departing Venezuela.
