CARACAS, March 25 (NNN-XINHUA) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that his country will continue on the path of productive economic recovery despite the US unilateral coercive measures.
The United States has imposed a 25 percent tariff on any country that trades with Venezuela in oil and gas.
“If yesterday the battle was with spears and on horseback, today the battle is to produce, supply, export and develop,” said Maduro via state television.
Maduro said that Venezuelans have everything they need and that the country will never be a colony.
Meanwhile, Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said that a “great march” will be held on Tuesday in support of migrants’ rights following recent US deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans.
The event is in “response to those around the world who want to mistreat our Venezuelans and to those who justify, in the most vile and cowardly manner, the measures against Venezuelans,” Cabello said.
The march comes a little over a week after US President Donald Trump’s administration decided to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law, to deport over 200 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, branding them members of a gang committing violent crimes.
Having denied the accusations earlier, Cabello said Venezuela is working to protect the rights of its migrants with the help of a law firm to demand “that all Venezuelans be returned.” — NNN-XINHUA