The anger of the regime of Nicolás Maduro after the confiscation of an aircraft in the Dominican Republic: “shameless robbery”
Venezuela’s regime described this Friday “shameless robbery”The confiscation of a second aircraft in the Dominican Republic in the United States, while referring to the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubioa strong critic of the dictator Nicolás Maduroas “airplane thief”
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces the world shameless robbery of an aircraft owned by the Venezuelan nationexecuted by order of the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio”, Said the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry in a statement.
“Marco Rubio, from Mercenary of the Hate to Ladrón de Aircraft!”, Added the text.
Chavismo also assured that “it will take all the necessary actions to denounce this theft and demand the immediate return of its aircraft.”
It is the Second plane seized by the United States to Venezuela in less than a yearbut the first hard hand gesture of the administration of Donald Trumpthat in his first period he set a battery of sanctions against Venezuela, including an oil embargo, in an attempt to press Maduro.
In the presence of Rubio, a Dominican prosecutor and a representative of the forces of the United States order they hit a poster that said “seized“On the plane Dassault Falcon 200 of Venezuelan flag that was on the military landing track of Santo Domingo.
“The seizure of this Venezuelan plane, used to evade US sanctions and (control of) money, is a powerful example of our determination to hold the illegitimate regime of Maduro for his illegal actions”He said in X Rubio at the end of his first tour as Secretary of State for five Latin American countries.
According to the State Department, Venezuela officials used that aircraft to fly to Greece, Türkiye, Russia, Nicaragua and Cubaand had taken her to the Dominican Republic for maintenance.
In September 2024, during the administration of the former president Joe Biden, Another official Venezuela aircraft, model Dassault Falcon 900ex, was confiscated in the Dominican Republic and transferred to the state of Florida. American authorities said that it had been bought “illegally” for 13 million dollars through a ghost company.
In June 2022, a Venezuelan-Iraní Boeing 747 plane was immobilized in Argentina and destroyed in the United States in January 2024a fact that Caracas also called “theft.”
(With AFP information)
