“The
plan of the empire is to overthrow the constitutional president
elected by Venezuela ... as a warning to anti-imperialist
governments,” Morales said.
Bolivian
President Evo Morales on Thursday slammed ongoing right-wing
opposition protests in Venezuela, claiming they serve the interests
of multinational elites looking to privatize the country’s oil
resources.
Morales
also said foreign and domestic attacks against President Nicolas
Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution are intended to send a
threatening message to anti-imperialist governments around the world.
“The
plan of the empire is to overthrow the constitutional president
elected by Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, as a warning to
anti-imperialist governments,” Morales said. “Any internal
conspiracy or external intervention is intended to steal Venezuelan
oil.”
For weeks,
opposition demonstrators have held violent protests in several cities
across the country, calling for regime change and international
intervention. The protesters, backed by the U.S. government and
the Organization of American States, OAS, have also supported calls
for privatizing Venezuela’s publicly-run Petroleum of Venezuela, or
PDVSA, oil and natural gas company.
At least
nine people have died from the protests. Despite these deaths,
opposition leaders like Henrique Capriles and Maria Corina Machado
have called on protesters to continue violent demonstrations in order
to force Maduro’s ouster.
Venezuelan
authorities have called on the OAS to condemn the violence
perpetrated by the opposition, but to no avail.
Venezuela's
Ministry of the Interior said recent attacks against civilians and
police were planned by the opposition after three people were killed
on Wednesday.
Among those
killed during protest violence Wednesday was Niumar Jose Sanclemente
Barrios, a 28-year-old sergeant with the National Guard, who was
apparently killed by sniper fire during riots in the Caracas suburb
of San Antonio de las Altas.
“We
know there are groups interested in selling the world a country in
chaos,” Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami said on
Wednesday after the murder. “Henrique Capriles has said in an
irresponsible manner that the government is guilty of these deaths
and therefore will have to prove these serious allegations in court.”
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