*Simon Bolivar School Ship begins its 35th overseas training cruise "Caribbean Alliance 2025".
*Government resumes repatriation of Venezuelan migrants in the United States.
teleSUR
*Government resumes repatriation of Venezuelan migrants in the United States.
teleSUR
Category
đ
NewsTranscript
00:00The Venezuelan government announced the seizure of almost 10 tons of drugs with links to local authorities and the far-right.
00:06The Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello,
00:09presented a report on the conspiracy drug trafficking and corruption scheme linked to several majors of the state of Zulia and extremist sectors.
00:17Cabello detailed that during the first operation, six tons of cocaine were seized, and in another operation more than
00:242,600 tons, which so far adds up to
00:279,866 kilos of pure cocaine.
00:30Likewise, an organization linked to MarĂa Corina Machado, IvĂĄn SimĂłnovits, Juan Pablo Guanipa and
00:37Edmundo GonzĂĄlez, who were seeking to promote acts of violence and destabilization, were dismantled.
00:52Arms trafficking,
00:55drug trafficking,
00:59mercenaries to conspire and attack the government.
01:03Mrs. MarĂa Corina Machado. We have said it on several occasions.
01:11The financing that Mrs. MarĂa Corina Machado has been receiving comes from drug trafficking,
01:19from Colombian drug traffickers.
01:21Uribe and Duque. That is why this blow
01:30has hurt her so much.
01:32The Interior Minister explained the gang's plans to attack the Venezuelan Armed Forces, linking the institution to drug trafficking.
01:43They put an emblem resembling that of the Coast Guard, a symbol that is not of the Navy,
01:48but from far away, you see it, and you might think that it is the Venezuelan Navy.
01:53So the plan against Venezuela was that a boat of these
01:56characteristics, of this gang, would go out to the Caribbean and be captured, and the world would have the news on
02:03Venezuela, that the Venezuelan Navy is linked to drug trafficking.
02:11I do not know how many kilos were found, and they continue to build their file against Venezuela,
02:17which they try to set up with false positives.
02:23Also in Venezuela, the National Navy ship SimĂłn BolĂvar departs on the 35th Overseas Training Cruise, Caribbean Alliance 2025.
02:31President NicolĂĄs Maduro led the farewell ceremony, accompanied by Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino LĂłpez,
02:36and other Venezuelan authorities of the High Military Command. The cruise ship will be commanded by Captain
02:42Ronald Briseño Huerta, and will have a crew of at least
02:45190 men and women. The SimĂłn BolĂvar training ship is expected to sail to Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda,
02:51the Republic of Honduras, Cuba, and Mexico.
02:54The trip is for cultural exchange and to promote diplomatic relations between Venezuela and other sister nations.
03:01And during the ceremony, the head of state from Venezuela assured that the people, the migrants kidnapped in El Salvador, will return to the country.
03:13All these migrants, by tomorrow, thanks to the perseverance and resilience of our governments,
03:20we will resume flights to continue rescuing and releasing the migrants.
03:24Thanks to the perseverance and resilience of our governments, we will resume flights to continue rescuing and releasing migrants from U.S. prisons.
03:32We will rescue a group of boys tomorrow, and the next week, and the next, and the time will come,
03:38when we will rescue our boys and girls, who were kidnapped, detained without having committed any crime in the United States,
03:46let alone in El Salvador. They were kidnapped.
03:51In this line, the government of Venezuela announced the resumption of the repatriation process of Venezuelan citizens from the United States.
03:59The Venezuelan-appointed delegate to peace talks, Jorge RodrĂguez, expressed the following.
04:04Venezuela informs that in the framework of the plan Back to the Homeland,
04:08and for the purpose of the return of our compatriots to their nation with the protection of their human rights,
04:13we have agreed to resume, with the government of the United States,
04:16the repatriation of Venezuelan migrants with an initial flight on Sunday, March 23rd.
04:23Migrating is not a crime, and we will not rest until we achieve the return of all those who require it,
04:28and until we rescue our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador.