The Republican politician openly admitted interventionist motives.

On Monday, U.S. Republican lawmaker Maria Salazar bluntly confessed that the real intention behind the military campaign in the Caribbean Sea launched by President Donald Trump’s administration is to enter Venezuela to steal its oil.

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“We’re about to go in. We need to go in,” the congresswoman, whose parents are Cuban, said, referring to the military deployment Trump has maintained since August under the pretext of combating international drug trafficking.

“Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day because it will be more than a trillion dollars in economic activity. American companies can go in and fix the oil rigs and everything that has to do with the Venezuelan petroleum companies, with oil and the derivatives.”

“The Venezuelans have the largest reserves of oil in the world, more than Saudi Arabia. This is going to be a windfall for us when it comes to fossil fuels. For American oil companies, Venezuela will be a field day because it will mean more than a billion dollars in economic activity,” the Florida representative declared.

Through Instagram, Venezuelan legislator Tania Diaz, who is also vice president of Training and Ideology for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), reacted critically to those statements.

“I present to you the living example of political parasitism. Salazar has climbed positions on the shoulders of Latin American migrants in the United States — the same people she now denies and mercilessly throws into the pit of the Alligator Alcatraz jail. Salazar ignores her origins and dishonors her grandparents. She betrays her own people. She spits on her ancestors.”

“Today she shamelessly confesses the intention to steal Venezuela’s oil. She exposes the despicable intentions of people of her ilk. There is no politics here, much less any hint of democracy. She thinks and acts like the eternal parasites. They neither work nor produce and are used to ripping the lifeblood from other organisms to survive,” the Venezuelan lawmaker said.

“They will be left wanting… No one can come to steal our country’s future. ‘Here we have a free people and a sovereign homeland’,” Diaz concluded, recalling the words of the late Commander Hugo Chavez, the historic leader of the Bolivarian Revolution.

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Sources: Newsweek – teleSUR

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