US President
Donald Trump’s threat of considering military force in Venezuela is
“craziness,” the South American country’s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino
said
Friday.
“This is an
act of craziness, an act of supreme extremism,” General Padrino, who is also in
charge of Venezuela’s armed forces, told state television.
He was
reacting to Trump saying just hours earlier that he was mulling “many options
for Venezuela, including a possible military option if necessary” because of
its escalating political crisis.
“There is an
extremist elite governing the United States and honestly I don’t know what’s
happening, what is going to happen in the world,” Padrino said.
“As a
soldier, together with the FANB (Venezuela’s armed forces) and together with
the people, I am certain that we will all be in the first ranks defending the
interests and sovereignty of our beloved Venezuela.”
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