Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Wednesday during his presentation to the UN National Assembly that his country is a permanent victim of diplomatic, economic and media aggression by the United States.

“I bring the voice of a country that has refused to surrender throughout history, to injustice, to empires, yesterday slave and colonial; today also neocolonial slavers. I bring the voice of a historic people, who rose up from the aborigines, from the native peoples who for centuries resisted the domination of the colonial empires, “he said at the beginning of his speech.