Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro lashed out at Vice President Pence over his claims that Maduro was financing the migrant caravan crossing Mexico.

During a Wednesday meeting in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, Maduro said the allegations would be laughable if they weren't so serious.

"Amazing organizing power that I have in Central America, Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceFormer Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Pence vows for law and order everywhere Trump met with chants of protest as he pays respects to Ruth Bader Ginsburg MORE!" he said, according to Peruvian news outlet El Comercio.

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"If it wasn't for an extremist, a crazy extremist like Mike Pence saying it, and if it wasn't so dangerous to my personal security which has already been threatened by a public attempt at my life and to the security of the country, one would just laugh at that."

Maduro added that the next reaction "is preoccupation that [the allegation] starts up imperialistic paranoia."

He said Pence "and the extremist sectors of the United States government" have "an obsession because they haven't been able to beat [Venezuela], they haven't been able to make us surrender and they never will."

Pence, during a question period after President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden says voters should choose who nominates Supreme Court justice Trump, Biden will not shake hands at first debate due to COVID-19 Pelosi: Trump Supreme Court pick 'threatens' Affordable Care Act MORE signed a water infrastructure bill on Tuesday, said that the Honduran president had given him intelligence that Venezuela was behind the caravan.

"I spoke to President Hernandez of Honduras," Pence said.

"He told me that the caravan is now making its way through Mexico, headed for the southern border. It was organized by leftist organizations and financed by Venezuela."

There has been no evidence to support Pence's claim that Venezuela has helped finance the caravan.

As of Thursday, the caravan of Central American migrants is still making its way through Mexico.

Defense Secretary James Mattis James Norman MattisBiden courts veterans amid fallout from Trump military controversies Trump says he wanted to take out Syria's Assad but Mattis opposed it Gary Cohn: 'I haven't made up my mind' on vote for president in November MORE is reportedly set to deploy 800 troops to the U.S.-Mexico to intercept the caravan, at the request of Trump.

Reports have noted that the caravan is dwindling in size as many members have applied for asylum in Mexico or simply given up due to exhaustion.