While the world is facing COVID-19 pandemic , the U.S. government intensifies its arrogant and criminal policy against the people of Venezuela . Except from the extention of economic sanctions imposed against Venezuela, the U.S. State Department announced indictments against President Nicolas Maduro and other Venezuelan officials, whom the Trump administration accuses of having ties to international drug trafficking networks.

The United States government offers US$15 million for "any information" leading to the arrest of the Bolivarian president as well as rewards of US$10 million for information related to National Constituent Assembly (ANC) president Diosdado Cabello, Vice President Tareck El Aissami, former general Hugo Carvajal, and former military chief Cliver Alcala Cordones.





To justify its arbitrary actions, the U.S. argues that Venezuela allowed the then Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to use its national airspace to transport drugs and "flood the U.S with cocaine," as the Southern District of New York Attorney Geoffrey Berman said.





Arreaza: U.S. allegations are "miserable, vulgar and unfounded"





In a press conference held on March 26, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza condemned the charges of “narco-terrorism” levelled by the US against president Nicolas Maduro as “miserable, vulgar, and unfounded, adding that the allegations consist part of a new coup d’état attempt against the constitutional government.





Arreaza also denounced Trump administration for attacking the people of Venezuela “in moments where humanity is confronting one of the fiercest pandemics".





The Foreign Minister stressed out that, during the past two years, the governments of U.S. and Colombia have financed and directed destabilizing actions against the Bolivarian Government.





"The absolute complicity and submission to the United States by the Colombian authorities is clear, they have not paid attention to the grave denouncements and have underestimated the concrete information that we have promptly provided them, they have lent their territory and resources for conspiring against Venezuela, in direct violation of international agreements and the Charter of the United Nations itself,” he said.





The World Peace Council condemns strongly the decision of the US Attorney General, on behalf of the US administration, to announce criminal charges against the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other high ranking officials with the pretext of their alleged involvement in international drug trafficking.





The US General Attorney threatens to designate the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela as “a state sponsoring terrorism”. This decision of the US-administration constitutes not only a further escalation in the provocations, coercive measures and interference against a sovereign country, it proves also the cynical and arrogant approach of the USA, which is using the critical times of the pandemic of COVID 19 worldwide, to impose new additional sanctions on the country and its people.





The people of Venezuela are already suffering from the sanctions and restrictions imposed by the US imperialists and its allies from EU and the “Lima Group”, which do not allow the country to purchase medicine and other vital products since more than one year. It is the same forces who recognize a self-proclaimed puppet as their “chosen leader” against any legitimacy, logic and international law and it is the same forces which do not allow during the COVID 19 crisis the country to buy and provide technical equipment and health products for the National Health System in the international markets.





The new decision of the USA today, acting as the “world sheriff” and announcing millions of US Dollars for the capturing of the legitimate President Nicolas Maduro, officers and ministers of the country has no precedent and are arbitrary and void.





The WPC expresses its profound solidarity to the people of Venezuela, to the anti-imperialist peace loving forces in their struggle to defend their sovereign right to choose their leadership and destiny alone and without any foreign interference and to fight back the imperialist aggression, interference and provocations.





We call upon all WPC members and friends to strengthen the solidarity actions with the people of Venezuela and to plan for the 19th April, which is the International Day in Solidarity with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, actions in protest of the imperialist threats and actions in solidarity of the Venezuelan people in coordination with our Member Organisation in Venezuela (Committee for International Solidarity and Struggle for Peace-COSI).





The WPC Secretariat

26th March 2020.