Did Nicolás Maduro ask Pope Francis for help to confront the military threat from the United States?
A video of President Nicolás Maduro is circulating on social networks supposedly asking Pope Francis to help Venezuela to prevent Trump from launching his troops and disappearing it as a people.
«I ask Pope Francis to help me. Now I make my public prayer, that the Pope will help us prevent Trump from launching his troops and invading Venezuela. I ask the Pope for help against the military threat from the United States. May he not abandon us and do not allow us to disappear as a people. I cry out for the true spirit of the Pope.”
The viral video is not recent. It is an edited version of a statement that Maduro gave on August 22, 2017 to national and foreign journalists at the Miraflores Palace.
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Donald Trump was elected president of the United States on November 5, 2024 for what will be his second term. During his first term (2017-2021), Trump ignored Maduro’s first re-election, supported the interim government of Juan Guaidó in 2019 and assumed a set of sanctions to pressure the revolutionary government.
Until now, There are no details about what his foreign policy towards Venezuela will be like during the new government. which begins on January 20, 2025. According to Cocuyo Effectexpectations are mainly divided between those who think that Trump will be more radical against Maduro for not recognizing that he was defeated by the opposition and deciding to be sworn in on January 10 and those who do not expect the Venezuela issue to be a priority, compared to what It occurs in other latitudes such as the wars in the Gaza Strip and in Russia against Ukraine.
«Everything will depend, it has been pointed out, on the advisors that the new US president has and who he appoints as Undersecretary of State to manage relations with Latin America, since the global context is different, although it is considered that a recognition of Maduro as president it is unlikely,” the text indicates.
Beyond the position that Donald Trump decides to adopt regarding VenezuelaNicolás Maduro’s request to Pope Francis to intercede for the country’s security in the face of a possible US military intervention is not recent, but from 7 years ago, therefore, It is a manipulation.
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