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The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Madurothis Thursday denounced the “quartering”from the Venezuelan plane that was confiscated by U.Safter spending a year and a half detained in good air by US court order.
“We were informed of a vile, criminal and outrageous act: at an airport in Miamiat the Floridathe vengeful and perverse foreign empire, with all its evil, proceeded to dismantle the commercial plane. Emtrasulthe airplane Conviasa that they kidnapped us“Maduro said during a massive mobilization in Caracas.
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“They removed the color from the flag, (…) erased the name of Emtrasur and then dismembered it and cut it into pieces“He continued.
On February 12th, U.S concluded the seizure of the cargo plane Boeing 747 of the Aerocarga do Sul Transport Company (Emtrasur), a subsidiary of the Venezuelan state airline CONVIASA.
The plane was sold to Emtrasur by the sanctioned Iranian airline Mahan Airand was immobilized by court order in Ministro Pistarini Airportin good airsince June 8, 2022, when he arrived from Mexico with shipping of automotive parts.
The 19 crew members who arrived in Buenos Aires in 2022 were detained and later released.
The Venezuelan government described the event as “theft” and on February 15, Maduro described how “bandit” to his Argentine counterpart, Javier Milei.
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“It’s outrageous!“Maduro reiterated at the Chavista rally that he paralyzed traffic on the main highway in Caracas, where a huge inflatable shark with a United States flag was transported in the trunk of a truck to be displayed at the activity.
washington and Caracas have maintained a tense relationship that had one of its most critical episodes with the rupture of diplomatic relations in 2019, after the United States recognized, together with fifty countries, the symbolic interim government of the opponent. Juan Guaidónow exiled in that country.
The President’s Administration Joe Biden however, it supported a negotiation process between Maduro and opposition delegates in Barbadosasked by Norwaywhich signed an agreement last October that foresees the holding of presidential elections in 2024, as well as the publication of “political prisoners”.
Source: Elcomercio
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