Ambassador Moncada on US claims to Venezuelan oil reserves, gunboat diplomacy

PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Dec.2025, Words: 824) — Venezuela’s permanent representative to the United Nations Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta denounced what he labelled “a serious attack against the peace, security, and stability of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as well as the Latin American and Caribbean region as a whole.”

This statement — in reference to the massive US military buildup in the Caribbean Sea and ongoing US military attacks on alleged drug traffickers in the Atlantic and Pacific — was addressed in a letter to the permanent representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the United Nations president of the security council ambassador Samuel Zbogar.