Le président vénézuélien Nicolas Maduro a déchiré le gouvernement sortant de Donald Trump, faisant exploser son «déclin moral complet», en dénonçant les sanctions américaines débilitantes et la décision de mettre une prime sur sa tête.

Maduro n'a pas donné de coup de poing alors qu'il faisait ses adieux à Trump lors d'un discours à l'Assemblée nationale vénézuélienne mardi.

Il a accusé les États-Unis d'avoir mené une  «attaque multiforme»  pour perturber tous les aspects de l'économie du Venezuela, de la production de pétrole aux importations de produits essentiels, depuis 2013.multiform attack”

«Le blocus et les sanctions ont également perturbé le système productif et infligé d'énormes dégâts aux entreprises étrangères qui faisaient des affaires avec le Venezuela», a-t-  il déclaré.

Maduro a noté qu'en 2020, Washington avait poussé son assaut contre le Venezuela à l'extrême, se référant à la récompense de 15 millions de dollars que le gouvernement américain avait promis pour des informations conduisant à son arrestation pour  «narco-terrorisme»  en mars.narco-terrorism”

“2020 was the year that the outgoing administration of Donald Trump in a shameless, illegal, inhuman and criminal way put a price on my head,” the Venezuelan leader said.

“$15 million this little head is worth. Is it a lot, is it a little?”

The Venezuelan president previously dismissed the accusations as a smear coming from the “world’s terrorists” themselves, rejecting the US government’s authority on the issue due to its long history of violent foreign interventions.

Maduro denounced his treatment by the US government as “one more example” showcasing the “extremist” ways of “the Ku Klux Klan cowboys of the White House.”

One more example of the desperation and supremacism that made them commit so many blunders for four years and that in this last period showed their complete moral decline.

The Trump administration has from the beginning taken a hardline stance against Maduro, openly backing Venezuelan opposition figurehead Juan Guaido, who declared himself ‘interim president’ in early 2019.

Tensions between Washington and Caracas reached new heights in May when the Venezuelan military encountered and engaged a squad of armed individuals who were trying to infiltrate the country. Several of them were killed, and over a dozen were captured, including two former US Green Berets. The captured mercenaries later revealed that kidnapping Maduro and bringing him to the US was the objective of the failed incursion.

However, the incoming administration of Joe Biden appears to be gearing up for a more diplomatic approach towards relations with Venezuela. The president-elect has reportedly declined to take calls from Guaido, and hinted at the lifting of some sanctions, qualifying that with a request for Maduro to bring about “free and fair elections.”