President Donald Trump railed against communism, socialism and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, but Caracas' diplomat spent the speech reading about revolutionary Simón Bolívar.
President Donald Trump railed against Venezuela during his annual speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, but the leftist-led Latin American country's delegate did not appear impressed.The U.S. has cut ties with the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, sponsoring a self-declared bid for leadership by opposition-controlled National Assembly head Juan Guaidó.
"The dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his own people while Cuba plunders Venezuela's oil wealth to sustain its own corrupt, communist rule," Trump said at the gathering."Since I last spoke at this hall, the United States and its partners have built a historic coalition of 55 countries that recognize the legitimate government of Venezuela.
He continued, saying that"to the Venezuelans trapped in this nightmare, please know that all of America is united behind you," but a Venezuelan diplomat appeared to ignore the appeal, instead, reading a book about Venezuelan revolutionary Simón Bolívar, considered the father of the ruling United Socialist Party's ideology.
A representative of Venezuela's delegation to the United Nations reads a book as President Donald Trump addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York, September 24.Though much of Latin America and Europe, along with other close U.S. partners abroad, have sided with Guaidó, Maduro retained the recognition of fellow leftists in regional countries like Bolivia, Cuba, Mexico and Nicaragua, as well as Russia, China, Iran, South Africa and others. The U.N.
Trump took the opportunity to rail against socialism not only in Venezuela, but across the world and also in the U.S., where a growing number of politicians have embraced the ideology. These include some of Trump's most vocal critics, such as one of his potential 2020 challengers—Senator Bernie Sanders.
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