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Sascha Wil­son

Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go Al­varo Sanchez Cordero is con­fi­dent that any move against Venezuela by the Unit­ed States will fail, just as pre­vi­ous at­tempts have over the decades.

With a US naval mis­sion—in­clud­ing war­ships, a nu­clear-pow­ered sub­ma­rine, and 4,500 troops —en route to Caribbean wa­ters for an an­ti-drug car­tel op­er­a­tion, Cordero re­mind­ed Wash­ing­ton of Venezue­lan Lib­er­a­tor Si­mon Bo­li­var’s fa­mous 1818 words: “Free peo­ple de­feat pow­er­ful em­pires.”