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On March 30, 2020, at 00:45, the Coast Guard «Naiguatá» (GC-23), of the Bolivarian Navy, being in maritime patrol tasks of our territorial sea, to the northwest of La Tortuga Island; it was boarded (collided) by the passenger ship «Resolute», (122 meters long and 8300 tons of displacement), of Portuguese flag, at the time it was undergoing a maritime traffic control procedure, which caused damage of great magnitude and caused the anxiety of the aforementioned coastguard.

The action of the ship «Resolute» is considered cowardly and criminal, since it did not attend to the rescue of the crew, in breach of the international regulations that regulate the rescue of life at sea. This ship is currently in the port of Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao, where it docked in the morning of today.

Our immediate search and rescue work, together with the professional and courageous performance of our personnel, allowed the full rescue of the crew. The Venezuelan State undertakes the corresponding legal actions.

Chávez lives!… The Homeland continues!

Independence and Socialist Homeland! ... We will live and win!

Always loyal!… Traitors never!

Caracas, March 31, 2020

VLADIMIR PADRINO LÓPEZ

Chief General

Chávez lives!… The Homeland continues!
Independence and Socialist Homeland! ... We will live and win!
Always loyal!… Traitors never!

PriestTheRunner wrote: Fri Apr 03, 2020 8:01 pm Wow....

On March 30, 2020, at 00:45, the Coast Guard «Naiguatá» (GC-23), of the Bolivarian Navy, being in maritime patrol tasks of our territorial sea, to the northwest of La Tortuga Island; it was boarded (collided) by the passenger ship «Resolute», (122 meters long and 8300 tons of displacement), of Portuguese flag, at the time it was undergoing a maritime traffic control procedure, which caused damage of great magnitude and caused the anxiety of the aforementioned coastguard.

The action of the ship «Resolute» is considered cowardly and criminal, since it did not attend to the rescue of the crew, in breach of the international regulations that regulate the rescue of life at sea. This ship is currently in the port of Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao, where it docked in the morning of today.

Our immediate search and rescue work, together with the professional and courageous performance of our personnel, allowed the full rescue of the crew. The Venezuelan State undertakes the corresponding legal actions.

Chávez lives!… The Homeland continues!

Independence and Socialist Homeland! ... We will live and win!

Always loyal!… Traitors never!

Caracas, March 31, 2020

VLADIMIR PADRINO LÓPEZ

Chief General

So you are complaining that the 30 crewmembers on board did not assist by bringing on board the (presumably) armed men who were just trying to illegally capture it in international waters?

I wouldn't have rendered immediate aid either, as it is VERY likely that some of the swimmers would have remained armed. Hang around and wait for another rescue boat to show up just to ensure no deaths.

And then this disaster at the end:

Chávez lives!… The Homeland continues!
Independence and Socialist Homeland! ... We will live and win!
Always loyal!… Traitors never!

I used to thing such exaggerations were the place of fiction... No socialism really does expand propaganda that much. Image if Trump wrote something like "The Right Forever! Republicanism defeats all! Death to Liberals!" at the end of one of his official letters. Thats how vulgar that language is and it is on government documents. Oof.

philip964 wrote: Thu Jun 11, 2020 3:43 pm https://finance.yahoo.com/news/venezuel ... 00304.html

Lack of fuel may create famine, no fuel to sow crops.