The leaders of Spain, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay issued a joint statement on Sunday rejecting the US military operation that led to the ousting of strongman Nicolás Maduro and warned against the appropriation of the country's vast natural resources after the US said it would run Venezuela on the interim.
The six signatories, including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said the US military operation had violated the "basic principles of international law, in particular the prohibition of the use of force and respect for territorial sovereignty established in the United Nations Charter."
