Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro lashed out
Thursday at US billionaire and presidential candidate Donald Trump for
saying Mexican immigrants were bringing crime and drugs to the United
States.
"I completely reject Donald Trump's statements.
Rogue. Thief. How dare you mess with our brothers. Your country has
already persecuted and exploited them enough," the socialist leader said
in a typically boisterous diatribe on national TV and radio.
"Venezuela raises its voice in defense of the
Mexican people offended by this magnate, this bigwig," said Maduro, the
hand-picked successor of late leftist firebrand Hugo Chavez.
Trump
made the remarks Tuesday as he announced his decision to run for
president, joining a packed field of Republican contenders for the 2016
race.
Speaking from his Trump Tower in New York, the
69-year-old property tycoon ridiculed his opponents and launched a
tirade against Mexico.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending
their best," he said. "They're sending people that have lots of problems
... They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."
Mexican Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong
dismissed the remarks as "absurd" and accused Trump of looking to stir
up controversy.
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