The Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, gave a press conference where she declared that they oppose the armed action of the United States and assured, “we are willing to defend our country.”
After several speculations about his whereabouts, Rodríguez appeared on national television after Nicolás Maduro and his wife were kidnapped by US forces, as a result of a military operation led by the government of Donald Trump.
In his press conference, Trump was brutal in his imperial treatment with Venezuela. While boasting of military superiority and showing it as a message to his geopolitical competitors, he stated that “we will control Venezuela until a transition is possible.”
He spoke openly about the way in which they intend to dispose of the country’s oil. When asked if there would be a second attack, he responded that if necessary they would do so, more forcefully. That is, Venezuela is currently under the extortion of American bombs.
When asked about how they would control the country, who was ruling in Venezuela, he mentioned Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and explicitly ruled out María Corina Machado, the main leader of the right-wing opposition and active promoter of US intervention.
“She does not have the leadership or the support to be the leader of the transition,” he stated, while pointing out that Rodríguez would have had a long conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in which she would have shown herself willing to “collaborate.”
Thus, it seems that the neocolonialist bet on a “peaceful transition” would be with a government led by those who are still in power in Caracas, but with the gun of imperialism over their heads, as a guarantee that their demands are met.
The Venezuelan vice president called on the population to resist the action of the United States and assured that they will not resign themselves to being a colony.
In the brief speech, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez reaffirmed that in the country “there is only one President, who is Nicolás Maduro”, she demanded the release of him and Cilia Flores, his wife, she repeatedly insisted on the country’s independence, on the legacy of Simón Bolívar, that Venezuela “never again would be anyone’s colony”, but she also reiterated that they are willing to respectful dialogue with the government of the United States.
She also spoke about the efforts of all sectors of the country – she is the main government articulator of the Government’s relations and agreements with national businessmen – to move the economy forward.
Rodríguez spoke on state television from Caracas with his brother, the president of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, the Minister of the Interior, Diosdado Cabello, and the ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense.
Vice President Rodríguez did not indicate any response measures against imperialism, neither economic nor military. He raised the generic call to “be on the streets” and indicated “the Venezuelan people, who have strategic patience, will know how to find the way to defend themselves.”
At the moment, these statements do not correspond to Trump’s claims. In fact, at the closing of this note, the statements of the American Secretary of States, Marco Rubio, to the New York Times were known, indicating that he reserved his judgment on the Vice President’s denial, and urging her to “take advantage of a ‘historic opportunity’ to serve the country.”
The statements of the Venezuelan Vice President were given within the framework of announcing the opening of the Defense Council, implying that this body was meeting and evaluating the situation. At the moment, it is not clear how the “control of the country” to which Trump alluded will take place.
The military aggression against Venezuela by US imperialism seeks to intimidate the entire region as part of its strategy of hemispheric control, guaranteeing the privileged and unrestricted access of the United States and its corporations to strategic energy and mineral resources, particularly oil, and reinforcing its political and military dominance over the continent in the face of any form of resistance.
For this reason, from the Permanent Revolution Current – Fourth International (CRP-CI), as a socialist, anti-capitalist and internationalist current, we call to firmly repudiate this new military escalation, its imperial arrogance and its openly colonial character. We speak out unambiguously for the most determined internationalist repudiation against this military intervention by US imperialism. For the defeat of Trump’s militarist offensive! Without giving the slightest political support to Maduro’s authoritarian regime, we resolutely placed ourselves in his military camp and fought for the defeat of the United States.
We also reiterate our total repudiation and denunciation of the politicians of the rancid national right, such as María Corina Machado, Leopoldo López, Edmundo González, Ledezma, etc., who act only as auxiliaries to such neocolonial purposes, which have been demanding military intervention from Trump.
Our condemnation is raised from a class perspective, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist, totally independent and left-wing opposition to the Maduro government. We affirm that only the conscious mobilization of workers and people can effectively confront this aggression.
Today more than ever, it is an urgent task for the working classes and people of Latin America, together with the conscious sectors of the youth, the working class and the intellectuals of the United States, to take the lead in actively condemning this criminal aggression.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
