Less than 48 hours after the US attack on Venezuelan territory and after they bombed the country’s capital and kidnapped Maduro, the statements of the president in charge of Venezuela seem to ignore these facts and make enormous efforts to show docility, in a statement on social networks she states that:
“Venezuela reaffirms its vocation for peace and peaceful coexistence. Our country aspires to live without external threats, in an environment of respect and international cooperation. We believe that global peace is built by first guaranteeing the peace of each nation.
We consider it a priority to move towards a balanced and respectful international relationship between the US and Venezuela, and between Venezuela and the countries of the Region, based on sovereign equality and non-interference. These principles guide our diplomacy with the rest of the countries of the world.
We extend the invitation to the US government to work together on a cooperation agenda, aimed at shared development, within the framework of international legality and strengthen lasting community coexistence.
President Donald Trump: Our people and our region deserve peace and dialogue, not war. That has always been the predicament of President Nicolás Maduro and it is that of all of Venezuela at this moment. That is the Venezuela in which I believe, to which I have dedicated my life. My dream is that Venezuela is a great power where all good Venezuelans meet.”
The statements enable the idea of some type of prior negotiation with Trump given that they do not at any time denounce the military intervention or the murders perpetrated by the US military, but the most notable thing is that they do not mention the detention of the until then president of their own government and above all they do not ask for his freedom.
Donald Trump’s neocolonialist bet on a “peaceful transition” would be with a government led by those still in power in Caracas, but with the gun of imperialism over their heads, as a guarantee that their demands are met.
The statement by the president in charge of Venezuela opens the door to accepting these conditions and a negotiation with the US government, in a possible twist on the statements that Delcy Rodríguez made a day before where she had stated that in the country “there is only one President, who is Nicolás Maduro”, she demanded the release of him and Cilia Flores, his wife, repeatedly insisted on the country’s independence, on the legacy of Simón Bolívar, in which Venezuela “would never again be anyone’s colony.”
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
