Kingston, Jamaica, October 13, 2017
PRESS STATEMENT
President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela
WE DENOUNCE LUIS ALMAGRO’S LATEST UNLAWFUL INTERVENTION IN THE AFFAIRS OF VENEZUELA
Friends of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounce the actions of the Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General Luis Almagro, who, today — the 13th of October 2017 – in Washington DC in the United States of America (USA), purported to swear in the members of a so-called “parallel” Venezuelan Supreme Court, in gross violation of the principles of international law and sovereignty.
Almagro’s actions are nothing less than a gross and offensive attempt to frustrate the Venezuelan people’s peaceful and democratic process !
On the 30th of July 2017 we were all inspired by the Venezuelan people’s courage, when over 8 million people participated in the elections for a National Constituent Assembly, and thereby halted the campaign of orchestrated violence that sectors of the political Opposition forces in Venezuela had inflicted on the nation.
The peace-loving peoples of the world looked on at this spectacle, inspired by the Venezuelan people’s assertion that the only path forward is a democratic and constitutional one.
Today’s unlawful events in Washington, on the other hand, are an ugly and repugnant repudiation of the Venezuelan people’s openly expressed desire for peace and constitutionality, and reflect illicit interference by external forces in the sovereign processes of Venezuela.
While this takes place in Washington D.C., in Venezuela itself, members of the Government, the Opposition and other relevant entities campaign for gubernatorial elections that will take place this Sunday the 15th of October. Furthermore, after many efforts by the Government to establish dialogue, the Venezuelan political opposition has finally agreed to begin talks in a peaceful and lawful manner. In light of this background, one is forced to ask why– at this time of all times– is Almagro carrying out an activity that can only be described as an illegal and destructive intervention in the internal affairs of Venezuela?
How can a multilateral organization like the OAS justify swearing in an illegitimate Supreme Court in the territory of a foreign country? This is a travesty beyond all comprehension, and the member states of the OAS would be well advised to take immediate steps to dismiss the organization’s unprincipled and errant Secretary General.
Today’s actions at the OAS disrupt Latin America and the Caribbean’s shared commitment to self-determination and to the sovereign equality of all states, and must be condemned by all right thinking and peace-loving people.
We encourage all Venezuelans to go out and vote in numbers in the gubernatorial elections scheduled for Sunday the 15th of October!
Indeed, we say to the Venezuelan people:- The world celebrates your determination to defend a democratic model that is participatory and protagonist. And we stand with you in safeguarding our region as a Zone for Peace, in keeping with the “Havana Declaration” approved by the Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).
Long live the Bolivarian Republic and the Bolivarian Revolution!
By the Friends of Venezuela:
David Comissiong. Caribbean Chapter, International Network In Defense of Humanity
Cikiah Thomas. Global Afrikan Congress
Christophe Simpson. Left Alliance for National Democracy and Socialism
Bobby Clarke. Clement Payne Movement of Barbados
Trevor Brown. Jamaican Cuban Friendship Association
Pablo Works. Jamaican Peace Council-JPC
Hope Mc Nish.Jamaican Peace Council
David Denny. Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration
Trevor Prescod. Israel Lovell Foundation of Barbados
Gerald Perreira. Organization for the Victory of the People (Guyana)
Khafra Kambon. Caribbean Pan-African Network
David Abdulah. Movement for Social Justice (Trinidad & Tobago)
Adisa “Aja” Andwele. Cultural artiste of Barbados
Ayo Moore. Caribbean Chapter, Network In Defense of Humanity
Thelma Gill-Barnett. Clement Payne Movement of Barbados
John Hunte. Israel Lovell Foundation
James Early. Institute for Policy Studies (USA)
ChenziRa Kahina. Caribbean Pan-African Network
Francisco Perez. Citizen of Venezuela
Everton “Heru” Holligan. Khemit Konnections (Barbados)
Felipe Noguera. Pan-African Federalist Movement
(more names and signatures follow on)
I can see the would-be despots of the “Friends of Venezuela” would love to have the unfettered and corrupt life-over-death power of their Marxist heroes. They are the usual filth like Bobby Clarke, the Commissiong parasite, and a motley rabble of non-productive, chippy fellow-travellers. This unpleasant gang would be better named the “Enemies of Venezuela”, as they are certainly the enemies of the ordinary Venezuelan people..
So, just as I expected, President Nicholas Maduro’s United Socialist Party (PSUV) won 17 of the 23 governorships that were up for grabs in yesterday’s gubernatorial elections in Venezuela.
The Western “international” media might be able to fool people outside of Venezuela with their Psychological Warfare based propaganda, but they cannot fool the people who actually live in Venezuela and know first hand what is going on.
The reality is that the white,elitist, fascist and racist Opposition overplayed their hand and “woke up” the masses of working class Venezuelans with their campaign of orchestrated violent street protests (inclusive of the BURNING of several black or dark skinned Venezuelans), orchestrated shortages of a number of consumer items, and treasonous calls for the United States of America to strangle the Venezuelan economy and to invade and otherwise attack the country militarily.
They so turned off the working class that on 30th July 2017 over 8 million adult citizens defied the Opposition boycott and their intimidatory threats of violence, and voted for the establishment of a National Constituent Assembly to discuss and analyze all the current problems and predicaments facing the country and to devise new governance structures and policies to respond to said problems and predicaments.
This was a sure signal that the working class ( a significant number of whom had refused to vote in the 2015 National Assembly elections, thereby permitting the Opposition to win control of the National Assembly) were energized once again and would support their party– the PSUV– in the gubernatorial elections of Sunday 15th October.
So the socialist, anti-imperialist PSUV is back on track with their Bolivarian Revolution. And It is onward now to a re-election victory for President Maduro in the Presidential elections of 2018.
In the immortal words of former Prime Minister of Barbados, Erskine Sandiford, the American government and their puppet News Media could like it or lump it! Venezuela does not belong to them — it belongs to the Venezuelan people.
DAVID COMISSIONG
This is par for the course David. Whenever the Venezuelan Opposition party loses an election in Venezuela, they ALWAYS accuse the Government of fraud– even when the Government won elections at the height of the charismatic Hugo Chavez’s popularity. But when they win elections ( as they have twice done during the Chavez / Maduro years) there strangely is no fraud. No wonder the Opposition calls itself the MUD !
The only reason the Opposition now control the National Assembly is because they won the December 2015 National Assembly Elections that were organized by the same Maduro administration that is in office today, using the same electoral system that is in place today. (Incidentally, an Electoral System that has been heralded by international experts– including the Jimmy Carter Centre– as among the best in the entire world).
I was in Venezuela three weeks ago. In fact I have been to Venezuela three times this year. I repeat that you simply CANNOT believe anything that the Western News media tells you about Venezuela. These people are so expert at distorting– nay, creating — reality, that it is actually frightening.
You simply have to go to Venezuela to see for yourself if you want to know the truth.
DAVID COMISSIONG
@David
Many people outside of Venezuela do not know what to believe because they are in the main takers of news from the traditional sources like the WSJ for example.