Hands off Venezuela
Statement by the revolutionary government of Cuba
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns the massive increase in pressure and punitive measures by the US government to prepare for a military adventure disguised as “humanitarian intervention” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It calls on the international community to actively prevent its implementation.
Between the 6. and 10. February 2019 have flown military transport aircraft to Rafael Miranda Airport in Puerto Rico, San Isidro Air Base in the Dominican Republic and other strategically located Caribbean islands. This probably happened without the knowledge of the governments of these nations. These flights started from US military installations operating special forces and naval infantry units for covert operations, including governments of other countries.
Political media and the press, including the United States, have already shown that extremist actors in the US government have designed, managed and organized the coup attempt in Venezuela directly and in detail through Washington's illegal self-proclamation from Washington. These actors look back on a long history of actions and slander aimed at provoking or promoting wars. These include National Security Advisor John Bolton, National Security Council Director for the Western Hemisphere, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
They are personally or through the State Department putting massive pressure on numerous governments to force their support for the arbitrary demand for new presidential elections in Venezuela, while promoting the recognition of the usurper, who as a parliamentarian received barely 97.000 votes, while more than Six million Venezuelans elected Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros last May.
In response to the resistance of the Bolivarian and Chavist populations to the coup attempt expressed in the massive demonstrations in support of President Maduro and the loyalty of the Bolivarian national armed forces, the United States government has intensified its international political and media campaign and unilateral coercive measures reinforced against Venezuela. These include the blockade of billions of dollars of Venezuelan money on third-country bank accounts and the theft of revenue from our brotherhood's oil sales. These measures cause serious humanitarian damage and have serious consequences for the population.
Along with this momentous and unjustified expropriation, the United States intends to create a humanitarian pretext to launch a military aggression against Venezuela. They intend to use intimidation, pressure and violence to introduce alleged humanitarian aid into the territory of this sovereign nation, a thousand times lower than the economic damage caused by the blockade policy imposed by Washington.
The usurper and self-proclaimed “President” has shamelessly agreed to call for US military intervention to obtain such “humanitarian aid”. He has called the sovereign and dignified rejection of this maneuver a "crime against humanity".
High-ranking US officials arrogantly and brazenly remind every day that "all options are on the table, including military ones" with regard to Venezuela.
In constructing pretexts, the United States government has resorted to deception and slander in submitting a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council that cynically and hypocritically expresses great concern over “the humanitarian and human rights situation (...) the recent attempts that To block the provision of humanitarian aid, deplore the existence of millions of migrants and refugees (...), the excessive use of force against peaceful demonstrators, the collapse of peace and security in the region ”and demand“ the necessary measures ”against it.
It is clear that the United States is preparing the ground to forcibly create “a humanitarian corridor” under “international protection”. They will invoke the “obligation to protect” civilians to take “all necessary measures”.
It is important to remember that in the run-up to the wars they waged against Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, the United States has adopted similar strategies and similar pretexts. The price has always been an immense loss of life and enormous suffering.
The US government is trying to eliminate the Bolivarian and Chavista revolution because it is currently the biggest obstacle to the exercise of imperialist rule over our continent and the planned expropriation of the Venezuelan people, with its world's largest oil reserves and other extensive strategic resources.
As Army General Raúl Castro Ruz warned on July 14, 2017: “Aggression and coup violence against Venezuela harm our America and only benefit the interests of those who are eager to divide us, to exercise their rule over our peoples without worrying about the incalculable To continue to take care of the consequences of the conflicts in this region as we experience them in different parts of the world. "
The story will severely condemn a new imperialist military intervention in the region and the complicity of those who irresponsibly accompany it.
The sovereignty and dignity of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the peoples of the South, are decided today in Venezuela. It also decides on the validity of norms and rules of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. Here and now it will become clear whether the legitimacy of a government is determined by the explicit and sovereign will of its people or by the recognition of foreign powers.
Cuba's revolutionary government calls for international mobilization to defend peace in Venezuela and the region on the basis of the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a peace zone, which 2014 adopted with the signature of the leaders of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) has been.
Cuba welcomes and supports the Montevideo Mechanism, an initiative of Mexico, Uruguay, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and Bolivia, which aims to preserve peace in Venezuela, on the basis of the principle of non-interference in internal affairs, equality of laws States and the peaceful settlement of disputes, as stated in its recent statement.
Cuba's government welcomed the positive reception by President Maduro and the international community of this initiative and expressed its concern that the United States Government is firmly opposed to the dialogue initiatives promoted by various countries, including the Montevideo mechanism.
The revolutionary government of Cuba reiterates its firm and unchanging solidarity with the constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros, the Bolivarian and Chavista revolution and the civil-military union of its people, and calls on all peoples and governments of the world to defend peace and to defend themselves over the political or to oppose ideological differences to a new imperialist military intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean that will harm the independence, sovereignty and interests of the peoples of Rio Bravo to Patagonia.
Havana, 13. February 2019
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