It Is Imperative to Halt
the Imperialist Military
Adventure
Against Venezuela
- Revolutionary Government of
Cuba -
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of
Cuba
condemns the escalation of pressures and actions of the U.S.
government in preparation for a military adventure under the
guise of a humanitarian intervention in the Bolivarian Republic
of Venezuela and calls on the international community to mobilize
in order to prevent its consummation.
 Between February 6
and 10,
several military transport
aircraft have been flying to the Rafael Miranda Airport in Puerto
Rico; the San Isidro Air Base in the Dominican Republic and to
other
Caribbean Islands that have a strategic location, most certainly
without the knowledge of the governments of those nations. These
flights took off from U.S. military facilities from where Special
Operation Troops and U.S. Marine Corps units operate. These units
have been used for covert operations, even against leaders of
other countries.
Media and political circles, even in the U.S.,
have
revealed
that extremist figures of that government with a long history of
actions and slanders aimed at causing or instigating wars, such
as John Bolton, U.S. National Security Advisor, and Mauricio
Claver-Carone, Director of the National Security Council's Office
of Western Hemisphere Affairs, counting on the connivance of
Marco Rubio, Senator of the anti-Cuban mafia of Florida,
designed, directly and thoroughly organized and obtained the
funds, from their posts in Washington, for the attempted coup
d'état in Venezuela by means of the illegal
self-proclamation of
a president.
They are the same ones who, either personally or
through the
State
Department, have been putting brutal pressure on numerous
governments to force them to support the arbitrary call for new
presidential elections in Venezuela, while promoting recognition
of the
usurper who barely earned 97,000 votes as a
parliamentarian, against the more than 6 million Venezuelans who
elected Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros last
May.
Mass rally in Caracas for President Nicolás Maduro's
swearing in
January 10, 2019.
After the resistance put up by the Bolivarian and
Chavista
people to the coup, evidenced by the mass demonstrations in
support of President Maduro and the loyalty of the National
Bolivarian Armed Forces, the U.S. Government has intensified its
international political and media campaign and strengthened
unilateral economic coercive measures against Venezuela, among
them the blocking of Venezuelan funds in third countries' banks,
which are worth billions of dollars; and the theft of the oil
revenues of that sister nation, which are causing grave
humanitarian damage and harsh deprivation to its people.
In addition to this cruel and unjustifiable
plunder,
the U.S.
intends to fabricate a humanitarian pretext in order to launch a
military aggression against Venezuela and is seeking to introduce
to
the territory of that sovereign nation -- by resorting to
intimidation, pressure and force -- to alleged humanitarian aid
which is a thousand times inferior, compared to the economic
damage provoked by the siege imposed from Washington.
Venezuelan military, January 24, 2019, expresses its loyalty to
the
Republic and its democratically elected President Nicolás
Maduro.
The usurper and self-proclaimed president
shamelessly
announced his disposition to call for a U.S. military
intervention
under the pretext of receiving the aforementioned humanitarian
aid; and has described the sovereign and proud rejection of that
manoeuvre as a crime against humanity.
U.S. high officials have been arrogantly and
blatantly
reminding us all, day after day, that when it comes to Venezuela,
all options are on the table, including military action.
In the process of fabricating pretexts, the U.S.
government has
resorted to deception and slanders, for it presented a draft
resolution at the UN Security Council, which cynically and
hypocritically expresses deep concern about the human rights and
humanitarian situation, ... the recent attempts to block the
delivery of humanitarian aid, the millions of Venezuelan refugees
and migrants, the excessive use of force against peaceful
protesters, the breakdown of regional peace and security in
Venezuela, and urges it to take the necessary steps.
It is obvious that the United States is paving
the way
to
forcibly establish a humanitarian corridor under international
supervision, invoke the obligation to protect civilians and take
all
necessary steps.
 It is worth recalling
that
similar behaviours and pretexts
were resorted to by the U.S. during the prelude to the wars it
launched against Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, which resulted in
tremendous human losses and caused enormous suffering.
The U.S. government attempts to remove the
biggest
obstacle --
the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution -- to the imperialist
domination of Our America and deprive the Venezuelan people of
the largest certified oil reserve on the planet and numerous
strategic natural resources.
It would be impossible to forget the sad and
painful
history
of U.S. military interventions perpetrated more than once in
Mexico, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Honduras
and, most recently, Grenada and Panama.
As was warned by Army General Raúl Castro
Ruz on
July 14,
2017: The aggression and coup violence against Venezuela harm all
of Our America and only benefit the interests of those set on
dividing us in order to exercise their control over our peoples,
unconcerned about causing conflicts of incalculable consequences
in this region, like those we are seeing in different parts of
the world.
History will severely judge a new imperialist
military
intervention in the region and the complicity of those who might
irresponsibly support it.
What is at stake today in Venezuela is the
sovereignty
and
dignity of Latin America and the Caribbean and the peoples of the
South. Equally at stake is the survival of the rules of
International Law and the UN Charter. What is being defined today
is whether the legitimacy of a government emanates from the
express and sovereign will of its people or from the recognition
of foreign powers.
The Revolutionary Government calls for an
international
mobilization in defence of peace in Venezuela and the region,
based on the principles enshrined in the Proclamation of Latin
America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, which was adopted
by the Heads of State and Government of CELAC in 2014.
It likewise welcomes and supports the Montevideo
Mechanism,
an initiative promoted by Mexico, Uruguay, the Caribbean
Commonwealth (CARICOM) and Bolivia, which seeks to preserve peace
in Venezuela based on the principles of non-interference in the
internal affairs of States, legal equality of States and the
peaceful resolution of conflicts, as stated in its recent
Declaration.
It welcomes the positive consideration given to
said
initiative by President Maduro Moros and the international
community and expresses its concern about the categorical
rejection by the U.S. government of the initiatives of dialogue
promoted by several countries, including this.
The Revolutionary Government reiterates its firm
and
unwavering solidarity with Constitutional President
Nicolás
Maduro Moros, the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution and the
civic and military unity of its people and calls upon all peoples
and governments of the world to defend Peace and put up a joint
opposition, over and above political or ideological differences,
to a new military and imperialist intervention in Latin America
and the Caribbean which will harm the independence, sovereignty
and interests of all peoples from Rio Bravo to Patagonia.
Havana, February 12, 2019
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 5 - February 16, 2019
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It Is Imperative to Halt
the Imperialist Military
Adventure
Against Venezuela - Revolutionary Government of
Cuba
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