Speech by Venezuelan
Ambassador
Samuel Moncada at
Permanent
Council of Organization of American States
Mr. President,
A pile of lies, falsehoods, manipulations and
calumnies
has
been constructed; a whole world parallel to reality, a whole
alternate fantasy that serves to confuse millions of people about
what is happening in Venezuela.
Today I come to make contact with reality and
tell the
world
what our truth is.
Firstly, I would like to clarify what happened
here
regarding
which government the OAS recognizes. That is the first farce, a
swindle, a fraud, a trick, a maneuver, a manipulation. They are
all trying to play tricks. Yet, it continues to work for them,
and they keep repeating it.
Mr President,
The only way that I get out of this chair, as a
representative of the Venezuelan State, and representative of the
government of Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro
Moros,
full
member of this organization with all the rights exercised for
more than 70 years, without violating international law, without
violence, without cheating, without fraud, without manipulation
and without arbitrariness, is that you, Mr. President, receive in
your hands the resolution approved by the Extraordinary General
Assembly of the OAS where 24 member states would have voted for
the suspension of the rights of the Venezuelan State in this
organization.
Mr. President,
Without that General Assembly resolution, every
act is
null
and void, and it would translate to the destruction of this
organization. What we have just heard from the Secretary-General
is false, he lies, he swindles, he says it in front of everyone.
That is why member states of CARICOM complained to him about
it.
It is not true that a Permanent Council
resolution with
18
votes can ignore a member state. It is false, it is just
propaganda. The only penalty, in all the statutes of this
Organization, that can be applied to a state is suspension and
occurs with 24 votes in a General Assembly of Foreign Ministers,
and that has not happened. Everything else is false. All those
lies are quelled the minute that I sit here. Everything else
collapses, the lie collapses, the fraud collapses. Stop lying,
get the 24 votes of the Assembly needed, and only then
would I leave here legitimately.
They permanently threaten to take away our visas.
Doing
so
would be a scam. The U.S. is using its personal or bilateral
enmity with Venezuela to affect our multilateral functioning. We
have already broken off relations with the U.S. from a bilateral
point of view.
We have to dismantle all this and bring light to
the
darkness
of lies from the eyes of the majority of the people and
international public opinion.
Each state is free to recognize whoever it wants,
but
what is
certain is that in order to get us out of here it is necessary to
comply with the [OAS] Charter. Enough of this scam!
Let us now explore the core of the other
topics.
Mr. President,
A wave of self-proclamation runs through the
hemisphere. In
Venezuela, a congressman stands in a square and proclaims himself
president; in Miami tourists gather in a restaurant and
self-proclaim themselves the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice.
Here, in this room, the Secretary General proclaims himself head
of the OAS and begins to disregard states and give orders without
having the authority to do so. He begins to take orders on behalf
of the states. He is not the head of the OAS. He speaks as if he
were the president of those states, but that doesn't work that
way. Please, you have to understand what the function of this
gentleman is here! When he calls for war, he violates everything
he should be doing here.
In the very OAS, an employee of Washington's
propaganda
bodies proclaimed himself Ambassador of Venezuela without anyone
understanding how he can occupy this post. That's why he's not
sitting here, because he proclaimed himself!
To add to the confusion, a U.S. senator proclaims
himself
Chief of our Bolivarian National Armed Forces and threatens our
officers in Venezuela. An advisor to the White House proclaims
himself the owner of our oil and robs the Venezuelan people of
more than $30 billion just a week ago while we were all
discussing which article of the Constitution was applicable to
the situation, and to avoid making the longest list, Mr. Trump,
the highest leader of the aforementioned self-proclaimed
individuals, also proclaimed himself the owner and lord of the
natural resources, territories and settlers of the colony he
calls Venezuela.
We have a true epidemic of
self-proclamations.
Mr. President,
What is going on? How do you explain this
nightmare?
Let's
look at it item by item.
The self-proclaimed Venezuelan government
approved the
U.S.
government's dispossession of our people's property for tens of
billions of dollars. He accepted at face value the appointment
made by a Florida Senator of an employee of a U.S. oil company as
Venezuelan ambassador in this country. He also said that he was
willing to authorize U.S. troops to invade Venezuela, and even a
U.S. Congressman reminded him that U.S. military interventions
can only be authorized by the U.S. Congress. In order not to make
the list too long, the self-proclaimed president defended the
measures
of
economic asphyxiation against our people, for they produce the
necessary suffering for the military to decide to support him
taking
power.
Constitutional President Nicolás Maduro Moros'
inauguration,
January 10, 2019.
Mr. President,
The coup d'état is victorious in
Washington,
where everyone
celebrates the plundering of our nation, but it has been a
failure in Venezuela where the leader needs the protection of
embassies of foreign governments, even to sleep.
In our country, one given day Washington's puppet
threatens
the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to obey him; yet another day
he accuses them of corruption and murder; then a third day he
offers them amnesty and forgiveness; and a fourth day he bribes
them. Finally, when everything fails, he ends up threatening to
assassinate them with the U.S. armed forces. That is not the
behaviour of a Venezuelan President, that is the behavior of an
agent in the service of a foreign power.
It is obvious that the puppet obeys orders from
abroad,
specifically from here in Washington. In Venezuela, the coup
d'état failed and the Bolivarian National Armed Forces,
together
with the people, are a guarantee of peace and freedom for the
nation. From here we send you a message of pride. We are proud of
our Armed Forces because they have resisted a wave, a
psychological war, bribes, threats. Today the U.S. has just
issued
new sanctions, believing that a diplomatic visa is the supreme
happiness of a Venezuelan General.
I am proud of my diplomats here at the OAS, who
have
had a
war waged on them so that they switch sides. They have been
offered
money, visas. They have been threatened, but they have
resisted. I am proud of my diplomats in the United States who
have been threatened and bribed, but have returned to their
homeland, as should be the duty of any man or woman who
admires and respects their country. We are patriots, we are not
traitors!
The failure of the coup is so clear that they
have
already
abandoned the Constitution to justify their actions. Now their
ultimate
law is a transitional statute that allows them to remain
in power indefinitely. They have already approved it. Now they do
not need elections and neither do they need to recognize other
public powers. It is the pure and hard dictatorship that leaves
behind
all those who supported this atrocity without argument because
they fought for a republic of laws. The purpose of this meeting,
that you can't hold elections in Venezuela and you have to let
the puppet remain for several years, because according to
what we hear here the system is so bad that you have to end
chavismo first, you have to get rid of all those people,
everywhere, even the governors, according to the super expert,
you have
to
get rid of all the governors to call an election. All the
elections were bad, they were terrible, except when they won in
the National Assembly, those were marvelous. They don't realize
the farce, what they are doing is justifying the dictatorship in
Venezuela. They ran out of arguments because the coup failed, the
coup in Venezuela doesn't exist!
The coup d'état failed because in
Venezuela its
leaders do
not pay a salary to anyone, they do not control one single police
car, they do not issue identity cards, they do not open a school,
they do not even produce a barrel of gasoline. It's a pathetic,
surreal fantasy, a fiction that serves to plunder for its masters
in
the United States.
Because the true nature of what is happening is
not a
coup
d'état, it is a project to convert Venezuela into a colony
governed by local salaried workers, in the manner of Puerto Rico.
These self-proclaimed persons are actually a U.S. representative
office
in Venezuela and not a National Government. That has always been
the U.S. colonial model, unlike Europeans, they don't send rulers
from the metropolis but use their local employees as
administrators. This is an attempt to reconquer Latin America as
the backyard of the empire ruled by the most self-proclaimed
person:
Donald Trump.
The real objective of this whole process of
aggression
is
to loot,
pillage and plunder. The biggest robbery in Venezuelan history
occurred last week. Mr. Trump's government robbed the Venezuelan
people of at least $30 billion in oil refineries, in
bank accounts of the Central Bank of Venezuela and [the state oil
company] PDVSA, in debt
bond transactions, and I say no more for reasons of time.
Mr. President,
Mr. Bolton, an advisor to the White House, states
that
he is
already distributing oil concessions in Venezuela to U.S.
companies. When our oil refineries were stolen, the first person
to sit down with the company's managers was not a Venezuelan: it
was Mr. Bolton, the same man who today threatens India and other
countries that buy oil from Venezuela. Mr. Bolton proclaimed
himself colonial administrator of Venezuelan oil.
It is the doctrine of Trump, who stated that he
would
only
send
his troops to other countries if 50 per cent of the loot was
stolen. I am not exaggerating; millions of people have seen this
explained on social media. It is the doctrine of war for oil,
of greed, hatred and ambition.
The Trump doctrine is joined by other European
countries. The
Bank of England stole from the Venezuelan people more than $1.2
billion in gold, simply because they can do it. No
explanation needed.
With the return of the pillage and plunder of
colonialism,
confidence in bank deposits of all countries in the world in
American and British banks is destroyed. The United States and
the United Kingdom would steal the savings of the people if they
would have the opportunity. It is the business of plundering and
assaulting those who believe in their promises of neutrality and
impartiality. International law and all contracts lose meaning
when entrapment and greed are the moral basis of empires. It is
the
Trump Doctrine: the winner takes the spoils. At least 50 per
cent.
Mr. President,
And with the greatest looting of our people in
centuries,
with gigantic theft accompanied by the most abject surrender we
arrive at the infamous humanitarian crisis.
The propaganda machine hides the motives of the
aggression,
and the scale of the robbery concentrates on the humanitarian
motives of the thieves who, now converted into some sort of
Mother Teresas of Calcutta, feel an enormous concern for the
suffering of Venezuelan people. We must thank the looters for
offering us the crumbs from the loot they took.
By destroying the economic sources of the
country, they
inflict a massive violation of human rights of our people,
generating chaos and maximum collective suffering. They use our
people as hostages to destroy social peace and weaken the
strength of the nation, this is a war of attrition.
The aggressors impose a narrative of humanitarian
rescuers.
They now want to overthrow the government because they have to
save the hungry and sick that they themselves are producing.
If they really care about the needy, just
returning the
stolen would help immediately, but that is not the goal. Of the
$30
billion that were stolen, $30 million are announced to
alleviate the effects of crime; that is an immoral and barbaric
act and that is what they call "humanitarian aid."
This is a gigantic propaganda operation. The
simplest
solution is to eliminate the measures of foreign extortion
against our people, but considering that it is about imposing a
colonial government, the handouts must be given using foreign
military force. In the same way, some gentlemen in Miami who
proclaim themselves a court have already authorized a U.S.
military
invasion of their own country. They said it yesterday here in
this
building.
Mr President,
 True humanitarian aid
can
only be neutral, independent,
universal, non-political and delivered at the request of the
recipient state. It can never be used for purposes of extortion
or aggression, let alone to justify war. This trap is clearly
seen by serious humanitarian organizations such as the
International
Red Cross or the United Nations, which have refused
to participate in this propaganda operation because it attacks
the essence of what upholds humanitarianism in the world: trust,
goodwill and peace.
If anyone wants additional and definitive
evidence of
the
perversity and immorality of this aggressive project, they can
find
it in the fact that the person in charge of the U.S. operation
today is exactly the same person who organized, in 1986, the
clandestine shipment of weapons for the civil war in Nicaragua in
airplanes camouflaged as humanitarian aid, sending weapons as if
they were humanitarian aid to kill Nicaraguans.
There is no greater cynicism in the message they
are
sending
to the world. They are the same actors, the same tricks, it is
the same simulation of interest in those who suffer.
They are the same sickly messages that one day
express
interest in Venezuelan children and the next day they say that
they are going to invade us to bring help. They are going to kill
us to save us. They are going to bomb us to feed us. It is
colonial humanitarianism that offers relief but ends up selling
the war of conquest.
Yesterday President Trump declared a security and
humanitarian emergency on his southern border. Does that mean he
is going to send food and medicine to migrants approaching his
border? No, he is going to build the wall for them.
Is it impossible to believe that those who put
children
in
cages in the U.S. and build humiliating walls are sincere when it
comes to Venezuelan children? If you want to help Venezuela,
don't threaten us with wars. Instead, give us back what you stole
from our people.
Mr. President,
Now, the last point. What's going to happen
now?
The failed coup removed the disguise of the
colonial
invasion. The self-proclaimed have no national fibre for the
country to follow. Now they are desperate with coarser, more
insolent, more strident threats. Stuck in the swamp of a
delirious plan, they can only save it with increasingly dangerous
and repugnant actions.
The first is the policy of calculated cruelty.
They are
going
to treat Venezuela as a gigantic experiment in economic
deprivation and wait for the country to burst inside and then
appear as if they were the saviors. They believe that in a few
weeks the national suffering will be intolerable and like a
besieged city of antiquity the population will surrender on its
own.
The second is even worse -- while the moral,
economic
and
military resistance capabilities of the nation are deteriorating
and clandestine operations are being prepared to justify external
military action, we know that there are secret military movements
at this very moment, as we have denounced. I want to warn of two
things: either U.S. Ambassador Carlos Trujillo had supernatural
powers of prediction several months ago when he announced that
Colombia's military forces were going to attack President Maduro,
using the ELN as an excuse, that is, he listened to what the
Colombian ambassador said today, with the marvelous powers of a
gifted man; or they are in a plan that they had known for several
months. You tell me which one you prefer: whether the
supernatural and mystical explanation or the secret, clandestine,
cruel and miserable plan.
They are the horsemen of the apocalypse: hunger,
war
and
death to obtain the conquest. All in the name of humanitarianism
that conceals its cruel ambition.
Only twisted minds, souls poisoned with hatred
and
greed can
design such vile and low plans. These are the works of criminal
organizations and not of responsible governments. They are
driving the region to the abyss while propaganda machines
hypnotize international public opinion.
There is one last scenario: U.S. public opinion
itself
can
react and reject Trump, on its behalf, and the use of its armed
forces
in
colonial wars against countries on this continent, which has
already declared the continent a Zone of Peace.
It is also possible that a peace movement will
emerge
that
prevents the death traffickers, including the Secretary General
who calls for war all the time, from deceiving the world in the
name of their greed for oil and domination.
The nations of the region and of the world can
decide
to
defend the principles of the Charters of the United Nations and
of
the OAS itself and reject the military adventure of the
supporters of the Trump doctrine, of the doctrine of 50 per
cent.
Our people also understand the existential danger
they
face
and strengthen their patriotic conscience, women and men,
civilian and military, from all regions and social origins,
are organizing themselves into a powerful national movement for
the
salvation of the homeland and for peace. This reaction weakens
the forces of destruction and leaves no room for those who
initiated this dangerous adventure.
We are in the process of a second liberation of
our
homeland
and we will not fail in our duty.
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 6 - February
23,
2019
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Speech by Venezuelan
Ambassador
Samuel Moncada at
Permanent
Council of Organization of American States
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