Urgent Need to Unite the Continent to
Preserve the Peace

President Maduro at February 23, 2019 mass demonstrations in Caracas.

The U.S. military and its allies, including Canada, are amassing provocateurs at the Venezuelan border with Columbia and Brazil, inciting passions, violence and manufactured incidents to justify a military invasion of Venezuela. The scenario is a repetition of the devastating destructive wars launched by the U.S. and NATO forces against Iraq, Libya and Syria in recent years. The U.S. has also massed a naval battle group ready to attack Venezuela and it has been readying its deployments of troops, military hardware and equipment and plans in the Caribbean so as to impose its "regime change" in Venezuela through military might and to threaten the peoples of the entire region to submit to the U.S. imperialist dictate. The U.S. imperialist military's mobilization is accompanied by a concerted disinformation campaign about what is happening in Venezuela, and claims that a military intervention is for humanitarian purposes. It must not pass!

Hugo Chavez Peoples' Defence Brigades guard border with Colombia, February 20, 2019.

In Venezuela, the people are preparing for any eventuality. Their resilience is legendary and should not be either underestimated or doubted. On February 10, Venezuela's military kicked off large-scale military drills against foreign military intervention, which ran until February 15. According to President Maduro, the drills were the largest the country has held in its 200-year history. Separately, President Maduro announced that 50,000 "popular defence units" are being set up. This has a significance that must be appreciated. The arming and training of an organized people will be essential to defending their neighbourhoods, as the resistance in Syria demonstrated. He promised that the U.S. will get a South American "Vietnam War" if it decides to invade.

Youth camp set up guarding Tiendita bridge, near Colombian border, February 22, 2019.

Today, as the U.S. puts its plans into motion, the streets of Caracas have been filled with tens of thousands of people who are determined to reject the establishment of the so-called "parallel government" armed by the U.S. against their president, Nicolás Maduro, and their sovereignty. They uphold the Bolivarian Revolution that is the legacy of Hugo Chávez. Simultaneously, demonstrations, meetings and protests are being held all over the world, including in Canada, to denounce these plans of invasion, oppose the interference into Venezuela's sovereign affairs and demand that peace be preserved on the American continent.

TML Weekly is publishing this issue which addresses unfolding events.

This article was published in

Volume 49 Number 6 - February 23, 2019

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Urgent Need to Unite the Continent to Preserve the Peace

    

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