Urgent Message to the
Political and Social Forces
of
Latin
America and the Caribbean
- Communist Party of Cuba -
Demonstration, February 21, 2019, blocks bridge between Venezuela
and
Colombia, expressing the determination of the Venezuelan people
to
defend their Bolivarian Republic.
As the Statement of the Revolutionary Government
of
Cuba
emphasized on February 13, "the escalation of pressures and
actions of the U.S. government in preparation for a military
adventure under the guise of a humanitarian intervention," not
only constitute a real threat against the Bolivarian Revolution,
but they pose a real danger for continental peace.
Washington should not underestimate the costs of
aggression
against Venezuela. The possibility of a disastrous
regionalization of the armed conflict would affect our peoples
and all their social, economic and political sectors.
We are facing a typical threat of war of
imperialist
aggression, no matter how it disguises itself, whose main
objective is the appropriation, by the United States, of the
largest certified oil reserves on the planet. Washington's
contempt for the tens of thousands of civilian victims that a
conflagration like the one being planned could produce is
evident, once again.
It would not be just an attack against the
Bolivarian
Revolution. In the logic of the hawks that control the Trump
administration's policy toward Latin America, the action is seen
as a final onslaught against the left and progressive forces on
the continent. Today it is Venezuela, tomorrow it will be
Nicaragua, Bolivia or Cuba.
National women's organization marches in mass action, February
23, 2019.
The defence of the Bolivarian Revolution thus
becomes
the
first entrenchment in the struggle for the sovereignty of Our
America, for the ideal of social justice, peace with dignity, and
Latin American unity that the founders of our noble nations
bequeathed to us.
We reaffirm the position of the Revolutionary
Government of
Cuba, when it said, "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."
Let us march together and show the Yankee Empire
that
the
peoples of the continent do have a sense of their independence
and sovereignty.
It is an opportune moment for the forces of the
São
Paulo
Forum to reclaim the political potential they represent. Our
people demand it.
The democratic and patriotic political and social
sectors of
the left have before them the possibility of demonstrating that
the best way to say, is to do, as José Martí
emphasized.
From Cuba, we urge you to win the war: let us
prevent
it from
being unleashed, let us guarantee peace for all. Let us honour
this historic decision of the Spanish anti-fascists: They will
not
pass!
March in Apure by the revolutionary militia February 22, 2019
near the
Tienditas bridge with
Colombia, where U.S. threatens to invade under the gusie of
bringing in
"Humanitarian aid."
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 6 - February
23,
2019
Article Link:
Urgent Message to the
Political and Social Forces
of
Latin
America and the Caribbean - Communist Party of Cuba
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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