Hands Off Venezuela!
CARICOM Rejects Canada's Proposal to Undermine Petrocaribe
- Misión Verdad -
Meeting of Caricom, February 26-27 in St. Kitts-Navis reiterated their
rejection of outside interference in Venezuela.
Canada is trying to position Juan Guaidó in
the
Caribbean to the detriment of the constitutional government of
Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. needs to break Venezuela's
strategic alliance with Caribbean nations and shift the voting
balance in the Organization of American States. Canada, which has
meddled in the British West Indies with "aid" and warships for
decades, is sent as its errand boy to pull the chestnuts out of
the fire. Yet the Liberal duplicity is to feign that it is merely
acting in a disinterested manner at the request of the same
Guaidó. According to this fairy tale, Guaidó himself is
not able to make such an overture! A document from Global Affairs
admits "there has been no consensus among the countries of the
America."
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The online Misión Verdad periodical has access
to a
confidential document ("Non-Paper") drafted by the government of
Canada, led by Justin Trudeau, with which they tried to build a
bridge of contact between the president of Venezuela's National
Assembly (in contempt) and some countries of the Eastern
Caribbean by proposing an instrument to displace
Petrocaribe.
On March 14 the Canadian government sent a low-level
official to a meeting of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean
States (OECS), held on the island of Guadeloupe, with the aim of
facilitating a direct link between Guaidó's team and the
prime ministers whose governments make up Caricom.
In Guadeloupe, Trudeau's special envoy asked for a
meeting
with the OECS leaders, which was rejected because he did not
possess the appropriate diplomatic level necessary for such a
meeting to take place. However, Caribbean representatives
accepted a courtesy lunch where the Canadian delivered the
following document:
The government of Canada in principle would have offered
a meeting between Juan Guaidó himself and the
representatives of these countries, which turned out to be false
something that annoyed the Caribbean leaders because it
represented a sign of little diplomatic seriousness.
In spite of this, they received the document with the
proposal of the Trudeau Administration, which at all times acted
as representative of the Venezuelan opposition, which proposed
creating an organization parallel to Petrocaribe called
"Cooperation and Energy Stability Agreement."
The proposal to undermine Petrocaribe produced yet
another
sign of annoyance from the representatives of the Caribbean
countries, who reminded the Canadian envoy of their full support
for dialogue between the parties in Venezuela. They also urged
the opposition to sit at the same table with the government of
Nicolás Maduro.
They also reminded Canada of the fact that Petrocaribe
is
being sabotaged by both U.S. sanctions and regional pressure
against Venezuela, supported both by the Trudeau government and
by the Venezuelan opposition represented in the National Assembly
(in contempt).
Without further ado, the Caribbean rejected the
Canadian
proposal.
The Canadian-led anti-Venezuelan coalition tried it
this
way:
- Buying off the good will of some Eastern Caribbean
countries with negotiations that the Caribbean representatives
themselves described as petty; and
- Offering high-level
diplomatic meetings that did not materialize, and sending
low-level advisors, thus showing disrespect to the Caribbean
governments.
Finally, the Caribbean representatives made it clear
that
they do not recognize Juan Guaidó. They insisted on their
common position that proposes peaceful means of dialogue and
respect for international law, outside the strategy of coup
d'état and "humanitarian intervention" planned by
Washington.
It should be remembered that the OECS is a regional
body that
promotes technical cooperation and the sustainable development of
six independent countries and three territories of the United
Kingdom and one of France in the Caribbean Sea.
- OECS Member States (full membership):
Antigua and Barbuda,
Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint
Lucia, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Montserrat (UK Dependency)
- OECS Member States (associated membership):
Anguilla (UK
Dependency), Martinique (French Overseas
Department), British Virgin Islands (UK Dependency).
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 10 - March 23, 2019
Article Link:
Hands Off Venezuela!: CARICOM Rejects Canada's Proposal to Undermine Petrocaribe - Misión Verdad
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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