Canada Must Stop Interfering in the Internal Affairs of Venezuela! Respect Diplomatic and International Norms!
Picket at the University of Ottawa against the
sham ambassador of Venezuela,
November 13, 2019.
Activists, at the call of ALBA Social Movements
Canada, organized a picket at the University of
Ottawa on the evening of November 13 of an event
announced as a "meeting of the Venezuelan
community with the ambassador of Venezuela in
Canada, Orlando Viera-Blanco." To promote this
bogus ambassador, whose credentials are themselves
from a self-proclaimed president, is farcical
indeed. The problem is that the Canadian
government is one of the architects of the farce.
According to diplomatic norms, sovereign nations
nominate their ambassadors but Canada's Governor
General has recognized the credentials of a
self-proclaimed phony President of Venezuela and
is doing whatever possible to declare this
legitimate. In terms of the norms of Canadian
diplomacy, this is without precedent and shows how
desperate Canada is to do yeoman's service for the
U.S. imperialists.
In 2015, Barack Obama declared Venezuela a
"threat to the national security of the United
States" and later, former U.S. National Security
Advisor John Bolton, under the Trump
administration declared that Venezuela, along with
Cuba and Nicaragua, constituted a "triangle of
terror" and that they were the "cause of immense
suffering, the impetus of enormous regional
stability." The fact of the matter is that the
main causes of immense suffering and instability
in the region are the blockades imposed on Cuba
and now Venezuela, as well as the coups d'état --
sired in part by Canada -- against Haiti,
Honduras, Brazil and now Bolivia, amongst others.
The constant interference of the U.S. and its
cronies, such as Canada, in the affairs of
sovereign countries cannot be justified under the
cover of high ideals.
Speaking at the picket, organizers said: "Canada
is not playing the role that Canadians expect of
it. We oppose interference in the internal affairs
of other countries and we want our governments to
respect duly elected, sovereign governments
abroad. We refuse to play the game of the U.S. of
imposing regime change through destabilization,
blockades and threats of military intervention,
whether under the banner of humanitarian aid or
any other pretext. In this respect, the Canadian
government must stop its shenanigans within the
discredited Lima Group and return to basic
diplomatic norms which involve recognizing one
legitimate Venezuelan ambassador in Canada who was
appointed by the duly elected government of
Nicolás Maduro. This ambassador must be granted
all the privileges and rights which become such an
official function. Only in this way can the
Canadian government have some semblance of being
'rules-based.'"
This article was published in
Volume 49 Number 27 - November 16, 2019
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