U.S. Criminal Threats Against Venezuela Cannot Be Allowed to Stand!
- ALBA Social Movements Canada,
Ottawa Branch -
After years of brutal sanctions and threats of
military intervention against Venezuela, the U.S.,
frustrated by the failure of all the attempts to
impose regime change, has escalated their attacks
by accusing Venezuela and President Nicolás Maduro
of narco-terrorism and offered a $15 million
reward for his arrest or assassination along with
the other leaders of the Bolivarian Revolution.
Only yesterday [March 27], the U.S. was invoking
a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, blaming Maduro
and calling for his overthrow in the name of the
human rights of the Venezuelan people, to give
their umpteenth attempt at regime change some kind
of legitimacy. Now that mask has been cast aside
and the U.S. is openly resorting to a blatant form
of targeted assassination, a repugnant form of
international bounty hunting. This must not pass!
Needless to say, the U.S. authorities did not
present a single shred of evidence to support
their accusations. It is a well-known fact that it
is the U.S. through the CIA and its main ally in
Latin America, President Duque of Colombia who are
the main sources of narco-terrorism in the region.
 This dangerous and
criminal action of the Trump administration comes
at a time when Venezuela and countries around the
world are mobilizing their resources to fight the
COVID-19 pandemic which is rapidly expanding.
Peoples around the world are uniting in an
unprecedented international effort to overcome the
virus and defend the health and safety of the
people. It comes at a time when the U.S. itself
has become in recent days the epicentre of the
pandemic.
It has been recently reported that eight
countries representing around one quarter of all
humanity, say that Washington's actions are
undermining their response to the COVID-19
pandemic. The governments of China, Cuba, Iran,
Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Syria and
Venezuela -- all under sanctions by the United
States -- sent a joint statement to the United
Nations Secretary-General, the UN's High
Commissioner on Human Rights and the Director
General of the World Health Organization calling
for an end to the unilateral American economic
blockade as it is illegal and a blatant violation
of international law and the Charter of the United
Nations.
In recent weeks, nations have been calling out
for increased cooperation, for a pooling of
resources and a setting aside of differences to
work together to overcome the planetary pandemic.
The times are crying out for new international
relations under the banner "One Humanity, One
Struggle." The U.S. is intent on running counter
to the needs of the people on the world scale and
is hindering the forward march of the people with
their sanctions, their ongoing wars of aggression
and occupation and their plots for regime change.
These latest hoodlum activities of the U.S.
against Venezuela must not pass!
This latest outrageous provocation by the U.S.
administration creates a very dangerous situation
for the people of Venezuela and all the ALBA
countries. The invitation to violence against the
democratically-elected government of Venezuela not
only poses a clear threat to the independence and
sovereignty of Venezuela but also threatens the
stability of the whole region of Latin America and
the Caribbean.
The U.S. criminal threats cannot be allowed to
stand! The Venezuelan people and their President
Nicolás Maduro, deserve the support of Canadians
and peoples all over the world against these
latest U.S. provocations.
Hands Off Venezuela!
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 10 - March 28, 2020
Article Link:
U.S. Criminal Threats Against Venezuela Cannot Be Allowed to Stand! - ALBA Social Movements Canada,
Ottawa Branch
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