Venezuela
Letter from President Nicolás Maduro Moros to the Peoples of the World
 In greeting
you, with affection, I take the liberty of
addressing you on the occasion of denouncing the
grave events taking place against the peace and
stability of Venezuela, at a time when the
preoccupation of states and governments should be
the protection of the life and health of their
citizens, due to the acceleration of the COVID-19
pandemic.
As is publicly known, last March 26, the
government of the United States announced a very
serious action against a group of high officials
of the Venezuelan State, including the
Constitutional President of the Republic, Nicolás
Maduro.
This action consisted in the presentation of a
formal accusation before the U.S. justice system,
which is not only illegal but also is aimed at
backing up a false accusation of drug trafficking
and terrorism, with the sole objective of mounting
a supposed judicial process against Venezuelan
authorities.
This U.S. charade includes the unusual offer of an
international reward to anyone who provides
information on the President and high Venezuelan
officials, creating a dangerous moment of tension
in the continent. I, therefore, consider it
necessary to give an account of the facts, which
reveal the perverse plot behind the accusations of
the Department of Justice.
Just one day before, on March 25, the Bolivarian
Republic of Venezuela denounced before national
and international public opinion the organization
in Colombian territory of an operation aimed at
carrying out an attempt against the life of the
President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro Moros,
his family members, and high State officials as
well as attacking civil and military targets in
our country, with Mr. Clíver Alcalá, a retired
general of the Venezuelan armed forces, accused of
being the military chief of that operation.
This accusation was made responsibly, after it was
announced that in the process of stopping vehicles
on the road in northern Colombia, near the border
with Venezuela, on March 24, the police of that
country seized a batch of weapons of war from a
civilian vehicle.
The investigations revealed that it was a
sophisticated arsenal intended for a group of
former Venezuelan and Colombian military and
paramilitary personnel who were training in camps
located inside Colombia.
On March 26, the aforementioned Clíver Alcalá,
gave a statement to a Colombian media outlet –
from his residence in the city of Barranquilla,
Colombia -- in which he confirmed his
participation in the reported events, confessing
to being the military leader of the operation and
revealing that the weapons were purchased by the
order of Mr. Juan Guaidó, the national deputy who
calls himself interim President of Venezuela and
serves as Washington's agent in the country. He
also confirmed that the weapons were intended to
carry out a military operation to assassinate
senior members of the Venezuelan State and
Government and effect a coup d'état in Venezuela.
Mr. Alcalá clarified that the weapons were
purchased through a contract signed by himself,
Mr. Juan Guaidó, U.S. advisors and Mr. Juan José
Rendón, political advisor to President Iván Duque,
and carried out with the knowledge of Colombian
government authorities.
In the face of this confession, the unusual
response of the United States government has been
the publication of the accusations mentioned at
the beginning of this letter, with the bizarre
inclusion of the name of Mr. Alcalá, as if he were
part of the Venezuelan authorities and not a
mercenary hired by the United States to carry out
a terrorist operation against the Venezuelan
government.
As proof of this, I need no more evidence than to
mention the alleged capture of Mr. Alcalá by
Colombian security forces and his immediate
surrender to U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
authorities, in a curious act in which the
prisoner, without handcuffs, was shaking hands
with his captors, right in front of the stairs of
the plane that would take him on a special VIP
flight to the United States, which shows that in
reality, this whole set-up is about the rescue of
someone they consider a U.S. agent.
It must be stressed that the unsuccessful armed
operation was originally designed to be executed
at the end of this month, while all of Venezuela
is fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Actually, this
is precisely the main battle that concerns
humanity today.
It is a battle that our nation is successfully
waging, having managed to hold down the contagion
curve, reinforcing health provisions and keeping
the population in a massive quarantine, with a low
number of positive cases and deaths.
For all these reasons, the Government of the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela alerts our
brothers and sisters of political organizations
and social movements around the world about the
reckless and criminal steps being taken by the
administration of Donald Trump which, despite the
frightening acceleration of the growth of COVID-19
affecting the U.S. people, seems determined to
deepen its policy of aggression against sovereign
states in the region, and especially against the
Venezuelan people.
During the pandemic, instead of focusing on
policies of global cooperation in health and
prevention, the U.S. government has increased its
unilateral coercive measures and rejected requests
from the international community to lift or ease
the illegal sanctions that prevent Venezuela from
accessing medicines, medical equipment, and food.
At the same time, it has banned humanitarian
flights from the United States to Venezuela to
repatriate hundreds of Venezuelans trapped in the
economic and health crisis in that country.
By denouncing these serious facts, Venezuela
ratifies its unwavering will to maintain a
relationship of respect and cooperation with all
nations, especially in this unprecedented
circumstance that forces responsible governments
to work together and put aside their differences,
as is the case with the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
A team of Chinese medical experts with a shipment
of humanitarian aid arrive in
Venezuela on March 30, 2020. (New
China TV)
Under such serious circumstances, I request your
invaluable support in denouncing this unusual and
arbitrary persecution, executed through a new
version of that archaic McCarthyism unleashed
after World War II. At that time, they labeled
their adversaries as Communists in order to
persecute them; today they do it by means of the
fictitious categories of “terrorists” or “drug
traffickers,” without having any evidence
whatsoever.
Condemning and neutralizing these unjustifiable
attacks against Venezuela today will help prevent
Washington from launching similar campaigns
against other peoples and governments of the world
tomorrow. We must all adhere to the principles of
the United Nations Charter, principles such as the
right to self-determination, sovereignty, peace
and independence of peoples, to prevent excessive
unilateralism from leading to international chaos.
Brothers and sisters of the world, you can be
absolutely sure that Venezuela will stand firm in
its fight for peace and will prevail under any
circumstance. No imperialist aggression,
however ferocious it may be, will divert us from
the sovereign and independent path that we have
forged for 200 years, nor will it distance us from
the sacred obligation to preserve the life and
health of our people in the face of the
frightening global pandemic of COVID-19.
I take this opportunity to express my solidarity
and that of the people of Venezuela to all the
peoples who today also suffer serious consequences
from the effects of the pandemic. If we are
obliged to draw any lesson from all this difficult
experience, it is precisely that only together can
we move forward. The political and economic models
that advocate selfishness and individualism have
demonstrated their total failure to face this
situation. Let us firmly advance towards a new
World with justice and social equality, in which
the happiness and fulfillment of the human being
is the center of our actions.
I appreciate the solidarity that you have
constantly expressed towards my country and my
people, denouncing the criminal blockade to which
we and many other nations are subjected. I take
this opportunity to reiterate my respect and
affection, and to invite you and us to continue
united in forging a future of hope and dignity.
This article was published in
Volume 50 Number 11 - April 4, 2020
Article Link:
Venezuela: Letter from President Nicolás Maduro Moros to the Peoples of the World
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