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Bolivarian Government of Venezuela
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A Note to Global Research Readers
“Disinformation
by Omission”: Not a single Western mainstream media has published,
quoted or commented on President Nicolas Maduro’s Open Letter to the
People of the United States (see Google search).
This letter is addressed to the People of America. Please forward this text far and wide, across the land.
Americans
can then make up their mind. Am I in favor or against the Trump
administration’s resolve to intervene militarily against Venezuela?
Forward. Make it Go Viral.
Feb. 10, 2019
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If
I know anything, it is about people, such as you, I am a man of the
people. I was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Caracas. I
forged myself in the heat of popular and union struggles in a Venezuela
submerged in exclusion and inequality.
I
am not a tycoon, I am a worker of reason and heart, today I have the
great privilege of presiding over the new Venezuela, rooted in a model
of inclusive development and social equality, which was forged by
Commander Hugo Chávez since 1998 inspired by the Bolivarian legacy.
We
live today a historical trance. There are days that will define the
future of our countries between war and peace. Your national
representatives of Washington want to bring to their borders the same
hatred that they planted in Vietnam. They want to invade and intervene
in Venezuela – they say, as they said then – in the name of democracy
and freedom. But it’s not like that. The history of the usurpation of
power in Venezuela is as false as the weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq. It is a false case, but it can have dramatic consequences for our
entire region.
Venezuela
is a country that, by virtue of its 1999 Constitution, has broadly
expanded the participatory and protagonist democracy of the people, and
that is unprecedented today, as one of the countries with the largest
number of electoral processes in its last 20 years. You might not like
our ideology, or our appearance, but we exist and we are millions.
I
address these words to the people of the United States of America to
warn of the gravity and danger that intend some sectors in the White
House to invade Venezuela with unpredictable consequences for my country
and for the entire American region. President Donald Trump also intends
to disturb noble dialogue initiatives promoted by Uruguay and Mexico
with the support of CARICOM for a peaceful solution and dialogue in
favour of Venezuela. We know that for the good of Venezuela we have to
sit down and talk, because to refuse to dialogue is to choose strength
as a way. Keep in mind the words of John F. Kennedy: “Let us never
negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate”.
Are those who do not want to dialogue afraid of the truth?
The
political intolerance towards the Venezuelan Bolivarian model and the
desires for our immense oil resources, minerals and other great riches,
has prompted an international coalition headed by the US government to
commit the serious insanity of militarily attacking Venezuela under the
false excuse of a non-existent humanitarian crisis.
The
people of Venezuela have suffered painfully social wounds caused by a
criminal commercial and financial blockade, which has been aggravated by
the dispossession and robbery of our financial resources and assets in
countries aligned with this demented onslaught.
And
yet, thanks to a new system of social protection, of direct attention
to the most vulnerable sectors, we proudly continue to be a country with
a high human development index and low inequality in the Americas.
The
American people must know that this complex multiform aggression is
carried out with total impunity and in clear violation of the Charter of
the United Nations, which expressly outlaws the threat or use of force,
among other principles and purposes for the sake of peace and the
friendly relations between Nations.
We
want to continue being business partners of the people of the United
States, as we have been throughout our history. Their politicians in
Washington, on the other hand, are willing to send their sons and
daughters to die in an absurd war, instead of respecting the sacred
right of the Venezuelan people to self-determination and safeguarding
their sovereignty.
Like
you, people of the United States, we Venezuelans are patriots. And we
shall defend our homeland with all the pieces of our soul.
Today
Venezuela is united in a single clamor: we demand the cessation of the
aggression that seeks to suffocate our economy and socially suffocate
our people, as well as the cessation of the serious and dangerous
threats of military intervention against Venezuela.
We
appeal to the good soul of American society, victim of its own leaders,
to join our call for peace, let us be all one people against
warmongering and war.
Long live the peoples of America!
Nicolás Maduro
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
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