President
Nicolas Maduro:
An Open Letter to the People
of the United States
9
February, 2019
source:
original
introduction:
The
following open letter was published
online by
President Nicolas Maduro on his personal Twitter account. NewsVoice
publish the unedited letter in its entirety. The translation was
provided by Nino
Paglicciaa
freelance writer and activist with focus on the Americas. / Torbjorn
Sassersson, editor, NewsVoice.se
Nicolas
Maduro writes:
“If
I know anything, it is about peoples, 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 favor 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 high human development index and lower 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 the 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 the American society, a 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”
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela”
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