The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) categorically rejected on January 13 calls for foreign military intervention, which political actors including former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe made following the swearing-in of Nicolás Maduro.
“The PCV, throughout its history, has faced, has stood up, has resisted the offensive of imperialism against our country and this is not going to be a different situation: we Venezuelan communists are in favour of the defense of the sovereignty of our homeland,” declared Neirlay Andrade, member of the Political Bureau.
Andrade warned that the calls made by the former Colombian president are evidence of “the repetition of a scheme of the most reactionary sectors of national and international politics, which bet on violent ways out to open the way for their interests that are unquestionably contrary to those of the Venezuelan people and its working class”.
The PCV also rejected the new round of sanctions against government officials as these are used by the government leadership to violate the constitutional order.
“It is a secret to nobody that the criminal, unilateral coercive measures of imperialism against Venezuela, far from undermining the corrupt leadership that currently holds power in the country, have been the perfect excuse for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and Nicolás Maduro to implement neoliberal policies with which they cede sovereignty and auction off the assets of the nation to the highest bidder,” said Andrade.
Andrade also recalled that the PSUV has recently advanced “an onslaught against genuinely democratic, revolutionary, leftist political organizations and, in general, against all those who confront its anti-worker and anti-popular policies, using as an excuse the actions of imperialism and its lackeys.”
“Neither the sanctions, nor the unilateral coercive measures and much less a foreign military intervention are going to work for the Venezuelan people to recover the rights that have been taken away from them; on the contrary, they strengthen the general situation of misery in which thousands and thousands of working families find themselves,” she pointed out.
For the PCV, the unilateral coercive measures have also served to feed the rhetoric of the PSUV “to fabricate an image of a supposedly anti-imperialist organization.”
“We all know that this is not true; they are nothing more than empty words and bluster on the part of a corrupt elite that takes advantage of the sanctions to enrich itself, while the Venezuelan people become poorer every day,” added Andrade.
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