Fake friends and true enemies of the Venezuelan people in their fight for freedom

By: Carlos Sánchez Berzaín - 15/08/2024

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After two weeks of the Venezuelan people’s victory that on 28-J with the leadership of Maria Corina Machado, elected Edmundo Gonzales Urrutia as President of Venezuela, 21st Century Socialism executes the strategy of domestically applying State-terrorism and internationally causing delay and confusion. The crimes perpetrated by Nicolas Maduro and his group of Transnational Organized Crime have turned Venezuela into an intervened and occupied country with a civil resistance movement that -internally- is defeating the dictatorship but internationally is revealing that the Venezuelan people have fake friends and enemies who prove -time and again- they are true enemies.

Venezuela’s people are fighting for the freedom and democracy of all of the Americas because from the results of their fight depend the entire region’s stability for the next 25 years. It is impossible to ignore that, just as it happened in 1999 with the ascent of Hugo Chavez to power, how the anti-democratic project, with an anti-imperialist discourse, was launched from Venezuela and that led to the expansion of Cuba’s dictatorship in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua and now, from this same Venezuela the breakdown of Castrochavism is beginning to occur.

From an economic, political, and geo-strategic perspective, Maduro’s defeat supposes, for 21st Century Socialism, the loss of its most important dominance. Along with Venezuela’s return to freedom comes the economic toppling that will begin to dramatically accelerate and will wreak havoc in the already miserable Cuba providing the Cuban people the road to freedom, This will also have a direct impact in Bolivia and Nicaragua and in the Para-Dictatorial governments of Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, with important changes in the current relationship with the dictatorships from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.

Access to power for President-Elect Edmundo González Urrutia, with a government of unity and national reconstruction, restores security to the Americas because it removes Venezuela from its current condition of being a narco-State, the center of conspiracy, sustainment of guerrillas and organized crime, and the dictatorships’ stronghold to threaten international peace and security. Economically, it would mean the recovery of the Venezuelan oil industry in the free market, depriving dictatorships of the “bribery capital” with which they -up to now- control international votes and organizations.

To consolidate the 28-J victory with the removal of the dictatorship will make it possible for the return of nearly 8 million Venezuelan exiles who survive in different countries of the Americas and the world with a dramatic impact on the economy, healthcare and security systems of the countries that house them. To keep Maduro wielding power, illegally and illegitimately, will cause the additional exile of around five (5) million more Venezuelans at the expense of countries that let them in, and who -today- do not want to abide by their international obligation to make the Venezuelans’ popular will -expressed on 28-J- to be respected.

The true enemies of the Venezuelan peoples are those countries whose regimes need to continue occupying, controlling, intervening, and dominating Venezuela and these are; the Dictatorship-In-Chief from Cuba along with its Nicaraguan and Bolivian satellites who have also misappropriated the foreign policy of Para-Dictatorial governments from Brazil with Lula, Mexico with Lopez Obrador, Colombia with Petro, and Honduras with Castro. With a sovereign, free, and democratic Venezuela, the dictatorships from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea know the relationship will be different. These true enemies are willing to do any and everything to maintain the status quo, reason why they practice internal State-terrorism in Venezuela and are the international backers of its operator Nicolas Maduro.

Those who seem to be fake friends -because they do not decisively and efficiently abide by their legal international obligations- are those democratic States and governments who, ironically, would benefit from a free and democratic Venezuela. These are the ones who are permanently threatened by the dictatorships who use Venezuela as their base, the ones who abide by and must make others to abide by the mandates of the Interamerican Democratic Charter who in its Article 1 mandates “peoples from the Americas’ have the right to democracy and their governments have the obligation to promote and defend it. Democracy is essential for the social, political, and economic development of Americas’ peoples.”

Amongst Venezuela’s true enemies are the governments of Lula from Brazil, Lopez Obrador from Mexico, and Petro from Colombia, identified as “Para-Dictatorial” because they owe their ascent to power to Castrochavism and their acts prove the total surrendering of their internal and foreign policy to the legitimization and economic sustainment of the dictatorships from Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua. Enslaved physicians’ contracts with Cuba, acknowledgement of electoral crimes that retain Ortega in power in Nicaragua and Arce/Morales in Bolivia, covering-up of narco-States, the organization of forums to present the dictators as presidents and more, are the documented disgrace of those who now appear as mediators and continue sustaining dictator Maduro.

While sustaining dictator Maduro against the Venezuelan popular will, these true enemies as is the case of Lula, Lopez Obrador, and Petro, are committing high treason to their peoples and not fulfilling their democratic mandated obligations because if Maduro stays, the economic, migratory, security, healthcare, and integrity price will be borne the peoples from Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, perhaps with a greater intensity than the rest of the region.

The objective reality and international agreements mandate that democracies from the Americas and the world demonstrate they are true friends of the Venezuelan peoples and their own peoples and interests.

*Attorney & Political Scientist. Director of the Interamerican Institute for Democracy.

Translation from Spanish by Edgar L. Terrazas

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