ao for Rest and Recreation! Blatant lies! This was outright intimidation!
There is written documentation that the Bush administration was involved in the coup d'etat in Venezuela of April 2002, the sabotage of our oil industry and lock out of workers in the so called general strike and economic sabotage of our economy in December 2002 - February 2003. The Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) and US Agency for International Development (USAID) have all been financing subversive, non-democratic groups of the traitorous Venezuelan opposition - to discredit our President, Hugo Chavez, with the aim of fomenting chaos and overthrowing the democratically elected government. They are using your tax dollars to do this… were you ever asked about the use of your money to subvert other nations?
You must be told the truth now……today……at this precise moment… President Chavez has faced 9 electoral or referendum contests from December 1998 to end October 2004, and has wiped the floor each time with the fascist opposition of our country.
What other world leader has gone to the polls 9 times in 6 years? Not one!
Chavez is the world's leading democrat, and these election processes have been overseen by the Carter Center and the Organization of American States (OAS). However, the Bush administration and the corporate global press refuse to accept the truth, the reality of Venezuela, and continue with their disinformation campaigns in CNN, Fox News and in influential, opinion forming newspapers of your country. Paid hacks are used to write these lies - using tax payers dollars. The CIA is behind this dirty campaign, as they were in Nicaragua in the 1980's.
What you read in the US press or see on the TV in the United States, does not reflect what is happening in Venezuela. An analysis made of US media this year indicates that 87% of all information broadcast or printed about our country and our President, Hugo Chavez, is DISINFORMATION. Bear this in mind when you next hear the news.
On Channel 22 in Miami, the Cuban-American journalist, Maria Elvira Salazar, has allowed guests on her program to call for the assassination of President Chavez and the invasion of Venezuela by the marines. This has now occurred twice so far this year. This is media terrorism - yes, media terrorism- against an independent nation, with a democratic system in place and a Constitution approved in national referendum by 73% of the voters in December 1999.
In Florida, there is not only media terrorism at work against the Venezuelan people, but there are also Venezuelan and Cuban mercenaries training in Homestead and in the Everglades, getting ready for the invasion of either Cuba or Venezuela. How is it possible that the Governor of Florida, President Bush's brother Jeb, allows these groups and these terrorist minded journalists to operate with impunity in Florida? Is this still the Wild West? Is there no rule of law?
And what about the Bush doctrine of "combating terrorism, worldwide, at any cost"? Does this not apply to Florida? There are double standards and hypocrisy at work here. We, the Venezuelan people, make a call to you, the People of the United States, to exercise public pressure and opinion on the impunity of these terrorists training in Florida, in the United States, as well as the use of TV channels to call for the assassination of our beloved President.
As part of its warmongering mentality, the Administration is preparing the ground for some sort of action in Venezuela. It is a question of oil, energy……exactly as it was in Afghanistan and Iraq. Venezuela supplies 15% of the oil the US uses and will continue to do so. However, this intimidation and interference in Venezuelan sovereign affairs must stop. We want to be left in peace to decide the destiny of our country, our children and our grand children. We have the right to self-determination as laid out in international law. And we will also defend ourselves….make no mistake about that.
Venezuela is an oil rich country and has been exporting oil and asphalt to the US for almost one hundred years. Where you are standing now is probably on asphalt sent from Venezuela. The oil revenues never reached the common people, and the result was 80% poverty in our country for decades. The money was sent offshore and rich, corrupt Venezuelans have almost US$200 billion - yes US$200 billion in offshore bank accounts, most of which was stolen form our nation with the connivance of the US oil multinationals. US$200 billion is 6 or 7 years national budget in Venezuela. Can you believe this? This is much worse than the WorldCom or Enron scandals.
President Chavez was elected by the people to change all this. And he is doing so, in the framework of a "democratic, peaceful revolution". Yes revolution. Not reforms. Reforms leave the corrupt socio-economic structure in place, and this has to be changed as well. Our aim is zero poverty by the year 2021. This is no threat to either the US Administration, or to you, the People of the United States. We just want to vindicate basic human rights in our country…..nothing more, nothing less.
To this end, nationwide health, educational, housing and social programs have been instituted as parallel strategies to the old corrupt state apparatus. For the first time in Venezuelan history, a free health service is available to all and will continue to be developed. Things are not perfect by any means, but we are progressing……combating corruption and inefficiency. We are in this for the long haul.
The Bolivarian Revolution is not built on models such as the French, Russian or Cuban revolutions, which were launched in a sea of death, violence and blood. Our revolution is peaceful and democratic since we, as humanists, respect all life, even those who oppose the changes. There has been no revolutionary altar of fire and brimstone in Venezuela. Just popular votes….and this is an example to the whole planet Earth……and even more so to nations such as Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, where the spirit of the Liberator, Simon Bolivar is alive and kicking in the collective memory of the historically oppressed in these impoverished nations. They will eventually follow Venezuela's example…in peace and democracy. Patience.
This will be the true liberation of South America - first from Spanish imperialism, then from British neocolonialism and now from US inspired neo liberalism and imperialism.
In Venezuela we do not have representative democracy any more. Our democratically approved Constitution allows for "Participative democracy with the Venezuelan people as the protagonist". In other words, elected officials cannot just do what they want. The people participate in decisions at community level to re-build Venezuela from the bottom up. Any elected officials not measuring up, from the President of the Republic down to local parish leaders, can have their mandate revoked by popular vote half way through their mandate. This is real democracy and brings inefficient, corrupt and bureaucratic officials to book, in the democratic court of the people. The masses.
We are only 25 million, but we are leading the way not only in Latin America, but in the world with our peaceful, reconstruction process. It is totally democratic. We will not allow ourselves to be exploited anymore by the global corporate empire, which feeds the machines of death in all parts of the globe. Peace. Humanism. Self-determination. Participative democracy.
Social justice. These are the corner stones of the Bolivarian Revolution, led by Hugo Chavez!
These are also our banners and we once again send this message of peace and non interventionism, out to you, People of the United States, gathered here today, defending the rights of our brothers in Iraq, and let us pray for the souls of those unnecessarily killed by unbridled corporate greed in the quest for oil and world domination.
On behalf of the Venezuelan people, and our President Hugo Chavez, we fully support your efforts and ask you to help us in terms of public opinion in your country.
We never want you to march in the future asking for "troops out of Venezuela". Let's stop it before it starts.
Peace. Love. Solidarity to you all, and our oppressed brothers and sisters in Iraq, Palestine and Afghanistan.
Long live the People of the United States. Long live the Venezuelan people. Long live peace and solidarity and no more war!!
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