By Pedro Santander February 7, 2019
It is undeniable; everyone comments on it, nobody ignores it: Venezuela is the most important country in the world. Its weight is such that today it is a “matter of state” in Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Paraguay, Papua New Guinea and South Ossetia.
Venezuela has a caliber of relevance that the OAS – very concerned – has held emergency sessions to deal with the “Venezuelan question”, and because of his fault the head of this organization, a certain bitter, sorry, Almagro, was expelled from his party.
Worse still, Venezuela has achieved what few have achieved: fractured the European Union, a bloc that loves consensus and speaks as one voice. Because of its tropical meddling that “Union” did not work out and the worst unknown groups have formed in the old continent: Germany, France, Great Britain and Spain on the one hand, Austria, Italy and Greece on the other.
Venezuela’s intrusion goes further and seems to be planetary: even the United Nations Security Council has convened an emergency session and here too Venezuela’s influence broke that of the “United Nations”. The UN itself, in its official communication, spoke of “Division in the Security Council” (https://news.un.org/es/story/2019/01/1450062).
That power of Venezuela is the one that possibly explains why in March 2015 a frightened Barak Obama, president of the most powerful country in the history of humanity and one in which every 28 hours the police kills a citizen of African descent, recognized a “national emergency” for the security of the United States and signs an executive decree that – putting things in their place – declares Venezuela as an “extraordinary and unusual threat” to the USA.
Faced with a threat of such caliber it is understood that the enlightened minds have invented an ultimatum unprecedented in the history of international law, giving a country 8 days to hold elections since none of the previous 25 held in Venezuela gave them peace of mind, and both Europe and the United States need peace of mind for their looting.
Venezuela is so powerful that it disturbs not only geographical spaces, but also alters the vectors of time. Because of Venezuela it seems that the world has suddenly turned back to the first half of the 20th century, and because of them we realize that it is there, in the last century, where Europe and the United States want to keep us, in that luminous century where looting was done in peace, with placidity and serenity.
This insolence of Venezuela puts us before the annoying question of whether there is a 21st century for Latin America or whether the 20th century will last forever for our continent. The Caribbean audacity of taking away the peace from countries accustomed to bossing and looting us has caused Venezuela to be defining the 21st Century for Latin America. That insolence of despising the American custom of removing and putting in place governments and beginning the 21st century by wanting to be sovereign, means that in the Caribbean part of the future of Humanity is being determined today.
That is why we are living in a historic time these days, because Venezuela today is the main trench against colonial and imperial continuity in our continent, and the most serious obstacle to the reconfiguration of the ultra-right in the world.
That is why the elites of the world, commanded by enlightened democrats such as Trump and Bolsonaro, are today leading a low-intensity world war against Venezuela. Because history shows that there are moments when, thanks to the struggle of the peoples, the fluttering of a country on the periphery of capitalism can provoke a hurricane.
Source: Rebelion, translation, Resumen Latinoamericano, North America Bureau