With Venezuela, for Peace and against Fascism

By Yaimi Ravelo  and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on August 17, 2024 from Havana

The World Solidarity Day in support of the people of Venezuela for the electoral victory of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, is an act of resistance of the peoples of the world against imperialism. Raising our voices this Saturday from different regions of the world together with the brave people of Venezuela also means fighting for global peace in the fascist-Zionist escalation sponsored by the U.S. government and its allies.

The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Cuba opened its doors to friends who responded to this global call, to accompany Venezuelans from the island in the defense of their homeland and sovereignty.

“We must all promote this movement against fascism, today Venezuela is in peace and wants to continue in peace, wants to move forward, wants to continue growing economically, wants to continue growing culturally and educationally, and we are doing it in peace,” said the ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Orlando Maneiro Gaspar at the beginning of the activity that reaffirmed Cuba’s solidarity with Maduro and people.

President Nicolás Maduro achieved a great electoral victory on July 28, with 6,408,844 million votes he was reelected as president of his nation for the next term of office (2025-2031).

“We went to the elections with courage, the president in his characteristic strategy of dialogue accepted to go to an election process that was endorsed by the people and the society, the different Venezuelan actors, the different actors of the Venezuelan society”, explained the ambassador.

Maneiro Gaspar referred that it is important to see in the Venezuelan elections not only an electoral process that elected a president, “it is not like that, in Venezuela there is a revolution, a revolution that is 25 years old and that our main architect in the revolution is Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías and he is the one we have to defend for the legacy of the Bolivarian Revolution. That is why we raise our voice for President Nicolás Maduro, who has bravely defended in all spaces the Venezuelan people, our Patria Grande, he has given a demonstration of what courage is and that is nothing other than following the legacy of Commander Chávez”.

The Bolivarian ambassador, before the participants of this solidarity meeting, narrated the violent events of Monday, July 29 of fascist character, generated by the Venezuelan opposition, which preceded the presidential elections held in peace on Sunday, July 28.

“On the 28th, a calm civic day took place, a day in peace, some foci were controlled in a timely manner, it was a day of celebration, people went out to vote and attacks to the electoral system began, cyber attacks to the electoral council (CNE), whose intention was to slow down the transmission process and of course the issuance of the first bulletin.

“It was possible to counteract and 80% of the tallies were counted and those numbers were an irreversible percentage. After that announcement, the right wing immediately came out challenging. María Corina Machado came out -he pointed out- who was not a candidate, nor is her team a party, but rather a violent group called ‘Vente Venezuela’.

“She came out saying they had 100% of the results and the second phase of the plan begins, which is the insurrectional phase and the next day they went out to the streets to generate violence, to generate destruction and to causing injuries to people. What they called the comanditos.

The Ambassador explained that the Venezuelan opposition created this structure supposedly to carry out a process of mobilization and follow up in defense of the vote. The reality showed that the objective of these comanditos was to act violently on July 28 and 29.

“This showed again that their plan was not electoral, their plan was to take power through violence and also using a new element, the digital element supported by a big tycoon.

“The comanditos went out to the streets to destroy, they went out to harm people, threaten families, and here we have comrades who threatened the family through whatsapp: ‘we know where you live and where your children study’, that is called fascism, it has no other meaning, but fascism.

The violence generated by the comanditos took the lives of 25 Venezuelans.

The ‘defenders of international human rights’ came out and demanded evidence of the tallied tally sheets from the governing body of the electoral process of a free and sovereign nation, the CNE. The interference attitude of some countries of the region propitiates imperialism to escalate the multidimensional war against a Venezuela that is recovering economically by giant steps, a power in resources coveted by those who try to subjugate the peoples.

“Venezuela is at peace, Venezuela is mobilizing at this hour in the streets to tell the world: we are at peace, we want peace, and our President Nicolas Maduro is a guarantee of progress, a guarantee of economic growth, security and tranquility. He is a regional guarantee and even that is what they have seen, the impact of Venezuela in the region.

“Venezuela is going to work for peace and we are going to accompany the president in this great task of guaranteeing peace, tranquility, progress and prosperity to all Venezuelans. We say no to fascism”.

Ambassadors and friends come out to support Venezuela

The Day of Solidarity with Peace and against Fascism held at the Venezuelan Embassy in Cuba was attended by ambassadors from countries friendly to the Bolivarian Revolution, officials from Cuban organizations and institutions, intellectuals, journalists and friends of the land of Bolivar and Chavez.

The speech of Graciela Ramírez Cruz, Cuban editor of Resumen Latinoamericano and Coordinator of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity, evidenced the deep commitment of the peoples in the defense of the Bolivarian Revolution.

“We want to convey our love to the empowered women of Venezuela, to that wonderful people who are now mobilizing and in this love the recognition to the colossal, exemplary and extraordinary battle that raises the spirit and raises the revolutionary sense of all of us”, expressed Graciela.

“A battle that did not begin on July 28, it began 22 years ago approximately, its intention was wiping the Bolivarian Revolution off the map, it is the historic battle of our beloved Venezuela.

“I cannot deny comrades, the pain felt by those of us from below, who are us from the people, of those who took to the streets to defend our progressive governments. It is difficult for us to express the deep disappointment, the disenchantment caused by ingratitude and having fallen sadly, so regrettably, into the brutal trap of imperialism in the midst of this great civilizational crisis that we are going through and that our America and humanity are going through.

In her reflection, Graciela Ramírez points out imperialism as the protagonist “in this chess game that uses these fascists of the right wing, of the oligarchy, to sweep away not only the oil, it is no longer only the wealth of Venezuela, what they want to sweep away and make disappear is the legacy of Hugo Chávez, they want to disappear Chavism because they know that Chavism means a containment wall, as is Fidelism, as is revolutionary Marxism.

“A containment dike through which they cannot pass, to eliminate Bolivarian Venezuela and to eliminate all vestige of Chavismo precisely is to take over all of us, to take over the wealth of Brazil, the billions that they have to wake up because they are coming to take over all of Latin America, and that is where they have unfortunately fallen.

“We also have to say that those who have fallen into the trap do not represent us, even those who make a shameful silence, we have to recognize it, they are very weak, they have not resisted the terrible pressure of imperialism.

“We are not going to forget. We have them written down in the memory of the peoples, as we have written down those who are forgetful, those who lost their gratitude, those who betrayed the hand that fed them and those who will be left in the middle of a labyrinth and in the middle of a crisis when the United States recognizes that the Venezuelan people in peace with their work and with their socialist democracy are not capable of dealing with them.

The Argentine-Cuban militant Graciela Ramirez described as obscene how this world that seeks to interfere in the democratic elections of a country while the Palestinian people continue to be massacred by the Zionist entity of “Israel” with horrendous chainsaw bombs, dismembering bodies.

“To the Palestinian people we ask forgiveness, for this trivial world, for this obscene world”.

Cuban intellectual and president of Casa de las Americas Abel Prieto Jimenez, agreed with Graciela on the sad position taken by some people “whom one admires for their trajectory, for their position and who suddenly take a false step at such a serious moment”, which is very painful for the peoples of the region to see.

“They set themselves on the side of the hegemonic agenda, on the agenda of the right, and in the end imperialism will pass the bill onto them.”

“You cannot fight fascism without attacking its twin brother, imperialism, that is to say, today against Venezuela those two satanic brothers, those two twin brothers are acting with all the power of new technologies,” said Abel Prieto alluding to the phrase of Cuban communist intellectual Juan Marinello in Spain in 1937.

Dr. Aleida Guevara March, daughter of the heroic guerrilla fighter, internationalist and goodwill ambassador for the Palestinian cause, also ratified her commitment in the act of solidarity with Venezuela that endorses the battle faced by the peoples. President Nicolás Maduro has achieved a perfect victory in Venezuela.

Maduro’s victory symbolizes not only an electoral triumph, but also the trust and hope placed by the people in his ability to lead Venezuela towards a prosperous future, one  that symbolizes peace for their nation and the region.

From revolutionary Cuba the voices will always be with Venezuela, with peace and against fascism.

photos by Yaimi Ravelo  and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez 

Source: Cuba en Resumen