Solidarity with Venezuela
The following call for solidarity was issued by the Web
site Rebelión (www.rebelion.org), in Spain.
At the present time, a conspiracy by transnational oil
companies and by at least the United States and Spain is under
way in Venezuela. Assuring the submissive supply of oil and the
interests of the local oligarchy, in line with the anti-people
interests of the globalizing trans national companies and the
Bush government, are the objectives of those who have seen the
legitimate and constitutional government of Hugo Chávez
as a thorn in their side.
They will not forgive him for trying to carry out
independent policies, for questioning Bush's hypocritical
anti-terrorism policies, for promoting an oil policy that will
revive the price of oil, for combating large landholdings and
for promoting the participation and the organization of the
popular, dispossessed classes. ...
They want to bring the government to its knees by
economically strangling the government and the people,
provoking starvation, chaos and civil war. In this way they are
aiming at a foreign intervention.
We call on all progressive, democratic and revolutionary
organizations and individuals to show their support for the
Venezuelan people who peacefully and legally adopted a
government and a constitution that for the first time they feel
takes them into account and promotes their active role. We also
call for rejecting the national and international leaders who
are leading the country to civil war.
Messages of support can be sent to the Venezuelan government
at msecretaria@venezuela.gov.ve and to the popular
organizations on the Web: www.puebloalzao@aporrea.org,
contacto@antiescualidos.com, opinion@soberania.info.
Reprinted from the Jan. 16, 2003, issue of
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