The National Network on Cuba sends it solidarity to Bolivarian Venezuela
and its elected President Nicholas Maduro during this moment of turmoil
inspired, fueled and fomented in the U.S. We demand: “U.S. hands off
Venezuela”!
Although Pres. Maduro was elected almost a year ago following the
untimely death of historic President Hugo Chavez Frias, the U.S.
government signaled its hostile intentions by refusing to recognize
Maduro’s election and the right of the Venezuelan people to determine
their future.
This is the very same U.S. government that rushed to recognize the 2002 coup in
Venezuela that was reversed by the mass mobilization of the people and their
social, political, and military movements. We have learned from the history of
U.S. terror against Cuba from the earliest days — bombing, invasion, chemical
and biological weapons, attempted assassination — and the five Cuban men unjustly
imprisoned by the U.S. for infiltrating the Miami-based terror bombers
of Cuban hotels and restaurants in the 1990s.
Shortly after his appointment, Secretary of State John Kerry referred to
Latin America as the “backyard” of the U.S. Although he later stated
that the Monroe Doctrine of U.S. domination over Latin America
and the Caribbean was dead, it was a retraction in words, not in deeds.
The attempt at destabilizing Venezuela is a desperate measure to destroy the
unity exemplified by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean
States (CELAC). Through CELAC, the Bolivarian Alliance of the People of
Our Americas (ALBA), PetroCaribe, Bank of the South and other
co-operative organs of self-determination for the people of Latin
America and the Caribbean, the standard of living for millions are
improving. It will not be turned back. “U.S. Hands off Venezuela!”
NNOC co-chairs
