Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez speaking at the closing of the International Conference on Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and the Territorial Dispossession of Western Imperialism. Photo: Presidential Press.
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said that “Guyana has opened the door to the US invasion and militaristic aggression in our region,” while commemorating the 126th anniversary of the fraudulent 1899 Paris Arbitration Award.
“The current situation we, the sister countries of the Caribbean, are experiencing today is due to the fact that Guyana has opened the door to the US invasion and militaristic aggression in our region,” Rodríguez stated during her remarks at the closing of the international conference “Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and the Territorial Dispossession of the Western Empire.”
In this regard, she recalled that for many years, President Nicolás Maduro warned international organizations that ExxonMobil would serve as a platform to finance Guyana and promote imperial aggression against Venezuela.
In a national radio and television broadcast, the vice president recalled that in 1899, Venezuela was targeted for 160,000 square kilometers of territory, part of a plan by the United States and British empires to dominate the world.
“It has been 126 years since the fraudulent 1899 Paris Arbitration Award, which left lessons for humanity. It sought to seize a significant area [the Essequibo territory], 160,000 square kilometers, from Venezuela. However, it also represented a geopolitical and political scheme… they divided up the world, the then British Empire and the nascent US Empire,” she noted.
Palestine, a victim of territorial division
Vice President Rodríguez emphasized that due to territorial divisions carried out by these empires, Palestine is now the victim of the greatest genocide in history, perpetrated by Israel with the support of the US.
“We have also addressed, in these five [conference] panels, historical causes of humanity, derived from the territorial division made by empires. One of the bloodiest causes that humanity has experienced today is the Palestinian cause, our… inheritance from this cruel division by empires. Yesterday, the European empires of then and today, Western hegemony,” she added.
(Últimas Noticias) by Yusleny Morales
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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