Yván Gil at the People's Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty. Photo: Con el Mazo Dando.
During the installation of the People’s Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty, which is meeting in Caracas, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil delivered a strong message in the face of the growing military threat promoted by the US government and its allies.
Speaking to a thousand international delegates, Gil said that “the peoples of the world have reacted decisively, supporting the path of consolidating peace in Venezuela,” and highlighted that the Venezuelan capital now shows “a peaceful, joyful, dignified and sovereign Caracas,” in contrast to those who have tried to turn the country into “a theater of military operations.”
The foreign minister denounced a systematic strategy of military harassment directed by “the deadliest power humanity has ever known”—a reference to the US, which he recalled was responsible for the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Gil stated that this same power has threatened to bomb Venezuela and, faced with the failure of unilateral coercive measures, is now “resorting to psychological and media warfare to try to break the will of the Venezuelan people.”
He emphasized that Venezuela will continue to defend human dignity, workers’ rights and the rights of Indigenous peoples, and recalled recent meetings in Caracas with Indigenous communities. He asserted that the Venezuelan people have built, since independence, all the social rights that the international right wing now seeks to take away.
He warned against efforts to revive the Monroe Doctrine, which he described as a mechanism for total domination over the continent. In response, he championed the “Bolivarian doctrine, the doctrine of the people, the doctrine of sovereignty,” as the cornerstone of resistance and regional unity.
Gil called for the Caracas debates to lead to the permanent establishment of the People’s Assembly—an international structure capable of mobilizing and responding sovereignly to any aggression.
The head of Venezuelan diplomacy stated the US offensive includes violations of the UN Charter, international air law and all norms governing relations between states.
He asserted that, despite the threats, “there is an indomitable people in the world who refuse to be dominated,” and that Venezuela is advancing with firm steps in defense of its sovereignty.
He insisted the country’s response must go beyond resistance and become a “revolutionary offensive,” with organization, coordination and concrete actions against imperialism and “its internal operatives—the same ones who two hundred years ago opposed the independence of our peoples.”
The foreign minister recalled that the US Department of War has mobilized its fleet to the Caribbean, while President Trump recently threatened—in an interview—to bomb territories in Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela, a situation Gil described as “extreme and alarming.”
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He noted the assembly is being held in an atmosphere of unity, joy and determination, coinciding with the commemoration of the Battle of Santa Inés, led by Ezequiel Zamora.
“We have a popular mandate: to triumph and to win,” he affirmed, welcoming international delegates and emphasizing that Caracas will from now on be a permanent space for the defense of peace and the sovereignty of the peoples.
(Telesur)
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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