Kids playing below a giant Venezuelan flag. File photo.
By Luwezi Kinshasa – Aug 7, 2024
The African Socialist International (ASI) condemns US rulers’ desperate attempt to steal the Venezuelan people’s right to self-determination.
We condemn US secretary of state Antony Blinken’s recognition of Edmundo González as the “winner” of the recent elections organized by the Venezuela National Electoral Council (CNE).
We consider this intervention of the US government, born from the genocide of Africans and of the Indigenous of the so-called “Americas” as a gross provocation of the people of Venezuela and of the peoples of the world.
This attack on Venezuela is an attack on the African Nation, Palestine and all oppressed nations. Anti-colonial Venezuela, from Chávez to Maduro, is a key part of the global shift that is creating a multipolar world at the expense of US colonial hegemony.
US president Joe Biden, Blinken and Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu are the triumvirate genocidaires in Palestine! With so much blood of children and women of Gaza dripping out of their hands, they are disqualified to speak on any human affairs anywhere. They lack moral and political credit to talk about freedom and democracy.
We salute the victory of President Nicolás Maduro, as a victory for the African Nation and all colonized peoples of the world!
The African Socialist International salutes the victory of President Nicolás Maduro over the representatives of the dying US led global colonialism in Venezuela, Edmundo González and María Corina Machado.
The July 28, 2024 elections were peaceful, dignified and the atmosphere was solemn everywhere. Hundreds of international election observers were present from South Africa, Senegal, Angola, England, France, Brazil, the US, Spain, Iran, Argentina, Namibia and elsewhere.
The election process was clear: each voter’s identity was verified and fingerprinted before voting electronically for the candidate of their choice; a printout of their ballot was placed in the box and their identity was once more verified upon exiting.
There were no major incidents that needed to be investigated.
The ASI sent a delegation led by myself as the Secretary General. We were able to visit seven polling stations in working class areas and bring awareness to the international Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! Campaign.
People were welcoming to us at each turn. This is a victory of the forces of the future at the expense of the forces of the past. There is no turning back in Venezuela. The US colonial government and its parasitic colonial corporations are no longer able to indefinitely steal the resources of Venezuela, which belong to the people of Venezuela.
The US has already determined years ago that it will never recognize Maduro’s anti-colonial Bolivarian victory and government
The US and their puppet collaborators know that Venezuela’s elections have historically been transparent and fair, which is why in 2012, Jimmy Carter, the colonial US ex-president, speaking to the Atlanta Carter Center Foundation said: “As a matter of fact, of the 92 elections that we’ve monitored, I would say the election process in Venezuela is the best in the world…”
The global colonial bourgeoisie worked with the local petty bourgeoisie in preparing the ground to disrupt the election results. They said for months that they will only recognize the July 28 election results if the opposition to Nicolás Maduro wins it.
The US bourgeoisie broadcast lies using the exit polls conducted and financed by the US colonial agents on the ground and outside Venezuela in violation of the Venezuelan constitution. They have no evidence that the opposition was winning.
Just one hour after polling stations closed, and before the CNE announced the official results, María Corina Machado, in violation of the Venezuelan constitution and authority, announced to the journalists that the opposition won by 70 percent. This lie was broadcast all over the world by global colonial media.
Colonial corporations’ media give voice all over the world to María Corina Machado and other local neocolonial representatives in Venezuela
María Corina Machado’s article in The New York Times on July 26, 2024 bragged about how the opposition, “should they win” the presidency, will sell out the people of Venezuela to the same parasites who bled Venezuela forever, until Hugo Chávez’s Bolivarian Revolution put that to an end.
In her own words, she said that her government will “reintegrate Venezuela into international markets; negotiate a financial and technical program with the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.”
No colonized country has ever become free and developed with the intervention of the colonial International Monetary Fund or World Bank.
María Corina Machado added more lies: “Her first step is to restore freedom, democracy and the rule of law.” This is a coded message to reimpose colonial control over Venezuela. This is a message of surrender of Venezuela’s destiny and resources to the US rulers.
Colonialism is a negation of freedom, democracy, agency and rule of law for colonized peoples. It is the dictatorship rule of the colonizers over the colonized for control of their resources.
US sanctions constitute an act of aggressive war against the people
Venezuela, Iran, Syria, and Cuba, to name a few, are under the economic sanctions of the United States government.
It is crystal clear that with over 900 sanctions against the people of Venezuela, the US is hostile and antagonistic to any genuine freedom and transformation of Venezuela for the benefit of its people.
The sanctions mean that Venezuela can’t buy certain key medicines, vaccines or pharmaceutical products, spare parts for its oil industry in the colonial market and they can’t use the SWIFT banking system.
From the white house to the state department, the CIA, the Pentagon, the colonial media and the US corporations, the primary goal of the sanctions is to reimpose colonial control over Venezuela.
It is not about democracy— the US-led global colonial mode of production does not accept loss of colonial control, because it weakens their grip over the world’s resources.
Maduro’s anti-colonial Venezuela is an existential threat to capitalism, which can’t exist without the colonial mode of production.
Freedom can’t be built on the foundation of colonialism as the global mode of production
US government intervention in the Venezuela elections has nothing to do with the promotion of freedom and democracy, because freedom can’t be built on the foundation of colonialism as the global mode of production.
We are calling on all freedom-loving nations and people of the world to condemn the US attempt to violate the constitutional rights of the people of Venezuela to decide their fate.
The people of Venezuela are not tired of the Bolivarian government of Nicolás Maduro. They are tired of US sanctions, military threats and psychological warfare that attempts to turn them against their own legitimate government.
People have fled Venezuela because of US sanctions, not because of the Bolivarian social programs and transformations.
People of Venezuela are tired of US theft of their natural resources and attacks on their social programs. They want independence and economic self-determination.
The US is intervening to steal the oil and other fabulous wealth of Venezuela, key to any continued US accumulation of capital.
The US cannot organize fair elections at home or abroad. Colonized African and Indigenous peoples within US borders have no choice or genuine alternative because they must choose between two parties of the colonizers, both which represent the status quo.
US government attacks the Uhuru Movement and the Venezuelan/Bolivarian Revolutions for the same reason
Genuine representatives of the over 40 million black people in the US, such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party leaders, fighting for African self-determination, were brutally assassinated by the US government in the 1960s.
Attacks on the freedom of Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba and of African people in the US confirm the saying of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, that it is “illegal” for colonized peoples and nations to be free under the colonial mode of production.
It is illegal under US global colonial rule for us colonized peoples to work for ourselves anywhere.
It is illegal for Venezuela to work for themselves under the leadership of President Maduro.
That is why the US government is taking to their colonial court, Chairman Omali, the founder and leader of the African People’s Socialist Party, and two leaders of the solidarity movement, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel, who work under the leadership of the African People’s Socialist Party.
The objective of the US government is to silence the reemerging movement for African self-determination inside the United States and around the world.
The US wants to overthrow the Bolivarian government, because despite all US aggression, they have done so much to bring about a multipolar world. The US and its NATO allies are opposed to a multipolar world.
González and María Corina Machado cannot say openly to the world that they are working for US colonial domination of Venezuela.
In the same way, when former US president Barack Obama, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy and former UK prime minister David Cameron invaded Libya in 2013, they could not say they were working to maintain Libya under US-led western colonial control; they claimed they were bringing democracy to Libya.
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We ask all oppressed peoples around the world to mobilize and support the legitimate government of Nicolás Maduro against any US aggression
History shows us that the US colonial government and ruling class are the main obstacles to freedom in Venezuela.
The Bolivarian Revolution of Chávez and Maduro aims to put the production and reproduction of life in the hands of the peoples of Venezuela, in solidarity with Palestinian and all other colonized peoples resisting this global colonial mode of production.
For the colonizer, elections are not about genuine democracy, they are about maintaining colonialism as the mode of production.
A quick review of the history of US aggression in South America reveals this: from the theft of half of Mexico in 1848, the overthrow in 1954 of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala and Allende in 1972 in Chile, the training and funding in the 1980s of death squads to destroy the revolution in Central America, the 2004 overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti and Obama’s failed coup to overthrow president Hugo Chávez in 2002, as well as Obama’s other coup against the democratically-elected government of Honduras in 2009.
And more recently, Pedro Castillo, the elected president of Peru was overthrown in a US-backed coup in December 2022. The US wants total control of Peru’s lithium. María Corina Machado is the Venezuelan Dina Boluarte, the US puppet in charge of Peru today.
When we say to our people in Venezuela, “reinforcements are on the way,” we mean the African Socialist International, under the brilliant leadership of Chairman Omali Yeshitela, is mobilizing and organizing African revolutionaries everywhere to complete the African Revolution by unifying the African continent, the homeland of all African people dispersed around the world.
We are calling on everyone to support the legitimate government of Nicolás Maduro!
From Palestine to Venezuela, join the resistance against the global colonial mode of production!
US genocidal leaders are disqualified to talk about freedom!
Drop all charges against the Uhuru 3!
Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Venezuela! Hands Off Africa!
