Weekly meeting and press conference of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela chaired by its first vice president, Diosdado Cabello, on Monday, November 25, 2024. Photo: Con el Mazo Dando.
Vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, said that comments made by Erik Prince and MarĂa Corina Machado “do not keep us awake at night.”
Cabello make the statement this Monday, November 25, during the party’s weekly press conference. During the same event, he pointed out that since Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution decided to confront imperialism and since “we decided to be sovereignly free and independent,” the leaders of Venezuela’s government have been considered military targets by the United States.
“We are not losing sleep over what Erik Prince, an extortionist, says. Let them dream, let them keep dreaming,” Cabello said in response to Prince’s statements about alleged mercenary and terrorist actions following the inauguration of President Nicolás Maduro on January 10.
Regarding the call by far-right leader MarĂa Corina Machado for protests on December 1, Cabello dismissed its potential impact: “She has said so many things… Since 2002, she has said that there is not much time left, that we are finished, and that we are weaker every day… How many times have they said ‘this day is the date, this is the moment’? Here we are, and where are they? Missing, fleeing Venezuela.”
Machado and her far-right supporters will once again attempt to mobilize support for a so-called national day of action on December 1. Recent calls for mobilization issued by Machado have only served to demonstrate a decline in the number of her followers.
“These people are mistaken in thinking that the issue is a person,” commented Cabello. “They are not facing a person, they are facing a Revolution.”
In this context, he asked, “Where is Mr. Edmundo Gonzalez? Bullying people, traveling, and those who are detained because of them, forgotten.”
Cabello also spoked about the Liberator SimĂłn BolĂvar Law currently being discussed in the Venezuelan National Assembly. This law would provide for “30 years in prison, life sentences, [and] disqualification from holding public office” for those supporting illegal sanctions or foreign intervention against Venezuela. In this regard, he commented that trials in absentia will be held in the country: “People must understand that impunity is finished in Venezuela.”
This law was proposed in response to the passing of the interventionist Bolivar Act in the US House of Representatives last week. The Bolivar Act is another attempt by the US regime to attack the Venezuelan people and the Bolivarian Revolution.
“What they [Venezuela’s political opposition] are doing—applauding the United States, encouraging the United States to pass laws against Venezuela—must have a cost, and they must feel that the cost is high,” he said.
Cabello pointed out that Venezuela’s public has repeatedly demanded punishment for those who have asked for sanctions and invasions against the country.
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The US runs fascism
Cabello referred to the opinion of the United States government that considering Venezuela and Nicaragua to be a threat as “ennobling”:
“We are a danger to what the US is proposing, but we are an open door to peace, hope, and the tranquility of a better world,” he said during the PSUV press conference.
“The world admires seeing what these people have done to confront imperialism,” Cabello said of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and he pointed out that fascism in the world is led by the United States: “that is why, whatever they say about us, the truth provides us with a lot of strength.”
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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