SANTO DOMINGO.- Left-wing organizations criticized President Luis Abinader’s speech before the United Nations (UN) on Monday and asked the President not to continue violating “the principle of non-intervention” in the internal affairs of other sister nations.
They pointed out that no president in the world can attempt to supplant the institutions of his own country or any other country.
“The president of our Dominican Republic, since Sunday, July 28, the day of the presidential elections in Venezuela, in combination with a small group of countries that receive orders from the United States of America, have attempted to supplant the National Electoral Council – CNE – of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and in turn, ignore the will of the vast majority of the Venezuelan people expressed at the polls, a result endorsed by the competent electoral body,” they said in a statement.
They pointed out that this “aberrant” position of those countries, which, they said, includes the Dominican Republic, is nothing more than a violation of the dignity and sovereignty of the Dominican people, which has cost so much in its different historical situations to achieve the democracy that is in permanent construction that the nation has.
They stated that it is not possible for President Luis Abinader to turn his back on the country’s democratic and sovereign principles on the mere whim of obeying interventionist orders.
“We demand that our nation be governed as sovereign nations should be governed. We demand respect for Venezuela’s institutions and sovereignty,” they said.
They indicated that the CNE, protected by its laws and robust electoral system, proclaimed the candidate of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and the great Patriotic Pole, Nicolás Maduro Moros, as the winner of the elections, a victory ratified, in addition, by a sentence of the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Venezuela, so that issue is not in question.
«President Abinader, by the same International Law that you upheld in your speech before the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations, by the Constitutive Charter of that organization itself, from 1945, by what is stated in the Constitution of the Dominican Republic and the supposed break with unilateralism, which opens and widens the doors of diplomatic relations, of mutual respect between nations, giving way to multilateralism that is advancing today and is intended to be stopped, for those same reasons and quotes, you should not continue violating “The principle of non-intervention” in the internal affairs of other sister nations. Have you ever asked yourself, if it were up to us Dominicans? We would have to demand the same respect that your government today denies to Venezuela,” they added.
“Enough is enough! We continue to impose recipes from the United States to govern our independent country free from all foreign powers,” they stressed.
They also demanded that the situation of the neighboring people of Haiti (referred to in their speech) be addressed within the framework of the same rights of all peoples. They pointed out that the Haitian people, like the Venezuelan people, must decide their destiny together with their political and social institutions. “The constant call to expand military intervention in Haiti goes beyond the parameters of sovereignty and peace,” they said.
They said that “the people and the Dominicans remember the collaborations in the Restoration War, the Patriotic War of April 1965, where the Haitian people gallantly defended the sovereignty of our country from the rude military invasion of the American army.”
“Let us move forward, with our republican history as a reference for our democratic struggles, in firm defense of our sovereignty, far from genuflex postures that do not represent the true feelings of the Dominican people. If we do not do so, our people will be eternally ashamed of us,” they concluded.
The organizations that signed the statement are the Dominican Committee of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, Dominican Solidarity with Haiti, United Left Movement (MIU), Dominican Popular Movement (MPD), Marxist-Leninist, Rebel Movement (MR), Force of the Revolution (FR-), Solidarity Agenda, RD, Caamañista Movement (MC), Mocano Movement of Solidarity with the Peoples, Afro-Dominican Action, Gentío for Political and Social Change, Boschist Force (in the PLD), Coordination of Feminists of the Left (COFIZ), Committee for Unity and Women’s Rights (Cudem), Patriotic Committee “Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó.
