“Venezuela today has the support, understanding and solidarity of public opinion around the world. There is no one who supports these reckless, warlike and threatening actions against a peaceful people,” said the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, in his program Con Maduro + edition 95, thanking the position of former presidents of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) and the Episcopal Conference of the Antilles, as a zone of peace in the region.
The president said that it was an act of “courage and definition” in the face of the latent threat in the entire region. “It is time to define, you are with the warriors who want death, violence, war, with the Nazis, or you are with life, the project of human coexistence and with the truth,” he said.
He said that the Bolivarian Government celebrates this support, which reaffirms Venezuela’s commitment to the truth and the defense of regional peace.
The Caribbean demands respect, to maintain it as a “zone of peace”, because the Venezuelan Government has always taken a stand with truth, with life, with joy, to continue on the path of economic growth and with the certainty of what will be done in the future.
He mentioned that the threats that Colombia, Venezuela and the people of the Caribbean are experiencing today, “we thought we would never see them.”
“The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference is silent”
On October 26, the sectoral vice president of Communication and Culture and Minister for Communication, Freddy Ñáñez, announced through a publication on his Telegram channel, a statement from the bishops of the Episcopal Conference of the Antilles in which they reject the presence of naval and military resources in the southern Caribbean, where they warn about the interference that seeks to be imposed to break regional stability.
“We stand in solidarity with all the peoples of the Caribbean, especially with those most directly affected by this situation. Together. We place our hope, trust and prayers in the search for a peaceful and just solution that defends human dignity, national sovereignty and the common good of all,” reads the statement released by the Episcopal Conference of the Antilles.
Ñáñez asserted that while the Episcopal Conference Venezuela silence, international organizations express their rejection of the military threat of the empire against Venezuela.
“The bishops of the Episcopal Conference of the Antilles observe with great concern the recent accumulation of naval and other military resources in the southern Caribbean and the possible implications this entails for the socioeconomic, political and humanitarian well-being of our region and its people,” said Ñáñez.
