The Chancellor of the Republic, Yván Gil, published this Sunday night a statement from the Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity where they warn that the threat against Venezuela is a threat against Latin America and the Caribbean.
Below is the full text of the statement:
The Network of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity, joins its voice with that of all sectors that share the agenda of fighting for social justice, the defense of the sovereignty of the people and their human rights, and the dignity of those who resist all forms of domination, to denounce a new aggression by the United States against our sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
In the last few hours, we have seen an increase in Donald Trump’s desperate statements in which he assures the closure of Venezuelan airspace as a fact. This threat, clothed in falsehood, arrogance and disproportion, confirms the persistence of an imperialist pattern incompatible with International Law and with the living memory of free peoples.
On this date, which marks fifty years since Operation Condor, we remember how foreign interference became a systematic mechanism of repression and domination over Latin America.
Today, Venezuela stands as the epicenter of the defense of the self-determination of peoples, resisting colonial practices. History teaches us that each attempt at domination has been responded to with resistance, and that popular memory illuminates the path to sovereignty, and just as in 1902 Venezuela knew how to firmly defend its maritime sovereignty against attempts at foreign interference, today it will reaffirm with equal determination its inalienable right to protect its skies and its territory.
We are certain that Venezuela, heir to a tradition of resistance and victory, will once again assert its sovereignty, demonstrating that no external power will be able to bend the will of a free people.
