Santo Domingo.– political organizations Wide Front and Country Alliance They held a public event this Sunday in which they strongly condemned the violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Venezuelaattributed to Government of the United States on January 3facts that they described as a serious transgression of international law and United Nations Charter.
The activity took place in the Bolivar Squarewhere artistic presentations were held and a floral offering to the liberator Simón Bolívar. During the event, Maria Teresa Cabrera read the manifesto signed by both political organizations, while doctor Guillermo Moreno He was in charge of the closing words.
In the document, the Frente Amplio and Alianza País maintained that the principles and norms of international law, which emerged after the two world wars, constitute an essential civilizational conquest for coexistence between sovereign States and a limit against the use of force, domination and expansionism of the great powers. They indicated that any action by a State outside the international order lacks legality and legitimacy, which is why it must be rejected by the international community.
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The organizations denounced how an act of war the alleged kidnapping of the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife, the national representative Cilia Floresconsidering that this action violates the guarantees that protect the heads of state. In that sense, they demanded their immediate release and warned that these events represent a dangerous escalation that threatens regional and world peace.
Likewise, they indicated that the aggression against Venezuela would have as a background the appropriation of its natural resourceswhich, in his opinion, takes the region back to colonial practices that were considered outdated. They reaffirmed that the Venezuelan people are the sole and legitimate owners of their resources, which must be exploited exclusively for the benefit of their population.
During the event, they recalled that Venezuela, the Caribbean and Latin America are not the backyard of any poweremphasizing that the peoples of the region conquered their independence and their right to self-determination more than two centuries ago. They also highlighted that the Dominican people know directly the consequences of the use of force, after the US military interventions in 1916 and 1965.
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The manifesto concluded with a call to preserve Latin America and the Caribbean as a zone of peaceand urged the Dominican state to refrain from participating in any action that threatens the sovereignty of another country, in coherence with the constitutional mandate established by the principle of non-intervention as an invariable norm of the international policy of the Dominican Republic.
