Women from the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) reject expressions of gender violence, discrimination and incitement to hate crimes carried out by the extreme right through social media.
In a statement, the women of the party urge the Venezuelan opposition represented by the surnames to engage in a political contest without inciting hatred.
In the document they indicate to Jorge Albornoz Oliver that they are prepared to continue serving their country and supporting the Feminist Candidate, Nicolás Maduro Moros.
They also say that “they will never again be able to subject us to ‘representative democracy’; we are fighting, defending and exercising our rights and they are not fooling us.”
Below is the full text:
From the Women’s Vice Presidency of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, PSUV, we strongly reject any act or speech of violence, machismo, racism, classism and misogyny that the Venezuelan opposition represented by the surnames wants to exercise against the patriotic women who support our Feminist Candidate, Nicolás Maduro Moros.
We invite you to engage in a political contest with dignity, without inciting hatred, as our country deserves, and we want to remind, very especially, citizen Jorge Albornoz Oliver, that we are prepared to continue to build our country, that we have a leader who defends us, with whom we exercise active and leading participation, and this July 28, for the struggles of all our ancestors, of our heroines, of the efforts of our heroes, we will lead our Comrade and Protector to Victory. They will never again be able to subject us to “representative democracy.” We are fighting, defending and exercising our rights and they are not fooling us. We are the granddaughters of Bolivar and the daughters of Chavez, we are the women of the people, we are the mothers who give life and build our country.
It is an opportune occasion to remember that phrase that Argelia Laya left us: “I have never allowed myself to be humiliated, neither for being a woman, nor for being black, nor for being poor.”
Today more than ever we say: With the Women’s Vote, Nicolás Wins Again!
