The executive secretary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Rander Peña, stated that in the face of the current situation, all Venezuelans, regardless of their political position, must respond to the call that is the highest interest of the nation to preserve peace.
He made this statement during his participation in National Council of Sovereignty and Peace in the chapter Meeting with International Communitiesheld this Wednesday.
“It has been an extraordinary day of reflection, it enriches the appreciation we are having about threats that put at serious risk the element that has united us all, such as peace, healthy coexistence, tolerance among all,” he expressed.
Peña said that if there is something that has characterized Venezuela throughout its history, “it is its deep vocation to peace, to tolerance, to the encounter between everyone,” he said.
He highlighted, regarding the meeting with the international communities, that “Venezuela is a fertile land to fulfill dreams and it is a land that allows us all to meet, without racial, creed, or political distinctions. “I think that what is happening in other parts of the world and what is happening in Venezuela can be placed in magnificent relief.”
He recalled that in other latitudes foreigners are persecuted and humiliated, “they are treated with that condition that was believed to have been overcome in the 20th century, as a subhuman species; In Venezuela it is the opposite. In Venezuela we do not understand any other way of understanding ourselves as Venezuelans, without this rich mix of everyone who has made Venezuela what we understand it to be today,” he stated.
«The political position we have is irrelevant, those assessments, those partisan political differences become circumstantial. Right now there is a higher call and the Republic is threatened, it is a call to everyone because the very existence of the country, of the dreams that we have deposited, is threatened,” he stressed.
Peña warned that Venezuela is currently being threatened by a foreign power and, therefore, it is a moral and ethical obligation for everyone to do what is appropriate to make peace prevail.
