More than 30 political and social organizations in Spain demanded the release of the Venezuelan diplomat Álex Saab, illegally detained by the United States Government.
In a joint statement entitled Álex Saab, a political prisoner of capitalism, the organizations denounced the double kidnapping suffered by Saab, when he was arrested in Cape Verde and illegally deported to the US on instructions from the US government.
Below is the full text of the statement:
The organizations of the Movement of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution strongly denounce the double kidnapping suffered by the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, detained in Cape Verde and also illegally deported to the United States on instructions from the US government.
Alex Saab was in charge of international supply for the CLAPs, Local Supply and Production Committees, popular organizations created at the request of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to minimize the ravages of shortages that the US blockade exerts against the people of Venezuela. The enormous and effective task that the kidnapped diplomat was carrying out helped these committees to strengthen the distribution of basic products, reducing the effects of the criminal aggression against the Bolivarian Republic.
This placed the CLAPs themselves and the Venezuelan diplomat in the crosshairs of the imperialist strategists. They cannot stand the fact that the people of Venezuela resist with unwavering integrity the economic hardship produced by the unilateral sanctions and the blockade. For this reason they decided to double kidnap Alex Saab; first when his plane made a stopover in Cape Verde and then through an absolutely illegal deportation to the United States, against which almost the entire African international community spoke out.
Once in North American territory, he was accused of false charges, for which the United States also has no power, as they were allegedly committed in Venezuela, ignoring his status as a Venezuelan diplomat. It is therefore a true double kidnapping in a colonial key by the Yankee rulers, who intend to submit the world to their orders and interests.
It is the palpable demonstration of the double standards of capitalist governments when it comes to human rights; because it is not the only case of kidnapping by these governments. Israel has arbitrarily imprisoned thousands of Palestinians, many of them minors, and in the United States they are keeping three Palestinian activists in prison, for daring to defend the rights of their people in the middle of North American territory; Ghassan Elashi, Shukin Abu Bakr and Mufid Abdulqader have been in prison since 2004; without forgetting George Abdallah, imprisoned in France for more than 38 years.
But there are more political prisoners of capitalist governments; a governor of the coalition headed by the right-wing Mauricio Macri arbitrarily imprisoned Milagro Sala, setting up false legal proceedings against her, for organizing the popular classes in Jujuy and other Argentine cities, where she had achieved important social gains for the people, which the oligarchy does not forgive .
The list is actually endless; Leonard Peltier, Munmia Abu Jammal are sentenced to life for crimes they did not commit in the United States; they are political reprisals that the press of the system never mentions; Another example of this is the Colombian Simón Trinidad. However, this supposedly free press attacks Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua every time their governments are forced to act and judge with irrefutable evidence of crimes and violence against the people. Just remember those killed by the guarimbas…
From the solidarity movement With the Bolivarian revolution we demand the immediate freedom of Alex Saab and all the political prisoners of imperialism. It is not a crime to fight against exploitation, oppression and the illegal and illegitimate measures of the capitalist system.
All our solidarity with the Venezuelan people and their revolutionary government!
Long live the Bolivarian Revolution!
Long live the internationalist struggle of the oppressed peoples!
Ever onward to victory!
Overcome!
