The Bolivarian Government Calls for National Mobilization.
In the early hours of Saturday, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez issued a statement following the start of the U.S. aggression against Venezuela.
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The Bolivarian official confirmed that the United States had kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Celia Flores. Rodriguez demanded that the U.S. government provide proof of life for President Maduro and his wife.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry also issued the following statement:
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, repudiates and denounces to the international community the grave military aggression perpetrated by the current government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and population in the civilian and military localities of the city of Caracas, the capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, especially Articles 1 and 2, which enshrine respect for sovereignty, the legal equality of states and the prohibition of the use of force. Such aggression threatens international peace and stability, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean, and gravely endangers the lives of millions of people.
The objective of this attack is nothing less than to seize Venezuela’s strategic resources, in particular its oil and minerals, attempting to forcibly break the nation’s political independence. They will not succeed. After more than two hundred years of independence, the people and their legitimate government remain steadfast in defense of sovereignty and the inalienable right to decide their own destiny. The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican form of government and force a “regime change,” in alliance with the fascist oligarchy, will fail like all previous attempts.
Since 1811, Venezuela has faced and defeated empires. When in 1902 foreign powers bombarded our coasts, President Cipriano Castro proclaimed: “The insolent foot of the foreigner has profaned the sacred soil of the Homeland.” Today, with the spirit of Bolivar, Miranda and our liberators, the Venezuelan people rise again to defend their independence from imperial aggression.
People to the Streets
The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack. The people of Venezuela and its Bolivarian National Armed Forces, in perfect popular-military-police fusion, are deployed to guarantee sovereignty and peace. Simultaneously, Bolivarian Peace Diplomacy will raise the corresponding denunciations before the U.N. Security Council, the Secretary-General of that organization, CELAC and the Non-Aligned Movement, demanding condemnation and accountability from the U.S. government.
President Nicolas Maduro has ordered all national defense plans to be implemented at the appropriate time and under appropriate circumstances, in strict adherence to the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Organic Law on States of Exception and the Organic Law on National Security.
In this sense, President Nicolas Maduro has signed and ordered the implementation of the Decree declaring a state of External Commotion throughout the national territory, to protect the rights of the population, the full functioning of republican institutions and to immediately transition to armed struggle. The entire country must activate to defeat this imperialist aggression.
He has likewise ordered the immediate deployment of the Command for the Integral Defense of the Nation and the Organs of Direction for Integral Defense in all states and municipalities of the country.
In strict adherence to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Venezuela reserves the right to exercise legitimate defense to protect its people, its territory and its independence. We call on the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean and the world to mobilize in active solidarity against this imperial aggression. As Supreme Commander Hugo Chavez Frias stated, “In the face of any circumstance of new difficulties, however large they may be, the response of all patriots… is unity, struggle, battle and victory.”
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