The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV), Oscar Figuera, rejected on Monday what he described as a policy of “tutelage” and “external imposition” on Venezuela, while denouncing the government led by Delcy Rodríguez as an administration “subjugated to transnational capital.”
During a press conference, Figuera stated that the current global landscape is marked by stark contrasts between countries resisting the pressures of big capital and those governments that, he said, “submit without resistance.”
In that context, the communist leader asserted that the Venezuelan government belongs to the latter group: “A government on its knees, a government that accepts tutelage without resistance. A government that congratulates its oppressors. Truly, a government more shameful than any our country has ever had—since the days of independence,” he said.
Figuera argued that a political course subordinate to external interests is being imposed in Venezuela, particularly linked—as he put it—to the U.S. government and sectors of international capital, which in his view compromises national sovereignty.
The PCV leader expressed his “total rejection” of what he described as the strategy promoted by Washington to maintain its influence in the region, and called for the building of an alternative popular movement.
“What is at stake in Venezuela is building a powerful movement, led by workers and the popular movement—not by any bourgeois faction currently subordinate to U.S. imperialist capital,” he stated
He also criticized recent official initiatives such as the so-called “national pilgrimage,” noting that these seek to replace political mobilization with manipulative symbolic actions.
“Since a pilgrimage implies submission to a higher power, it means begging Donald Trump to allow them greater access to the wealth produced by this country,” he said.
Figuera accused the government of promoting a policy of “subordination and colonialism” that, in his view, seeks to demobilize the working people and divert attention from the national crisis.
The PCV reiterated that it will not participate in what it described as “a political circus,” insisting that its commitment is to the independent organization of the working class and the defense of popular sovereignty, as well as the social and political rights of the Venezuelan people.
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