On Sunday July 28th, 2024, the Venezuelan people expressed their will that comrade Nicolás Maduro Moros should continue to be their President and decided in favour of the defence of peace, independence and self-determination of their homeland.
In the face of imperialist harassment, external meddling, media and political manipulation and the opportunistic onslaught of the oligarchies and their representatives, the Venezuelan people decided to maintain their majority support for the option founded by Commander Hugo Chávez Frías and which has been sustained in the face of threats and external aggression, under the leadership of President Nicolás Maduro Moros, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and its allied parties.
In recent periods, the Bolivarian and pro-Chávez people have defeated the violence of paramilitary groups funded from abroad that have mourned many Venezuelan families, as well as assassination attempts, armed incursions by mercenaries and the imposition of a supposed president with no authority or legitimacy whatsoever. It has also resisted unilateral coercive measures, economic sabotage, among other actions aimed at subverting the constituted internal order.
We denounce that, under the pretext of not recognising the official results of the electoral process, in agreement between international actors and sectors of the internal opposition and in ignorance of the powers of the Venezuelan State, a return to the stage of the use of violence and destabilisation is irresponsibly encouraged in order to bring about a coup against the powers of the State to overthrow the legitimate government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
It was for this purpose that the Permanent Council of the Organisation of American States (OAS) met to analyse the presidential elections in Venezuela, when that organisation has no moral or legal authority to settle matters that only concern Venezuelans.
Considering the long history of the OAS in the service of US imperialism, of interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign states in our region, of supporting and promoting coups d'états, military dictatorships, repression and torture carried out by governments fully supported by the United States, there is no basis for an internal process such as the elections in Venezuela to be analysed there.
The double standards with a clear ideological bias of the discredited Secretary General, actively involved in the acts of violence in Venezuela in 2019, in the support of a self-proclaimed president without being elected by the people and in the promotion of the coup d'état in Bolivia in the same year, just to mention the most recent events, would be enough to disqualify the manoeuvre held today in Washington.
In an unusual manner and without respect for the internal order of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela or any other nation, the United States and some members of the OAS tried to pass a resolution in its Permanent Council urging the Venezuelan electoral authority to recount the votes cast on Sunday July 28th, with the observation of international organisations, a demand that is not made of any country.
However, the dignified attitude of a group of countries prevented the adoption of the interfering document.
A major conflict in Venezuela, as some seem to encourage in opposition to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace, would have unpredictable and very negative consequences for the entire region. On July 14th 2017, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz warned: ‘those who seek to overthrow the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution through unconstitutional, violent and coup-like means will assume a serious responsibility in the eyes of history’.
We reiterate Cuba's firm support and solidarity with the Bolivarian Government led by comrade Nicolás Maduro Moros and the civil-military union of the heroic Venezuelan people.
Havana, July 31st, 2024.
(Cubaminrex)