Neither Cohabitation, Nor Transition! Venezuela Has Already Decided: ALBA Movements

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August 16, 2024 Time: 2:32 PM

The idea of ​​a joint government with the US-backed, coup-plotting far-right regime is a disdain for the Venezuelan rule of law.

On Friday, ALBA Movements, an organization that brings together grassroots movements from 25 countries in the Americas, issued a statement rejecting the claims of the presidents of Colombia and Brazil who proposed the formation of a cohabitation government in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected in the July 28 elections. Below is the statement from ALBA Movements:

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“Respect for the sovereignty and self-determination of peoples is a principle that every revolutionary project must give priority to. It must make that principle a political banner in international relations, even in the face of conservative foreign pressures that always seek to undermine it.

The social and popular movements that know, love and defend the Bolivarian people reject the slightest idea or proposal to develop diplomatic, political, military or other forms of intervention in Venezuela, such as that of some “progressive” sectors in the region, because it is unusual and untimely. This idea, for example, comes from some “progressive” sectors in the region and is aimed at ignoring the results of a closed electoral process.

These insinuations are nothing more than a denial of Venezuela’s sovereignty and a lack of respect for the will of the people, as expressed in the elections of July 28. While we recognize the democratic spirit of the governments of Brazil and Colombia, we expect their leaders to rise to the level of the peoples they represent and who elected them.

Respect for the sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, its institutions and the full awareness that allowing half-hearted versions or suggesting extra-national methods to “solve” the attempted coup only creates opportunities for imperialism to bury the Revolution it has been dreaming of for more than 25 years.

Neither Petro would ever join a “National Front” led by Alvaro Uribe, nor would Lula be part of a coalition led by Bolsonaro. The far right, which is by definition anti-democratic, would never allow that. It does not even make pragmatic sense to ask Venezuela to do so.

Neither the media, nor the Organization of American States, nor the United States, nor any other country in the region. Only the Venezuelan people, through the strength of their legitimate institutions, will determine their destiny.

The suggestion of a co-government with the US-funded, coup-plotting far-right movement, which has used physical and symbolic violence to attack Chavista organizations, militants and the people, is a disregard for the functioning of the Venezuelan rule of law and its constitution, which does not provide for run-off elections or foreign audits. No country would be willing to give up its sovereignty by allowing other countries to review its electoral processes.

It is very simple: the Venezuelan legal framework provides for a procedure in case there are doubts about the electoral process, namely the filing of a petition to the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court. This process is currently underway at the initiative of President Nicolas Maduro himself, and the Court’s ruling should be the final word on any speculation.

ALBA Movements calls on progressive and revolutionary forces committed to the anti-imperialist struggle to actively defend Venezuela in this context of an attempted coup d’état, which appears to have been carried out by a fascist opposition sector, but which is in line with the US strategy of regional control.

Today they target Venezuela, tomorrow they will go after our people. If we do not defend Venezuela now, tomorrow it will be too late for us. Let us not be confused or mistaken: the enemy remains the same, even if he disguises himself in new clothes and masks.

We are also the same. We are the ones who promised Commander Chavez to always be loyal. We are the ones who committed to achieving the second and final independence. We are the ones who will always defend the sovereignty of our continent.”

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