source: https://newsvoice.se/2019/02/president-nicolas-maduro-open-letter-usa/
original introduction: The following open letter was published online by President Nicolas Maduro on his personal Twitter account. NewsVoice publish the unedited letter in its entirety. The translation was provided by Nino Pagliccia a freelance writer and activist with focus on the Americas. / Torbjorn Sassersson, editor, NewsVoice.se
Nicolas Maduro writes:
“If I know anything, it is about peoples, such as you, I am a man of the people. I was born and raised in a poor neighborhood of Caracas. I forged myself in the heat of popular and union struggles in a Venezuela submerged in exclusion and inequality. I am not a tycoon, I am a worker of reason and heart, today I have the great privilege of presiding over the new Venezuela, rooted in a model of inclusive development and social equality, which was forged by Commander Hugo Chávez since 1998 inspired by the Bolivarian legacy.
We live today a historical trance. There are days that will define the future of our countries between war and peace. Your national representatives of Washington want to bring to their borders the same hatred that they planted in Vietnam. They want to invade and intervene in Venezuela – they say, as they said then – in the name of democracy and freedom. But it’s not like that. The history of the usurpation of power in Venezuela is as false as the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It is a false case, but it can have dramatic consequences for our entire region.
Venezuela is a country that, by virtue of its 1999 Constitution, has broadly expanded the participatory and protagonist democracy of the people, and that is unprecedented today, as one of the countries with the largest number of electoral processes in its last 20 years. You might not like our ideology or our appearance, but we exist and we are millions.
I address these words to the people of the United States of America to warn of the gravity and danger that intend some sectors in the White House to invade Venezuela with unpredictable consequences for my country and for the entire American region. President Donald Trump also intends to disturb noble dialogue initiatives promoted by Uruguay and Mexico with the support of CARICOM for a peaceful solution and dialogue in favor of Venezuela. We know that for the good of Venezuela we have to sit down and talk because to refuse to dialogue is to choose strength as a way. Keep in mind the words of John F. Kennedy: “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate”. Are those who do not want to dialogue afraid of the truth?
The political intolerance towards the Venezuelan Bolivarian model and the desires for our immense oil resources, minerals, and other great riches, has prompted an international coalition headed by the US government to commit the serious insanity of militarily attacking Venezuela under the false excuse of a non-existent humanitarian crisis.
The people of Venezuela have suffered painfully social wounds caused by a criminal commercial and financial blockade, which has been aggravated by the dispossession and robbery of our financial resources and assets in countries aligned with this demented onslaught.
And yet, thanks to a new system of social protection, of direct attention to the most vulnerable sectors, we proudly continue to be a country with high human development index and lower inequality in the Americas.
The American people must know that this complex multiform aggression is carried out with total impunity and in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations, which expressly outlaws the threat or use of force, among other principles and purposes for the sake of peace and the friendly relations between the Nations.
We want to continue being business partners of the people of the United States, as we have been throughout our history. Their politicians in Washington, on the other hand, are willing to send their sons and daughters to die in an absurd war, instead of respecting the sacred right of the Venezuelan people to self-determination and safeguarding their sovereignty.
Like you, people of the United States, we Venezuelans are patriots. And we shall defend our homeland with all the pieces of our soul. Today Venezuela is united in a single clamor: we demand the cessation of the aggression that seeks to suffocate our economy and socially suffocate our people, as well as the cessation of the serious and dangerous threats of military intervention against Venezuela. We appeal to the good soul of the American society, a victim of its own leaders, to join our call for peace, let us be all one people against warmongering and war.
Long live the peoples of America!
Nicolás Maduro
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela”
I fear his open letter will fall on deaf ears. Venezuela and it’s riches are a magnet. We shall see if Maduro can prevail.
B.F.
A little addition to my comment. Maduro is putting up a good fight. Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA is reportedly moving bank accounts of its joint ventures with foreign companies to Russia’s Gazprombank:
https://www.rt.com/business/451078-venezuela-pdvsa-gazprom-accounts/
I wonder if Washington expected this.
This should have been done three years ago.
The biggest weapon the US has is sanctions and banking freezes on gold and “storage” of funds.
They did this to Gaddafi and Libya’s sovereign funds. Goldman Sachs disappeared tens of billions.
The Iranians had 150 billion frozen for years. Reportedly, only have received 30 billion back in the nuke deal, now canceled.
Yes !!!
Maduro is the head of the government and like it or not I do not think he knows how to run the show. I don’t want to point out his occupational experience that one would provide on a CV but he and/or his cabinet lack forward thinking abilities. No way to figure what the issues are inside that government but the danger was staring them in the eyes for years. They could have done a lot lot more to prepare for this sort of financial attack.
For the most part, zombiefied ears. But the zionazi-gay media will not allow even them to hear what Maduro says. But the letter cost Maduro little to write and even a few of the still living hearing his words is worth the effort.
Hey Nicolas, Amerikans don’t read. You should send them a video instead, if possible with Madonna or Michael Jackson as background music.
Even so, that video would be declared un-constitutional or something equally earth-shattering in Pindo-centric Universe.
Venezuela’s salvation lies in teaming up with Russia and China. It’s instructive to look at what Chávez did 20 years earlier when his appeal to the spoiled, pampered medical community for help with the government’s public health programme fell on deaf ears: He turned to Cuba which was very ready to help with no strings attached.
Since the army has stayed loyal to the Republic, Nicolas Maduro should feel free to act harshly, if he isn’t already. Otherwise, there are the truly horrible examples of Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovich and Czechoslovakia’s Edvard Beneš, who preferred to surrender to Western/Nazi threats and violence, despite the loyalty of the armed forces at their disposal. Chile’s Salvador Allende didn’t even have that.
You are very out of touch with the way many many Americans think these days. Maduro is right, we are victims ourselves of our own government. Doesn’t mean we don’t care or seek knowledge outside the mainstream propaganda about the world around us.
Strategically, its not quite that simple. Venezuela does not have the capacity to refine it’s vast volume of oil. Prior to the recent embargo, U.S corporations shipped Venezuelan crude to U.S. refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. Such a strategy kept the immense deposits of Venezuelan crude under the control of North American Corporations.
Because of the embargo, there is no longer a way to refine and consequently market Venezuelan oil. New refining sources must be developed One possibility might be for developing countries to build their own refineries. Another might be to develop a refining technique that would permit small-scale processing of crude within countries wanting to escape dependence on refined petroleum. Crude could be shipped directly to needy markets to be refined locally. The practicality of such ideas would increase if processing would be limited to producing diesel and lubricating oils… not gasoline.
Such methods would also increase the Gross National Product by creating jobs and, in essence, a whole new industry within participating countries.
Send an email to those guys. I swear, they need practical help and lots of it. Problem is will they listen as it might be too late for that. I’m hoping I am wrong and they pull out of this mess.
In Canada, there is controversy over a proposed pipeline to transport Alberta’s heavy tar sands output to the West coast for shipping and refining in Asia. The hazards of a spill lead to opposition from the coastal province (B.C.) One suggestion is to build a refinery in Northern Alberta, so at least, refined oil could be transported in the pipeline, which is easier to clean up.
An oil and gas industry analyst actually put forward the argument on BNN that the global oil and gas sector has all refining infrastructure in place, and that won’t change even with this idea coming up again and again. This view has plenty of support. So we’re supposed to accept that the ecological infrastructure of the Canadian coastline is malleable — but the oil and gas sector global infrastructure is fixed. This is the mindset Venezuela is up against with attempts to build a new refinery. Just so you know.
Lets be objective and have a more comprehensive look at he current situation. The U.S. has just embargoed a country that has the world’s largest petroleum deposits. These are deposits that U.S. refineries have become dependent upon. If the supply of Venezuelan crude is no longer available, then the U.S. refineries along the Gulf of Mexico will be in serious trouble.
Such a situation will have profound effects, not only on the national petroleum industry, but will seriously influence Wall Street markets and a shaky U.S. national economy. To top it off, the U.S. has formerly alienated Iraq and has recently embargoed Iran… both major oil producing countries. In essence, it appears as though the U.S. has shot itself, not only in one, but in both feet…and its too embarrassed to say: ‘oww!’ publicly. It cannot afford to drag out the stand-off, nor can the U.S. afford more futile invasions by printing worthless pieces of paper and calling them money.
Why not form partnerships with the rest of the world and give up this silly idea of trying to conquer the globe?
@Earl and Anon (re tar oil refineries). An acute observation on “the Law of Unintended Consequences” but why build more oil refineries? Tar oil is becoming ever more expensive to extract and to refine. The future is with renewables that depend on limitless solar energy: solar electricity, solar photosynthesis (wood and alcohol), solar generated wind and water power. Or with the ‘new’ generation of nuclear power stations (which ought to have been build decades ago) that do not produce deadly plutonium waste. These recent Rothschild Wars against Venezuela, Russia, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Iraq are a sign of fossilization in the mind of Global Capitalism: they are locked into the 1914 Anglo Capitalist mindset of ‘making a quick killing’ by takeover of Mesopotamian (and other) oilfields. China alone among the Great Powers seems to be thinking 50 years ahead by encouraging the manufacture of solar panels.
Very sharp comment, Earl Sharp!
Eriz Zuesse article is interesting… just costs too much to make oil usaable…too much waste products in its manufacture..people switching to cleaner fuel souces…Eric asks really how much “value ” does it have to the economy….the refining company posts less and less “profit”…..etc
”The American people must know that this complex multiform aggression is carried out with total impunity and in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations, which expressly outlaws the threat or use of force /…/ ”
Whether the Exceptionals and Indispensables know or do not know, it’s precisely their government’s gangsterism and the suffering of its victims that appeal to their genocidal instincts as a colonial settler implant. Also explains 100% their sympathies for the Zionist Entity and its highly similar track record.
”Long live the peoples of America!”
Minus the Pindos and their northern Ukronazi infested neighbours. Respect to Nicolas Maduro and Venezuela from Sweden.
https://sputniknews.com/world/201902101072284843-venezuela-crisis-un-resolution/
The US is cruising for a bruising. No good thing is left in Uncle Sam. The entire leadership is on statins, the soul destroying drug of the West. The skin thinned out to paper. Their colour is yellow. Their livers destroyed.
The medicated madmen leading the West.
Western man take a look at your leaders skin palour…is it showing jaundice…is it yellowish.?
If it is yellow you are looking at a psychopath…chemically deranged leadership.
I like that: “Crusin for a Bruizin”. Sounds like a rap title.
P.S. Whoever invented auto spell check should burn in hello.
Thank you, I hope the great American ignorance project fails and more of us see his words. Who am I kidding, Americans will say he is lying and that he kills his people while he steals from them. We learned in school that America is exceptional and we need to bring freedom to the world. Only when we realize this freedom is death for the natives and profits for our corporations will ignorance fail.
Thanks for translation Nino.
The whole document is rather defensive and unveils weakness of Maduro’s governance.
Impact on us population will be minimal because his words will never penetrate nepotism and ignorance shield.
He should appeal more to what’s left of American conscience, for instance Venezuela’s program to help us families with free heat oil and emphasize it. What was purpose of this help really?
War is coming . Pompeo just announced Iran sponsored “terror” cells in Venezuela.
I had somewhat the same reaction as S75ponny – I thought as I read that Maduro’s language assumed that his target audience was familiar with the history and true current conditions in Venezuela – an extremely dubious assumption, at best. It will not have the desired effect on the presumed target audience – the US middle and laboring classes – because they won’t understand a word of it.
Jack!
Thx for discussion.
Yes, very dubious and imprudent indeed. A bus driver, president Maduro in charge of his country, mhmm. I am certain he is doing his best but no, he isn’t VVP.
Weapons shipment from north was just intercepted, why those north diplomats were not summoned and why despite being ordered out of the country they are not gone? What about countries participating in Lima group meeting in Canada, why he didn’t mention that? To be a president is not just a title, it is a huge responsibility for a very huge bus.
I am not promoting conflict but is there other alternative under those circumstances?
Fifty years ago, the streets of Leningrad taught me one thing, If a fight’s inevitable , you must strike first,” Mr VVP
PS: discussion and exchange of ideas should be encouraged.
We appeal to the good soul of the American society, a victim of its own leaders, to join our call for peace, let us be all one people against warmongering and war.
Do most Americans actually have a “good soul”. Remember, they re-elected Dubya, knowing — or should have known — that he was killing Iraqis while lying about them having WMDs.
I know nothing of Venezuelan politics but have read quite a few speeches in my time. As such I can affirm that Maduro made an excellent speech in his Open Letter to the Peoples of America. One that may go down in history as a turning point in American mentality: there is only one America; and Venezuela with the USA are only two among The Peoples of America. Long live the Peoples of America!
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/sputniknews.com/amp/latam/201902101072283836-meteorite-caracas-space-fire/
Interesting alledged meteor strike Venuzuela.
Looks very similar to the recently reported phenomena over a Russian military base.
That the Russians say alledged meteor is without question a hypersonic warning shot across the West’s bows.
Sad and weak. No wonder most communism in Europe and South America fails eventually. These know nothings weaklings simply are NOT qualified to run a country. Maduro should have declared a national emergency by now, or maybe eve marshal law, asked China and Russia for help, and both Russia and especially China should have send maybe 5000 solders in a show of force.
Remember what Pinochet did after killing Aliende? Yeah, I AM old enough to remember. Pinochet declared marshal law, hunted all the Commies down, captured them and mass killed them using the army. Maduto should do the same. No time for silly open letters that NO American will ever hear of.
Come on, bus driver, drive that bus or get off the seat.
Time after time left Goverments have not acted soon enough in the face of Reich threats,Aliende in Chile,he had to go out fighting with an AK in his hand,Yanukovych even though you couldn’t call him left was given the same treatement,insane McCain and Nuland were flying into Kiev like they owned the place,they should have been held at the airport and put back on the next flight,Maduro is trying to reason with a Rabid dog,not possible,it was on the news today Guaido has told his people to advance on the bridge toward the border where they are trying to get the so called aid in,they are hoping for violence,those mysterious snipers could turn up like they have so many times to provide the blood soaked shirt to wave at the world.
exactly my point. The communists read books and talk a lot but when the time comes they cannot do it. And I am a communist myself and was raised in a communist country. My grandfather was a communist and all he did was read books and preached Communism. I lived in Bulgaria and our Supreme Leader was just like Maduro: a shoe maker. No wonder Communism simply folded in Bulgaria in 1989.
Even Putin is showing extreme weakness that US/NATO are happy to exploit. Only the Chinese are showing some back bone I we shall see if they fold at the “negotiations” with the Don mafia. Maduro needs to step up and more importantly, Russia and CHina need to back him up.
Making Globalism Great Again
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/02/making-globalism-great-again/#more-89301
A great rant tying the zionazi-nazi attack on Venezuela into the “big picture”. Here are a relevant paragraph:
“Unfortunately, there is no America. There is nothing to make great again. “America” is a fiction, a fantasy, a nostalgia that hucksters like Donald Trump (and other, marginally less buffoonish hucksters) use to sell whatever they are selling … themselves, wars, cars, whatever. What there is, in reality, instead of America, is a supranational global capitalist empire, a decentralized, interdependent network of global corporations, financial institutions, national governments, intelligence agencies, supranational governmental entities, military forces, media, and so on. If that sounds far-fetched or conspiratorial, look at what is going on in Venezuela.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-11/coup-coup-why-venezuelas-guaido-doesnt-have-constitutional-leg-stand
Article showing just how illegitimate the self promoting Guano is.
Basically the obama look a like Guano is guilty of treason. An absolute traitor to his people and indeed all mankind. A first class turd.
I was happy to see Maduro ask OPEC for help.
Every member of OPEC now knows they are next in line.
That alledged meteor in the skies of over Venuzuela has got to have anyone with any brains wondering if it was actually a little demonstration event put on by Russia for the global parasite brigade to contemplate.
https://www.voltairenet.org/article205147.html
Venuzuela a canary for the entire world