Chávez and his anti-imperialist character
Published at: 08/03/2024 04:00 PM
“Fuck off, you fucking Yankees, there's a decent people here! Fuck off a hundred times! Here are the children of Bolivar, the children of Guaicaipura, the children of Túpac Amaru and we are determined to be free!” , highlighted the Commander of the Revolution, Hugo Chávez, on September 11, 2008, during his speech in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo state, in the face of the siege of the empire against Venezuela and the Peoples of Latin America.
This
is just one of the many thousands of times that our Commander Chávez alerted us and denounced the imperialist
nature of the northern country with regard to its relations with Latin American countries.
In December 1994, during his first visit to Havana , Cuba, he declared at an event in his honor at the University of Havana that “we (like you) are not allowed to enter the United States either
,
we are banned from entering; we are honored as rebel soldiers, who do not
let us enter North American territory.”
To
put into context, after the triumph of the Bolivarian Revolution in 1998, due
to the revision and restructuring of bilateral relations, the United States was unable to continue with the advantageous
negotiations it had with previous governments.
From there, that country has been the protagonist, participated in and financed all the attacks
that our nation has received through the Venezuelan opposition.
Since then, the country has maintained an anti-imperialist
policy, not only to express it as a flag of sovereignty,
but to promote our own model of balance, growth and
development in social matters that had been denied during the failed model
of ignominy and surrender of pointfixism
that generated exclusion, hunger and misery; as the journalist Ailyn Chávez expressed in research
published in 2017 by the Executive Vice Presidency of the Republic.
With
this in mind and immersed in the irreducible struggle not to be a colony,
President Chávez made us see how North American
imperialism and its allies in the world have endangered
not only world peace, but the very survival of the human species on the
planet, due to the practices of extracting crude oil and the production of transgenic
foods, among other activities that contribute to global warming, air pollution and
the waters.
Later, after overcoming the oil strike and consolidating other
social achievements, Commander Chávez, at
a national rally held at the
Botanical Garden on February 29, 2004, explained to us the threat posed by the imperialist system
to the Peoples of the South, when he said: “I ratify it here, the The
Bolivarian Revolution,
after five years and three months and a little more of government and after having
gone through several stages, has entered the anti-imperialist phase. This is an anti-imperialist
revolution and that fills it with a special content that
compels us; yes, it forces us to think clearly and to act, not only in Venezuela but throughout the world.”
In a new reflection,
our Bolivarian Leader explained that the
domination of American governments, however historic and appreciated
very early by Bolívar, had
materialized: “All governments that in one way or another oppose
imperialism begin to be attacked, begin to be demonized, begin to be run over.
Two hundred years have passed since that alert to the
great visionary that was Simon Bolivar”.
It was then, that starting in
2002, after the imperialist coup d'etat backed by the Creole
bourgeoisie, when a chronology of aggressions financed
from the White House was established, the political persecution of the Bolivarian Government's model of social inclusion began during
the administration of Commander Chávez and then with the
coming to power of the President of the Republic Nicolás Maduro, to this
day.
Under the same premise, on February
29, during the anti-imperialist rally held in Caracas, President Maduro recalled that “20 years ago Commander Chávez told the world
that in Venezuela there is a revolution
anti-imperialist ,
who does not surrender to any empire and turned the Bolivarian Revolution into
the guide of free peoples”. He also emphasized that “The Liberator and the
generation of liberators more than 200 years ago, declared the
anti-colonialist character and we were right. It was only in the 20th century that
anti-colonialism imposed itself as a value of all humanity, but Venezuela raised the flag of early
anti-colonialism, the first in the world. And also in the 21st century,
we were the first,” said the national president.
Regarding this issue, the
vice-president of the
United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, stated that “we Venezuelans raise the flags of
dignity against imperialism, history impels us in the struggle of an entire People who in Revolution
decided to walk
the path of freedom, he does not give up and he moves forward with determination, courage and
courage that under any circumstance, we will continue to be anti-imperialists, socialists,
Bolivarians and profoundly Chavistas”.
In addition, Vice President Cabello emphasized in his program With
the Gavel Giving #467 that in the face of the announcements of the electoral schedule, the North American
empire responded with another aggression, renewing sanctions against
our Homeland, and assured that “We are going to move forward with sanctions or without sanctions!
Faced with the call for elections and consultation with the
People according to our constitution, what did the United States do? Renew sanctions! (...) Does it scare us?
Not at this point,” said the first vice-president of the PSUV. He also emphasized that the stability of our country will
prevail over the actions of imperialism.
This is why, and in
accordance with our determination to be free, the Venezuelan people must
remain alert to new attacks on our peace, our sovereignty and
our territory.
AMELYREN BASABE/Mazo News Team