An Open Letter to the People of the United States from President Nicolas

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An Open Letter to the People of the United States from President Nicolas
Maduro
By Nicolas Maduro
Global Research, February 10, 2019
Bolivarian Government of Venezuela
Region: Latin America & Caribbean, USA
Theme: History

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Feb. 10, 2019

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If I know anything, it is about people, 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 favour 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 a high
human development index and low 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 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 American society, 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
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