[Peace-discuss] Maduro: We’re In The Same Struggle As The People Of The United States

Fri Sep 26 08:29:14 EDT 2014

  Maduro: We’re In The Same Struggle As The People Of The United States

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Educate! <http://www.popularresistance.org/category/educate/> Maduro 
<http://www.popularresistance.org/tag/maduro/>, Solidarity 
<http://www.popularresistance.org/tag/solidarity/>, US 
<http://www.popularresistance.org/tag/us/>, Venezuela 
<http://www.popularresistance.org/tag/venezuela/>
By Margaret Kimberley, www.blackagendareport.com 
<http://blackagendareport.com/node/14435>
September 25th, 2014
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    “Maduro’s enemies at home have declared war on their own government
    and people.”

In the Bronx, New York, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro reminded 
black Americans what they have lost as a result of following misleaders 
and worshipping Barack Obama. Before corporate dollars and Barack Obama 
delivered a crippling blow to black politics, African Americans were in 
the forefront of opposition to United States foreign policy.

More than any other group in the country, black people could smell a 
foreign policy rat as soon as it was spawned by Washington. Any claims 
of dangers to American interests were met with skepticism and outright 
disdain. Every declaration of criminality from the Gulf of Tonkin 
resolution to Operation Just Cause to Operation Iraqi Freedom were known 
to be frauds meant only to keep the rest of the world under America’s thumb.

The late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was the great liberator of his 
country and as such earned the enmity of the United States government. 
Venezuela was an independent nation but not independent of the dictates 
of imperialism. This country never rejected Manifest Destiny or the 
Monroe Doctrine and still sees itself as entitled to rule over all of 
North America and South America and indeed the whole world.

Nicolas Maduro has made mighty efforts to continue the Chavez legacy. He 
has been met with terrific opposition from the same domestic interests 
who tried to undo Chavez and by the United States and its allies. 
Maduro’s enemies at home have declared war on their own government and 
people in an attempt to make Venezuela ungovernable and bring down the 
Bolivarian revolution.

          “This country never rejected Manifest Destiny or the Monroe
          Doctrine.”

Maduro is to be applauded for not succumbing to United States pressure 
and protecting his nation from intrusions and interference. At the same 
time he has continued the Chavez tradition of making common cause with 
people here in this country who also want to see a just world free from 
imperialism and the inequality that creates so much suffering.

Chavez began the practice of using the Venezuela owned Citgo oil company 
to help not only his countrymen and women but impoverished people here 
as well. In this country, so often called “the richest country in the 
world” the safety net is frayed and in some places non-existent. Many 
people in this rich land live without adequate heat or in places like 
Detroit, even without water. If Venezuela had an extra supply of that, 
they would surely lend a helping hand.

Maduro does the same and he used the annual United Nations meeting in 
New York as an opportunity to speak to Americans who understand and 
support the need for people around the world to be free of United States 
domination. At Hostos Community College in the Bronx, Maduro explained 
his presence there 
<http://telesurtv.net/english/news/Venezuelas-Maduro-Meets-with-Bronx-Community-Leaders-and-Residents-20140923-0069.html>.

    “This meetings enable us to see us, to talk, about social struggle
    …in essence we are the same, you people here in the Bronx and in the
    United States, and in Venezuela, we´re the same, these meetings let
    us see that, recognize it.”

    So many lies they tell about Venezuela, whose only crime is to … try
    to transcend capitalism, they declare us sinners because of our
    right to dream, to build humanist socialism.”

    “In essence we are the same, you people here in the Bronx and in the
    United States, and in Venezuela.”

Maduro has reason to reach out to Americans as the United States 
continues its tradition of subverting the institutions it claims to 
support whenever they deliver an unwanted result. Venezuela should have 
no trouble taking its rotating seat on the United Nations Security 
Council representing Latin America and the Caribbean, but in 2006 the 
Bush administration pressured other nations to vote no. Venezuela was 
deprived of the rights that a United Nations member state is supposed to 
have.

Now the corporate media <http://venezuelanalysis.com/news/10928> are 
following the Obama administration in attacking Venezuela. The 
Washington Post called Maduro “the economically illiterate former bus 
driver.” Maduro quite rightly responded by labeling the paper’s 
assertion racist and made it clear that their little barbs would not 
dissuade his country from exercising its rights which the United States 
feels no need to respect. The New York Times 
<http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/theatrics-to-come-on-the-u-n-security-council/> 
urged that another nation challenge Venezuela’s seat. Without a hint of 
irony the Times claims to want to spare the world from “petty theatrics” 
should Samantha Power have to sit next to Maria Gabriela Chavez.

The path to liberation is not just national, but international. High 
crimes are committed here and abroad and all of them must be exposed and 
opposed. On the same day that Maduro came to the Bronx, Barack Obama 
began bombing Syria and Iraq. A Venezuelan voice on the Security 
Council, even temporarily, would expose American crimes. That is why 
leaders like Nicolas Maduro are important and why black people must 
reclaim their history of supporting them.

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