Latin Press

The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 10, 2024, p. 21

Caracas. More than 300 intellectuals, politicians, journalists and activists from around the world yesterday rejected the coup against Venezuela following the victory of Nicolás Maduro. Among the signatories are the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, and the former presidents of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and Bolivia, Evo Morales.

The signatories, in solidarity with the Bolivarian revolution, declared in a statement that after the presidential election of July 28, which consecrated the victory of Nicolás Maduro for a third term, escalated a destabilizing operation of imperialism.

The onslaught, they denounced, was planned and put into action, before, during and after the electionsto which more than 21.3 million Venezuelans were invited.

They said that the acts of violence and vandalism seen on television and social media showed that the accusations of fraud against the Maduro government and the National Electoral Council They are the surface of a vast destabilizing plan.

Risk of foreign military intervention

They also stated that it would ultimately have the objective of justifying, even a foreign military intervention.

They called on the international community to denounce, repudiate and strongly reject the coup attempts against the sister Bolivarian Republic.

The declaration was also signed by the president of Casa de las Américas in Cuba, Abel Prieto, the former Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patiño, the president of the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry in Cuba, Alexis Triana; the former president of the National Assembly of Ecuador, Gabriela Rivadaneira, and the Mexican federal deputy Yeidckol Polevnsky.

The statement was also signed by Cuban National Assembly member Mariela Castro, former president of the Bolivian Senate Adriana Salvatierra, Argentine sociologist and writer Atilio Borón, as well as the ambassador for Palestinian refugees, Aleida Guevara.

MEP Manu Pineda, Al Mayadeen TV’s Latin American director Wafica Ibrahim (Lebanon), and the heroes of the Republic of Cuba: Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and René González, among others.