“The time of American interventionism in the political and social life of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean must be left behind”, said the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, while demanding respect for the Venezuelan people.
The Venezuelan President recalled the aftermath of the US-sponsored invasions and coups d’état in the region, citing a sentence pronounced by the Liberator Simón Bolívar in 1826: “The United States seems destined by providence to plague America of misery in the name of freedom”.
“In the 19th and 20th centuries they invaded Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Panama and Granada. In the name of freedom they imposed Pinochet in Chile and Videla in Argentina; decades and decades of dictatorship, (they) plagued all our people with need, inequality and misery, of open dictatorships and repressive democracies”.
Venezuela, as the President said, is in the sights of US power circles, to possess the largest certified oil reserve in the world, the world’s eighth largest gas reserve, the largest gold reserve under the process of certification, one of the largest reserves of diamond and water on the planet.
During his presentation, titled “Oil and Geopolitics: Causes and Consequences”, in the forum “Russia Energy Week 2017”, he reiterated that the country resumed the path of its independence with Hugo Chavez.
“Venezuela has taken since 1999 its own path of political independence, its own path to building its economic model, its own path of cultural and social identity. We call our path: Bolivarian Revolution, which led and founded our Commander Hugo Chavez until his departure, on March 5, 2013, and which I took from that moment until today”.
