The speech of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro this Wednesday, at the 73rd session of the United Nations, in New York, stoked the historical confrontation of the “Big Homeland” and “Monroe” doctrines, in the opinion of the Minister for Education, Aristóbulo Istúriz:
“President Maduro expressed the historical continuity of what our creators have been, from the aborigines, the Aboriginal and Afro-Venezuelan resistance, and at the same time the struggle for independence and of what our people are. Maduro gave an example of dignity”.
“There was the presence, the spirit, of the Liberator Simón Bolívar confronted with Monroe”, nodded Istúriz during the “Dando y Dando-Radio” (Taking and Giving-Radio) program, which he leads along with journalist Tania Díaz, through the signal of the RNV Informative channel.
The Monroe doctrine, synthesized in the phrase “America for the Americans,” and attributed to President James Monroe, who in 1823 issued a warning to all the extra-continental powers that stepped on the American continent, is based on the belief that all American continent belonged to them.
Moved by this doctrine (as Istúriz continued pointing out), President Donald Trump “considers that this continent belongs to him and anyone who does not take responsibility for his interests is going out of bounds, must be punished and apply force unto”.
