“There is now an attempt to fester a conflict, an escalating conflict to destabilize Venezuela, to destabilize the Caribbean and to talk about destabilizing Venezuela and destabilizing the Caribbean is destabilizing all of Latin America as a whole.”
The denounce corresponds to the Venezuelan Head of State and Government, Nicolás Maduro Moros, highlighting the tireless permanent dialogue that he has maintained to defend the “historical, legal, political, diplomatic truth of our country.”
Likewise, he reiterated that despite the circumstances that seek divisions, the objective is to achieve solutions, a characteristic characteristic of the Venezuelan Government, since “we have sought in good faith satisfactory, friendly, diplomatic solutions, solutions based in the law, the Bolivarian Peace Diplomacy.” he explained.
President Maduro from the facilities of the Teresa Carreño Theater, during his presentation, explained a first historical moment about the national territory, which is “from the very arrival of the European invaders, the invaders of Spain who took possession of an entire continent, (on) 1492 the first ships arrive (…), it is in 1494 that the invasion of our America was just beginning, when the treaty of Tordecillas was signed.
Maduro revealed that in this treaty, signed by the empires Spain and Portugal, lands and seas were divided, as well as “Portugal acknoeldged most of the American territory to Spain, including the territories of the Guayanas, the territory of South America.”
With this event we find the “first element that appears in the firmament of the historical record: The occupation by Spain of a good part of this territory, granted in a distribution of empires that sought and imposed the thesis of discovery,” he stated, after defend the thesis that a civilization already existed here that was stripped.
“Who discovered who? Or is it that we were not already here? Our grandfathers and grandmothers were living in peace, developing their civilization, their culture, their life,” he stressed.
Detailing that by 1627 “the Dutch had already established hostile settlements against Spain on the eastern bank of the famous Essequibo River,” he showed the Munsters treaty signed on 1648, which once again demonstrates the territory’s more remote antecedents.
