Venezuela hosts from Monday to Wednesday the International Summit against Fascismin which, according to the authorities, “about 200 guests from 52 countries” participate, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the coup against Hugo Chávez, on April 11, 2002.
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At the inauguration of the conclave, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Félix Plasencia, explained that, during these three days, attendees will celebrate “the people’s rejection” of the attempt to remove Chavez from power.
“We are going to celebrate the rejection of the people who decided that there was no room to frustrate or extirpate a political project that was born and was committed to dignifying the lives of Venezuelans,” Plasencia said, according to a statement released by the Foreign Ministry.
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The official stressed that, 20 years ago, “a shameful, treacherous coup d’état took place against a proposal that settled the historical debt of the damage done to the majority of Venezuelans, who had been deprived of their rights to a life harmonious, happy, peaceful and dignified”.
Plasencia was accompanied at the installation of the event by the Brazilian sociologist and researcher Sabrina da Fonseca Borges, the mayor of the Recoleta district of Santiago de Chile, Daniel Jadue, and the American politician Eugene Puryear.
In his speech, Fonseca Borges, who described the Brazilian government, chaired by Jair Bolsonaro, as “fascist”, explained that the president’s management of the pandemic “has resulted in more than 600,000 deaths, growth in violence and the famine, and destruction of nature”.
For its part, Jadue congratulated the Venezuelan people for “all the years of resistance” in which “it has been able to overcome international pressure and foreign interventionism that has been brutal”referring to the sanctions of the United States and other nations on Venezuela.
Finally, Puryear, leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the United States, explained that there is “a particular variant of fascism that is imprinted in the political culture” of his country and that goes to “the roots of the ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples, the imprisonment of Africans, the religious fervor that anti-communists have.
He explained that the “new war mentality” of the United States against Russia and China responds to “an ideological construction of fascism”, which he related to the position of considering itself “the best of all the countries in the world and wanting to maintain that supremacy at all costs.” “.
The summit is scheduled to conclude on Wednesday, April 13, the date on which Venezuelans remember Chavez’s return to the presidency, after the coup two days earlier.
EFE
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