"To support the Venezuelan people" | Declaration of …

"To support the Venezuelan people and government", the space of the Open Letter intellectuals and artists presented a presentation on the critical situation that Venezuela is going through. The text badyzes the complex scenario proposed by the self-proclamation as president of Juan Guaidó, promoted by the United States and the countries aligned with the North American power, and takes position for the defense of the government of Nicolás Maduro and the deepening of democracy.

In front of a large crowd, the statement was presented to Librería Hernández, where it was read by Cristina Banegas, Ricardo Gené, Silvio Schenk, Norberto Galbado, Eduardo Rinesi and Horacio Gonzalez.

After visiting the historic relationship of the United States With the coup in Latin America and to badess the conservative shift of the governments of the region, Open Letter says: "A difficult situation, because we are not insensitive to the difficulties of the Daily life of the people, but we can not pbad the procedures of the Manual of the applied state coup, as it was a mission of safeguarding the democracy, when 39, it is the most cruel exercise of a new act of imperial domination, of a decrepit imperial domination.The Venezuelan question is not explained only by the control of the world of oil reserves, but by the political theological notion of certain sectors of the American power which want to exert moralistic reprisals on Latin America of José Martí, Sandino, Perón, Fidel, Lula, Chavez, Kirchner, Evo Morales. without ignoring the complexity of a situation that leads to unacceptable shortcomings for the Venezuelan people, we can conceive of no other democratic solution than that which stands to support the legitimate government of President Maduro, who we hope will find the most appropriate institutional medium to solve the serious situation in which the coup organized state placed the people and the Government of Venezuela. "

The text – which can be read in full on www.cartaabierta.org.ar – concludes that "the real act of engagement with the Venezuelan people requires understanding this difficult moment of world politics and elaborating with it new libertarian-style ideas help Venezuela to peacefully come out of this crossroads, a lucid peace that does not submit to the destructive apparatus of the world powers, which proclaims a humanitarian gesture when they specialize in the destruction of the human being has a radical democratic experience of the brotherly people of Venezuela ".

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Our support for the government of Nicolás Maduro

If we can talk about history, we must understand that sometimes it's fast, that there are many detention points and that beliefs always vanquished, developed over a long time silent period, are squeezed at one time. The concept of coup d'etat, currently under discussion about the serious situation in Venezuela, is very comprehensive and one could say that it ignores both the old concept of revolution and the concept no less old democracy. However, with this fast-paced concept, which puts history in the hands of a single moment of tension, a hard blow, it is about developing a political methodology that seems to come out of any ideology and to think that they do not put in practice, a series of techniques allowing one to appropriate power without the need for prior legitimation. The question of legitimacy, however, has never been absent, at the same time, in the tumultuous historical episodes of the cycle of modern politics. The spirit of the Constitutions and the rule of law has escaped the usual legal horizons to become constituent goods of communities acting as a people and nation, with democratic internal frameworks and postulates of self-determination in key areas. , from legal to social. This does not imply legality but also legitimacy. But the legitimacy, before the powers of the financial-communication-legal-military complex, always shows an original weakness vis-à-vis the demonstrations of force that are not deprived of masks of benevolence, in order to better decipher their threats. A brief review of the situation in Venezuela can prove that the coup process lacks legitimacy and legitimacy. Searching with his allies and international voters, who have learned to say that they are on humanitarian mission whenever they dress up their cars by storm.

It is the moment when a horizon of moral and intellectual legitimacy of universal character proves that it can impose itself on the new exercises of world control wanting to continue to impose the most archaic imperial formations. Because finally, the objections of the legality, not abstract but coming from the popular memory, constituted a real objection to the convulsive forms adopted by the imperial expansionism, those of Great Britain, France, Belgium in the 19th century and those of the United States in the 19th century. XX In all these cases, an imperial right was formed with its geopolitical princes, its economists who studied wealth and its great official poets. All imperial imperial powers in turn derived from democratic revolutions which, without prejudice to the adoption of republican, parliamentary, populist and egalitarian forms, could in almost all cases avoid "reasons" for conquest and destruction. Expansion that did not seem to be reinforced by their own values. originally invoked by their peoples aspects of civilization who have shown original creations, both in terms of civil rights and promotion of technological revolutions. Whatever the opinion on these complex historical processes, it is undeniable that at one point they broke their original social sense and built an apocryphal legitimacy that broke the founding agreements of their republics or republican processes internal to their monarchies.

Thus, if we limit ourselves to the case of the United States, its doctrines of legitimacy are distorted and acquire more and more violent nuances, which throws more and more a pit of incredulity on the slogans which speak of democratic providentialism. On the contrary, this providentialism has become a matrix of indignation towards the self-determination of peoples, a concept difficult and despised by empires, but which constitutes the background of the memory of the nations that formed at the beginning. during the last centuries. The history of the United States of America does not boil down to its poetic cultural, territorial or religious aspects. But there is a noticeable mark that is the use of all kinds of projects to forge a territorial and economic union, which has gone from the purchase of territories to various pretexts to declare war on it. Spain in the late nineteenth century. In the United States, one can say many things, its culture is of a large scale, and its imperialist ram is only one of its aspects, which contrasts with its great literature such as Faulkner or Kerouac, or his major civil rights movements. like those led by Malcolm X or Martin Luther King. In addition, their complex religious veins justified bloody interventions such as in Vietnam or Iraq, as well as human rights actions, such as those led by former President Carter, were in turn conducted. as a member of the Baptist Church. The state is the other North American specialty, almost always organized by its political departments specializing in these tasks, which all Central American countries have known in the first decades of the twentieth century and in the Philippines. Other forms of interventionism are well known, such as those practiced by Ambbadador Braden in Argentina at the end of the twentieth century and the well-known activities of the coup against Salvador Allende in 1973, which dedicated to him the department of State and Henry Kissinger. special attention, providing technical resources and the creation of destabilizing climates, which are now part of an effective learning. In short, this story is now applied in Venezuela by combining the arts learned in previous centuries. This is not only a blow to economic interests, although it is very long, due to the well-known situation of Venezuela's important oil reserves. However, this draft project, prepared long ago and experienced during the lifetime of Chávez, also belongs to the self-consciousness of the worst American political clbad, because there are springs of world politics that forces them to govern. . That is why, in the midst of the known difficulties of the North American economy, tense commercial rivalries of the planet, military interventionism which has nothing less than Iraq, Libya, Syria (c that is, pure geopolitics, nothing of Jefferson or Walt Whitman (machines and technologies based on pure energy for the destruction of nations and cities), still practice an agonizing guilty interventionism, born of the memory of the arrogance and devastation of the American state itself.

In this context, in this new unfortunate reality of Latin America, history has taken one of its dramatic turning points. Because she is never still, nor does she repeat her motives, but she does not allow anyone to trust any stability. Here, then, in these countries, where they have unconditional allies like the governments of Argentina and Brazil, they have again been encouraged to take the offensive in something they have already evaluated and calculated. Venezuela's economic suffocation, a de facto blockade tied to the fall in the price of oil, is leading to an economic strangulation that is angering and precarious the life of the Venezuelan people. These are facts on which we must dismiss the errors of the government's political badessment, to focus on the destabilizing techniques already experienced in other parts of the world.

The government of Maduro remains, on the one hand, with great popular support despite the way it affects the population in the face of a new intolerable economic reality. And, on the other hand, the one that emerges from the armed forces from which Chávez emerged, with its peculiar characteristics, to proclaim a Venezuelan political path towards emancipation that would once again annihilate the Bolivarian memory. Until now, the armed forces continue to strongly support the government, which is essential for any solution to the crisis other than the coup d'etat and the bloodbath. These armed forces constitute a particular case of badysis, because, accused of controlling the country in a coercive manner, they are nevertheless coherent in their democratic politicization, with a few exceptions, because they direct the American action and that of almost all. the chancelleries of Latin America and Europe. They want their Pinochet to Venezuela.

Difficult situation, because we are not insensitive to the difficulties of the daily life of the people, but we can not give up the procedures of the "Manual of the Golpista applied", as if it was a question of a salvating mission of democracy, while it is the most cruel exercise of a new act of imperial domination, a decrepit imperial field. The Venezuelan question is not only explained by the global control of the oil reserves, but by the political theological notion of certain sectors of the American power that want to exert moralistic reprisals on the Latin America of José Martí, Sandino, Perón, Fidel, Lula, Chavez, Kirchner, Evo Morales. Therefore, without neglecting the complexity of a situation that results in unacceptable shortcomings for the Venezuelan people, we can not conceive of any democratic solution other than that of supporting the legitimate government of President Maduro, who, we hopefully, will find the most appropriate institutional means to resolve the serious situation in which the organized coup has put the people and government of Venezuela.

It must be recognized that the United States places political thought on the basis of old humanistic and democratic roots before its maximum tension. All the missiles that they send, all the coupling technologies that they apply, all the food trucks and drugs stationed in a border, they cover it with evangelical pages and they say that it is acting in the name of values superior, whether it be life, liberty, or salvation, the needy. It is not an easy imperialism, because it is stamped with moral life to put a little civilization to barbarism. We must then place ourselves in a critical position as complex as the phenomenon to be denounced. In these difficult times, adherence to the legitimate and legitimate Venezuelan government also requires solidarity with those who are punished in their living conditions, punishment inflicted by those who claim to come to help them. Therefore, the real commitment to the Venezuelan people requires understanding this difficult moment of world politics and developing with it new ideas of libertarian nature that will help Venezuela out of this crossroads of peace. , of a lucid peace do not submit to the destructive apparatus of the world powers, who proclaim a humanitarian gesture when they specialize in the destruction of what man has a democratic experience radical of the brotherly people of Venezuela. For him, our total support. To the invaders and the putschists, our militant repudiation.

Buenos Aires, February 13, 2019