Who has said that Venezuela does not concern us?

Written by Nasser Kandil,

A cold war takes place as the volcanoes of the Latin America from time to time; so the Venezuelan society is dividing clearly into two camps: one includes the capital, the right, and the liberal elites, and the other includes the majority of the middle class and based on the popular and poor classes, the left, and the educated elites that grew up on the thought of the national independence and refusing the American hegemony. Our mission is not to simplify the crisis and to show it mere a conspiracy. The conspiracy means an existing war plan which without it the crisis did not grow, as it does not benefit to show it internationally and locally as mere a confrontation between the democracy advocates and its opponents, it is a crisis of major options that struggle in the Latin America including Venezuela which carried the flag and led  the historic transition in the continent towards the national independence, and the economy which based on the central role of the country in managing the oil sectors, securing the guarantees and the main services for the poor classes.

The struggle in Venezuela is neither new nor includes the whole continent. The Bolivarian movement is like the Sandinista is not imported from the outside. Neither the capitalist class, nor the right forces, nor the American influence by the geographical presence, nor the Zionist influence by the effect of the historic relationships, the demographic presence, and the media and cultural effect are marginal. It is certain that what has been achieved by the figure of the historic leader; the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was surplus to the American endurance, and impressive in terms of achievement. The expectation in the last years of his presidential era was that the internal and the external opponents resort to invest his departure to organize a counter-attack. It was normal that the arrival of a president and an administration that believe in the extremism to the White House gave a sign to begin this counter-revolution.

The alliance which waged the war on Syria is the same which is waging now its war on Venezuela. In both cases it based on dependent structures in the society that attract the marginalized and the slum dwellers, it gets the strength by the money of the Gulf and the Israeli intelligence as well as the weight of the American pressure. In its positions defending the right, Venezuela went far, that the parties of this alliance cannot tolerate it, while the Arab rulers were asking the Israeli leaderships in the war of July 2006 and the war of Gaza 2008 for more killing, devastation, and destruction along with some Lebanese, hoping to break the resistance. Venezuela tried to expel the Israeli ambassador and to announce its firm support to Lebanon, Palestine, their resistances and their peoples. On the day of the war on Syria Venezuela did not hesitate to announce its crucial and decisive position. Just for that we cannot forget these positions and not to exchange them with the same through the announcing to stand with Venezuela and the leadership of the President Maduro.

The presence of a group of the Venezuelan society that is similar to our does not change the fact. The team of the fourteenth of March is neither a Lebanese made nor a Lebanese registered brand; it is an example of Washington’s followers and who are not ashamed of the violation of the independence of their homelands, they just concern about the profits of banks and the foreign agencies more than the national dignity, do not feel embarrassed if the people go to streets, and do not feel ashamed if their positions meet the Israelis, or if they wage a war of sovereignty under the photo of the Saudi King or to have a banquet at the American Embassy, or to boast of a democratic revolution from Gulf capital that does not know neither the constitution nor the elections. A similar to it has led the devastation of Syria; a similar to it is trying to take Venezuela to the civil war. The US President won the presidency by an electoral game; the investigation is still ongoing about the degree of its fairness, since the ceiling of the difference is few votes and part of one percent.

Venezuela concerns us so much, it has preceded us by saying you are not alone at a fatal harsh moment, so the less fulfillment is to say you are not alone at a similar moment.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,