Dominican collectives oppose the Presidents visit from Colombia

Dominican collectives oppose the President’s visit. from Colombia

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Political organizations and social movements in the Dominican Republic expressed their solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela and condemned the false accusations made by Colombian President Iván Duque during a speech to the Congress of the Caribbean country he visited last week against these two nations had raised to condition.

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The groups sent a protest note to the Colombian ambassador in Quisqueya, Daniel Cabrales Castillo, this Sunday, assuring that Duque’s attack on Havana and Caracas violated the principle of not interfering in the affairs of other states, right international and the Dominican Constitution itself.

They claimed that Duque, who is considered persona non grata by Dominican people, played his role as “may loyal” to the White House and did not speak out about the inhumane restrictive measures being taken by the United States and complicit countries like Colombia proceed Cuba and Venezuela.

They declared that the President, whom they called “the ward of paramilitarism leader Álvaro Uribe,” would never acknowledge that despite the US economic, trade and financial blockade, which is viewed as a crime against humanity, the Fund of the United Nations for Children (UNICEF) declared Cuba free from malnutrition, while the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recognized that nation and Venezuela for zero hunger eradication.

They pointed out that it did not compare the 8,522 deaths from Covid-19 in Cuba and the 5,705 in Venezuela with the nearly 140,000 deaths from Covid-19 that occurred in Colombia “due to its social irresponsibility and non-functioning health system”.

They pointed out that Cuba was the only Latin American country to have developed five anti-Covid vaccine candidates, including three vaccines, immunized its entire population and dispatched health specialists to other countries to deal with the pandemic.

They criticized Duque for not mentioning that more than five million Colombians live in Venezuela, where “they have their homes, enjoy free health services, education, electricity and fuel at low prices, and subsidized food.”

They added that the Colombian president’s double standard does not allow him to inform Dominican congressmen that he trained mercenaries on Colombian territory to invade Venezuela, nor that Colombian mercenaries were involved in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

They censored the fact that Duque used the Dominican Republic to promote International Monetary Fund (IMF) recipes, while ignoring that the Colombian people took to the streets during the national strike against neoliberalism and that the Colombian oppressive forces caused 83 murders . Disappearances, torture and thousands of detainees.

For these and other reasons, they called Duque’s stance an insult “to the more than 1,175 victims murdered during his nefarious government in Colombia” and to the “7.3 million Colombians who are food insecure and will need food assistance in 2022”. . to the FAO.

The signers of the protest also condemned his honorable reception by the Presidency of the Republic and the support given by the Dominican Congress to “a genocidal, lying and anti-democratic ruler”.

The text was signed by: Caamañista Movement (MC), Narciso Isa Conde / Communist Labor Party (PCT), Manuel Salazar (General Sec.) / Homeland Movement for All (MPT) / Dominican Popular Movement (MPD) / Boschista Force / Rebel Movement (MR) / Solidarity Agenda / Dominican Human Rights Committee (CDDH).

Also Afro-Dominican Action / Feminist Left Coordination / Revolutionary Left (IR) / United Left Movement (MIU) / Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) / Mocano Movement of Solidarity with the Peoples / Force of Revolution (FR ) / Gentío for Political and Social Change / Dominican Solidarity Campaign with Cuba, INC. / Patriotic Committee “Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deño”