Saharawi Refugee Camp, January 14 (Prensa Latina) A common communication strategy to unite voices in common interests of independence and sovereignty was launched today by Venezuela at the XVI. Polisario Front Congress.
The issue was highlighted this Saturday by Gabriela Peña, MP for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), who used her speech on the second day of conclave sessions to renew her country’s support for the Sahrawi people at critical moments The conflict with Morocco.
In the Wilaya of Dakhla, in the area of the Western Sahara refugee camps on Algerian territory, the South American MP stressed to Prensa Latina that the framework “allows us to confirm that Venezuela supports the cause of this noble, courageous and indomitable people, in their tireless struggle to defend their independence and sovereignty”.
He regretted that, despite this delicate situation, there had been no UN statements on the escalation of the conflict by Morocco with the breach of the ceasefire on November 13, 2020.
Next May, the Polisario will celebrate 50 years of relentless struggle to defend their people against Moroccan occupation. And at this congress, it is already proposed to face this fact through armed struggle, commented Peña.
He recalled that Venezuela continues to be a country attacked by the United States and other powers with more than 700 coercive measures that have affected the economy and social progress in the areas of health and education, “but with an unshakable will to build socialism”.
The MP told Prensa Latina that during the Bicentennial Congress of the Peoples of the World in Caracas in 2019, an agreement was reached to create a communications movement “that will allow us to internationalize the hope and struggle for development with one channel, in which we will be a single voice in the anti-imperialist struggle and also make visible concerns like those of the Sahrawi or Palestinian people”.
In this sense, Peña mentioned the late President Hugo Chávez when he remarked in his Aló Presidente program in 2009 that the struggle of the Sahrawi people “is a Venezuelan cause of the Venezuelan people”, and I am convinced he added that the delegate the event in Dakhla, Latin America and the Caribbean in general will appreciate this solidarity.
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