Venezuela hosts the International Summit Against Fascism from Monday to Wednesdaywhich, according to the authorities, was attended by “about 200 guests from 52 countries” to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the coup against Hugo Chávez on April 11, 2002.
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At the opening of the conclave, Foreign Minister Félix Plasencia stated that during these three days attendees will celebrate the “rejection of the people” of the attempt to remove Chávez from power.
“We will celebrate the rejection of the people who have decided that there is no room to thwart or eradicate a political project that was born and dedicated to the dignity of life for Venezuelans,” Plasencia said, according to a statement released by 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 historic debt of the damage done to the majority of Venezuelans, who had been deprived of their rights to live harmoniously, happily, peacefully and dignified”.
Plasencia was joined in setting up the event by Brazilian sociologist and researcher Sabrina da Fonseca Borges, Mayor of the Recoleta district of Santiago de Chile, Daniel Jadue, and American politician Eugene Puryear.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Felix Plasencia.
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Yuri KOCHETKOV / POOL / AFP
In his speech, Fonseca Borges, who described the Brazilian government chaired by Jair Bolsonaro as “fascist”, stated that the president’s management of the pandemic “has resulted in more than 600,000 deaths, increasing violence and famine and destruction of nature”.
For his part Jadue congratulated the Venezuelan people for “all the years of resistance” during which “it managed to overcome international pressure and brutal foreign interventionism.”referring to the sanctions imposed by the United States and other nations on Venezuela.
In conclusion, Puryear, leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the United States, stated 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 ethnic cleansing” of indigenous peoples, the imprisonment of Africans, the religious zeal of anti-communists.
He explained that the United States’ “new war mentality” against Russia and China responded to “an ideological construction of fascism” which he associated with a position of considering itself “the best of all countries in the world and claiming to be want”. this supremacy at all costs.” “.
The summit is scheduled to end on Wednesday, April 13, the day Venezuelans remember Chávez’s return to the presidency after the coup two days earlier.
EFE
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