Caracas.- The National Assembly (Parliament) today called a consultative referendum to allow the people to decide on Venezuela’s inalienable rights in the territory of Essequibo, which is in dispute with neighboring Guyana.
The President of the Legislature, Jorge Rodríguez, introduced the proposal by emergency motion and received the unanimous support of parliamentarians, who also approved an agreement that rejected the statements of the United States, considering them a blatant attack on the rights of Venezuela in the matter. Territory.
Rodríguez explained that this consultation mechanism is provided for in Article 71 of the Constitution and is intended to ensure that the Venezuelan people, through direct and secret voting, make decisions and strengthen the inalienable rights over the territory of Guayana Esequiba.
Furthermore, history and law confirm that this region of the country “is an indissoluble part of the sacred ground of the country.”
The Venezuelan Parliament, with two thirds of the votes of the deputies, calls for a consultative referendum so that all people, men and women, have their say and the Bolivarian Republic says: “This is my indissoluble territory,” emphasized the deputy.
During his speech, the owner recalled that no power had given independence to his country, which lost half of its population in the fight against the Spanish Empire.
There are other countries that “graciously granted independence.” It was not Venezuela that shed the blood of its children against the most powerful empire at the time, he explained.
We must insist, he stressed, that those who serve as world police and seek to keep the planet’s governments and countries on their knees review “our glorious and recent history.”
He pointed out that Donald Trump (2017-2012) attempted the most serious attack on a country on this continent in the last 50 years and was completely defeated, and that (Barack) Obama (2009-2017) issued an infamous decree proclaiming a republic issued Bolivarian “unusual and exceptional threat”.
The day before, several authorities in the Venezuelan government rejected the statements on the social network
“We call on Venezuela to respect international law, including the 1899 arbitration award and the ongoing International Court of Justice case between Caracas and Georgetown,” the U.S. official wrote.
Rest assured that the truth will prevail over these disgusting allegations and that (Simón) Bolívar’s Venezuela will prevail!, stressed the President, referring to the tenders promoted by the Government of Guyana for oil blocks in areas involved in the historic dispute over the Essequibo be considered.