Amid tensions following the US attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, the Extraordinary Summit of CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) underway. teleSUR
00:00Let's now go live back to the CELAC Extraordinary Summit that is taking place virtually.
00:05The Foreign Minister of Cuba is offering statements. Let's listen.
00:09The vile and delictive aggression of the United States against civilian installations and military ones
00:17in Caracas and other cities of Venezuela
00:21and the kidnapping of the legitimate and constitutional president of Venezuela,
00:30Nicolas Melromoros, and of Celia Flores,
00:35both constitute acts of aggression and breaking the peace acts of terrorism of state
00:44that flagrantly violate the purposes and principles consecrated in the UN Charter and international law,
00:55especially the sovereignty and the integrity of the territory of Venezuela,
01:01the right of the Venezuelan people to their free determination without foreign interference.
01:14It is imperative, legally and politically and ethical as well,
01:22to reclaim immediately verifiable guarantees of the integrity and security
01:31of the president Nicolas Melromoros and his wife
01:35and demand their liberation unconditionally and immediate.
01:44I remember the form of unity that was done in February of 2010
01:53to give origin to CELAC on the base of the Summit of Integration and Development on the Rio Group,
02:05and I remember as well the Summit in Caracas of CELAC of December of 2011
02:13that gave step to the next Summit in Santiago of Chile.
02:21The creation of CELAC was the accumulation, the historical accumulation
02:27of national independence and collective ones of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean,
02:37sustained for over 200 years after the independence
02:45that cost so much blood to our peoples,
02:51overcame the colonialism and overcame the conquest
02:55and the extermination of the original cultures.
02:59After that, we adopted in January of 2014 the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean
03:10as a zone of peace, as a commitment, a historical and solemn compromise
03:17that consequences the giving up to the use of force and gives privilege
03:24to the peaceful solution of controversies as an unbreakable rule.
03:30The proclamation establishes principles that are essential,
03:36that have a base in the foundation of all of our nations
03:41and in the collective collections in relationship to the preservation
03:47of the independence and the national sovereignty.
03:51It includes as well elements of international law
03:58that are essential and complement the development.
04:03It not only puts the commitment of the country
04:07that integrates the family of the community of Latin American states
04:10and Caribbean states as well
04:12to try and treat ourselves between ourselves on the basis that it establishes
04:19but it also raises with absolute dignity and legitimacy
04:26the claim that our region and the nations that are integrated
04:31to be treated as such by any actor or international counterpart.
04:38The actions that have happened in the last months
04:43but particularly in the tragic early hours of the day January the 3rd
04:52we give birth again under more brutal ways and more bold and open ways
05:00proclaiming the intentions of direct domination through the use of military force of the United States.
05:11It re-establishes the policies that took to the bloody military interventions of the U.S.
05:30against Latin American nations and Caribbean nations
05:34and that also lead to the promotion and the sustaining of the cruelest dictatorships
05:44military dictatorships in our region
05:47and actions integrated of terrorism of state as the history of the country plan
05:59and actions of terrorism and of extermination of populations of political forces in our region.
06:09The aggression that happens today directly against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
06:18has to be necessarily assumed by our collective of nations
06:25as an aggression against the group of the nations that integrate our community.
06:36The historical collection built throughout centuries that has brought us here
06:48reclaims that facing this dilemma, this existential dilemma for our peoples, for our nations and our cultures
06:59or even our national states or its ways of cooperation and integration
07:07need to be necessarily defended.
07:12I want to quote San Martin when he said that to defend the cause of independence
07:19it is not needed anything else but national pride.
07:25He said to defend the freedom it is needed citizens not of coffee but of instruction and elevation and moral elevation.
07:37Sucre said and I quote no message more nice for an American that those who objectivists should
07:53increase the relationships with other peoples that like slavery are called by nature to identify their cause, their independence, their glory.
08:08The hero Bernardo Higgins wrote after so many battles and of so happy and glorious efforts
08:21before the sun stops shining on us forever to consent to establish in America a center, a crown or a new crown I would say.
08:35Cuba rejects the brutal intention of reimposing through military force the Monroe Doctrine and even worse the
08:50consecration in the recent doctrine of national security of the United States what some analysts call the corollary trump or even the fact that this
09:04that this has he has used the formulation of the doctrine or the corollary to publicly declared that he has overcome with the recent actions in particular with this last one the the various influences and sense of the Monroe Doctrine of the manifested destiny of the
09:34of the policy of the policy of canyons. Cuba rejects the attempt of imposing instruments of domination that try that treat our burgers as a sphere of influence or that that is called openly as the backyard.
09:57America and America and the caribbean is not a territory in dispute and it does not belong to anyone else than to the peoples of each one of the countries.
10:12One would have to ask myself what does President Trump make reference to when he says that he's going to govern Venezuela. He's going to
10:25to reconquering what he calls reconquering with no recollection of history the hydrocarbon resources of Venezuela. Does he mean that the U.S. from now on will take the right of military acting?
10:43Over his traditions of exploitation of exploitation and looting and imposition of his interests against our natural resources and the subprimation of the subprimation of the United States.
10:50Does he mean that the U.S. does it mean that the U.S. is willing to enforce the rights of the United States and the United States and the United States and the United States and the United States and the United States?
10:57For its traditions of exploitation and looting and imposition of its interests against our
11:10natural resources and the sovereign use of these, does it mean that the US is willing
11:19to invade military countries, to exploit the copper, to exploit the lithium, to exploit
11:29the petroleum or the gas, to exploit what is called the rare earths?
11:38Does it mean that the US has given itself the right to the use of military force to exploit
11:45its interests in the Amazon against that of our peoples?
11:53Where is the independence of Latin America and the Caribbean going?
11:57What would happen with the sovereignty that resides, that cannot be vended from our peoples,
12:07facing these pretensions that are truly fascist?
12:14The apostle of our independence, the trees have to get in line for the giant of the seven
12:24miles not to pass.
12:26It is the time of the counting and of the march in unity and we must be together as the silver
12:36one.
12:37I consider that the challenge, the essential challenge that is today lived by Latin America and the
12:46Caribbean has a direct impact and constitutes a threat against the collective of our nations.
13:01It is a challenge of an imminent threat that has just proven just barely 48 hours ago for all
13:12and each one of the nations that are independent of Latin America and the Caribbean.
13:20So, it puts us in the existential dilemma determined for our survival as natural, states and independent
13:33nations that are sovereign.
13:35The stomach of these pretensions to persist or continue being implemented against our peoples.
13:48It implicates, in my judgment, the vision that it is an existential threat of a historical character
13:58nature that is done throughout all of the political forces and that's special to all the ideologies
14:05and to all the ways of thinking.
14:09The community of Latin America and Caribbean states must be capable of putting aside our
14:18differences that are of a different nature, that are painful but that obey to causes and
14:28to pretensions and concepts of different content.
14:34And that if we want to be independent, if we want to continue having Latin American cultures
14:41and Caribbean ones, if we want to continue having national states that are independent, if
14:47we want to have a minimum of sovereign equality in the middle of this agitated disorder that is international,
14:59we must have in a collective way and united on the base of this essence that are cultural and historical, more than political or ideological, that are deeply ethical, that are in the national being of each one of our peoples and that are part of our national identity and of our Latin American identity and Caribbean identity.
15:28As well, everything is in danger.
15:33If the imperialist and fascist government of the United States would be able to intrigue and divide as heat as it has tried historically to do with our natures, if they manage to break the unity that is essential of our cultures and of our senses of independence.
15:56The consequences would be unmeasurable and the historical setback would be of centuries.
16:08We consider it urgent to mobilize the diplomatic efforts and political efforts as well in our region and in the planet to demand respect to the constitutional order of Venezuela.
16:22Venezuela, the liberation immediate and unconditional of its president and the respect to the authorities, the legitimately constituted authorities.
16:34And the force is our duty to carry out this denunciation with the moral strength and the value that has distinguished the liberating sides of our region to all the international and multilateral centers and in particular to all the international and multilateral centers.
16:59And in particular to the United Nations would have to reclaim the taking of responsibility of the responsible of these aggressions and of the deaths that have been produced and the crimes that were done against the president of a sovereign state.
17:20It will also need to be stopped to preserve our clearest objectives of the nation that the acts committed in this time are not left in impunity but especially the acts that happened on January 3rd.
17:38Let's not allow that the force and barbarism prevail over international law or that the sovereignty of a brother people founder of freedom of Latin America and the Caribbean the land of the liberators be sacrificed.
18:01Let's defend the rights of the rights of the Venezuelan families.
18:08Let's stop the war.
18:10Let's stop the war.
18:11Let's stop the harassing.
18:14Let's act with the firmness and the determination that these circumstances demand.
18:20We would not run the risk that the prudence is perceived as a weakness on part of a predator government as the one of the current government in the United States.
18:40Whatever is done today will be decisive for the future generations.
18:47The way in which today we act will be probably followed with admiration by the future generations or it will be judged with extreme severity by the history and by our peoples.
19:03I would have loved for this intervention to be public.
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