A-Infos (en) A PUBLIC STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN VENEZUELA FROM CHILEAN PERIÓDICO SOLIDARIDAD ANARCHISTS (ca)

The following is a statement on the current political crisis and U.S. backed coup underway 
in Venezuela produced by Solidaridad, a libertarian communist political organization in 
Chile. In the coming days we will be publishing an additional statement written jointly by 
anarchist groups in Brazil and Uraguay. For additional analysis we recommend our archive 
of articles and statements on Venezuela. ---- Translation by Francisco C., Black Rose/Rosa 
Negra. ---- A Public Statement on the Situation in Venezuela ---- Venezuela is going 
through a profound crisis of which it is impossible to exempt the responsibility of the 
leadership of Chavismo: the failure in opening a path that allows the country to overcome 
the dependence of oil, the inefficiency in implementing measures that better the economic 
situation of the country, the bureaucracy that is drowning the popular initiative and the 
cases of corruption that affect officials who move key aspects of the economy. These are 
some of the unresolved problems.

Nevertheless, this situation is within the framework of a polarization and conflict of 
classes where the Venezuelan right-wing, the loyal representative of the well-off sectors 
in the country in conjunction with diverse administrations from the U.S. government, has 
unfolded a destabilizing strategy intended to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy 
contributing to the deterioration to the living conditions of millions of people. The 
objective of this effort is to undermine the popular support that has mainly sustained the 
process of change in Venezuela.

Even worse, this right-wing, which presents itself as a democratic alternative and which 
hides its despise for the working class behind a false language that appeals to justice 
and respect to a constitution they had once insulted, operates in a criminal manner 
sharpening the levels of violence. Behind the figure of[self-proclaimed interim 
President]Juan Guaidó and the Voluntad Popular or Popular Will party, hiding behind the 
high-flown speeches amplified by the media has been an insurrectionary strategy which 
unfolded with armed attacks on military barracks,[1]destruction of health centers,[2]the 
burning of warehouses with food destined to vulnerable,[3]among other multiple actions of 
sabotage went on during these years. It came to the point where social leaders were being 
killed by hired hitmen[4]and to the burning alive of people simply for being Chavistas.[5]

From what's mentioned above we've learned that if the right gains power in Venezuela 
again, not only will it implement adjustment policies that include privatization of public 
enterprises, massive indebtedness with bodies like the IMF, and the opening of oil 
projects where private companies assume as principal shareholders,[6]but it will also be a 
government of revenge where the hate accumulated during these years will unfold brutally 
against organized sectors of the people who dared to dream of a country that would 
transition to non-capitalist ways of living together.

The realization of a profound balance between Latin American progressives and in 
particular from the Venezuelan experience,even with all its contradictions and potential 
is a pending task for the left. Suffice it to say that many of these experiences have 
given way to political processes that directly harm the working class. Nevertheless, and 
despite the legitimate differences that we openly express with those who lead the 
Venezuelan process, the left and the people have to be emphatic in rejecting this new coup 
attempt - the ominous interference of the U.S and the other countries related to the 
destabilizing strategy which includes the government of[Chilean President Sebastián]Piñera 
and the political sectors who support its foreign policy all the way from Chile. Along 
with this we must demand the governments who quickly squared with the position of the 
United States to respect the rights of the Venezuelan people to its own conflicts without 
the interference of other states establishing as a minimum floor the non-recognition of 
the diplomatic delegations won over by Guaído.

We manifest our solidarity with the people of Venezuela directly from our organization, 
especially with the fringes who even against the grain of the Chavista leadership and 
assuming all the contradictions of the change in process, protagonize[fight for]new 
experiences in building popular power that range from the takeovers of the land, the 
socialization of self-managed companies by its own workers or the government from below in 
rural and urban communities,[7]and obtaining spaces that prefigure the path of the people 
who fight against the ominous consequences of patriarchal capitalism we want to overcome.

Solidaridad, February 2019

Notes
[1] https://www.eltiempo.com/archivo/documento/MAM-53579
[2] 
https://www.hispantv.com/noticias/venezuela/408335/ataque-incendio-hospitales-opositores-violencia
[3] https://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/242996-50-toneladas-alimentos-quemadas-venezuela
[4] 
http://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2018/08/03/asesinados-tres-voceros-de-la-lucha-campesina-en-venezuela/
[5] 
https://red58.org/cr%C3%ADmenes-de-odio-derecha-venezolana-quema-viva-a-personas-en-sus-protestas-923cfc58012c 

[6]https://www.elinformador.com.ve/2019/01/31/descargue-aqui-el-plan-pais-lo-que-viene-para-venezuela/
[7]For an idea about the concrete experiences in building popular power in Venezuela we 
recommend you visit the following article written in 2016 written by two comrades of 
Solidaridad, "Political Situation in Venezuela: Crisis, Trends, and the Challenge of Class 
Independence."

http://blackrosefed.org/venezuela-statement-solidaridad-2019
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