The Venezuelan president denounced before the participants of the Antifascist Parliamentary Forum that imperialism is trying to impose a fascist model through political figures. Photo: Presidential Press
 

Caracas, November 5 (RHC)-- The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, warned this Monday that there is an attempt to impose a fascist model in Latin America and stated that 19 years ago, “the FTAA agreements that were being discussed globally would have meant the absolute destruction of the economic apparatus of the entire continent,” on the occasion of the anniversary of the fall of the Free Trade Area of ​​the Americas (FTAA).

“If the ALCA model was a neocolonial model, from an economic point of view, the model that Javier Milei -Argentine president-, Daniel Noboa -Ecuadorian president-, and the model that the empire has for the world, and that they intend to impose with a coup d'état in Venezuela, and that they intend to impose with destabilization in Venezuela, which no one doubts, is a fascist model; for this historical time the strength of the people, I have no doubt, will prevail,” he said in a message addressed to social movements and the Argentine Workers' Central (CTA).

The Venezuelan president denounced before the participants of the Antifascist Parliamentary Forum that imperialism is trying to impose a fascist model through political figures, seeking to cause destabilization in the region, but he affirmed that the strength of the people will prevail.

He also highlighted that Caracas, Venezuela, is the “capital of rebellion and struggle,” and Néstor Kirchner’s Argentina was the epicenter of an historic battle.

“Argentina with Néstor Kirchner at the helm was the epicenter of an historic battle on the path to independence in our America. It is an effort that must be maintained with the same intensity with which we obtained that great victory 19 years ago,” he said.

In this sense, the head of State called for the continuation of the struggle for solidarity and self-determination of the peoples and recalled the Summit of the Americas in 2005, which was attended by Commander Hugo Chávez.

“The Giant Hugo Chávez, our father, our teacher, father and teacher of several generations of rebels and revolutionaries of Latin America and the Caribbean, of our America and the world,” he said.

The Venezuelan president said that the FTAA “signified a point of arrival and a starting point.  A point of arrival of the struggle that we waged as the working class, popular movements, against neoliberalism.”

He also denounced that the attacks on Latin America began when the United States brought neoliberalism with the coups d'état of Videla, Pinochet, Bordaberry.  “It was the great test for them in South America, to sink their deep claws of economic domination of political, cultural and general hegemony of a model, without a doubt, neocolonial,” he said.

The Venezuelan leader also recalled that imperialism uses words associated with freedom to mask the truth about domination, which is why he described the FTAA as “a threat of accelerated colonization from the economy to politics and culture.”

Maduro also recalled the importance of the summit where Commander Chavez and Nestor Kirchner joined forces to confront the neocolonial model promoted by the FTAA, and sent a message of support to the social movements in Argentina.

“My greetings to the social movements of Argentina.  Argentina standing up, Argentina in battle.  Here is Venezuela.  We are here standing up, whole, complete, victorious and in battle for the rest of the 21st century.  We will be free, the rest does not matter,” he said.