TOWARDS ETHICAL RELATIONS: AGAINST THE STATEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES
14.03.2015 12:47
Due the decree of the government of the United States, March 09th of 2015,
which declares to Venezuela as a threat to its national security, the ecumenical
communities of the Latin American Foundation for Human Rights and Social
Development, FUNDALATIN, the Institute of Human Development and Social
Economy, IDHES, and the National Human Rights Network, REDNADDHH, issued a
message, on March 03th of 2015, in which pose:
Major global powers pretend to keep getting its interests at the expense of the lives of
the majority, and the destruction of the planet. As the Pope Francis says: "The financial
crisis we are experiencing makes us forget that there is a profound anthropological crisis
at its source: ¡the negation of the primacy of the human being! We have created new
idols. Worship of ancient golden calf. (cf. Ex 32.1-35)”. (Pope Francis: The Gospel’s
joy. 2013. In USA we can see racial segregation cases unworthy of a people
that have the legacy of the Prophet of civil rights, Martin Luther King.
Faced with this trend, acts a great movement of communities of diverse spiritual
sources, social movements and responsible governments. In the United States the
SOAW, pose the closing of this training school of repressive dictators in Latin America
and requests the closure of military bases in its country in the world, whose enormous
military expense precludes social attention to their own people, presented by President
Obama.
Moreover, social transformation processes achieved progress recognized by
international organizations such as FAO. In Venezuela, extreme poverty fell from
24.7% in 1998 to 9.3% in 2011. Similar progress have been achieved in countries like
Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Central America and the Caribbean
countries, with momentum to integrating and unity models in diversity as ALBA,
UNASUR, CELAC, and PETROCARIBE. Countries to which the Bolivarian Republic
of Venezuela, since its constitutional process, in 1999, has supported, not with exclusive
criteria of free market and maximum gain, so typical of indifference towards the weak,
but with solidarity, respect for sovereignty, and complementarity.
In the United States, is recognized the support on natural disasters given by the
company CITGO, a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela, to provide the energy source
to affected populations, with a sense of human solidarity. In the current Venezuelan
Constitution, the concept of nation security is expressed as a responsibility of civil and
military sector in terms of human rights and natural resources, with international
solidarity, in order to keep the peace. In this context, what threat could represent the
Venezuelan people to the population of the United States? We urge, in the peace
building process of the Americas, to all social movements, communities of goodwill
and world governments, including the United States, to be vigilant against the threat
posed statement against the legitimate government of the Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela and to achieve international relations with ethical criteria in terms of building
peace, caring for Mother Earth and the social inclusion, to Another World Possible.