The
governing left-wing alliance in Venezuela, known as the Great
Patriotic Pole, denounced a "U.S. re-colonization plan" in
Latin America on Monday. "Faced with this growing
interference, we will not hand over our resources or our nation.
Fascism will never come to Venezuela," ruling Socialist
Party official Blanca Eekhout said at a press conference.
The alliance
has been vociferous in its criticisms of Luis Almagro, secretary
general of the Organization of American States (OAS), for his stance
against Venezuela. Almagro last week called for an urgent meeting of
the organization's permanent council to debate the political
situation in Venezuela and suggested the bloc's Inter-American
Democratic Charter be applied to Caracas. If this is approved in a
meeting, which is set to take place on June 10-20, Venezuela could be
suspended from the OAS.
Eekhout said
the left-wing parties had come together to "prevent" an
eventual "intervention" in the South American nation, and
referred to the fall of left-wing governments in Argentina and Brazil
as an example. Also on Monday, the Venezuelan government condemned
the U.S. State Department for "defamatory statements" made
in its 2015 terrorism report.
In its
Country Reports on Terrorism 2015 released on June 2, the U.S. State
Department accused Venezuela of having the right environment for
terrorist groups to flourish. The groups listed included the
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the National Liberation
Army, which have waged a guerrilla warfare in Colombia for decades
while allegedly operating from bases within Venezuela. The U.S.
report also accused Venezuela of helping sympathizers of the Basque
group ETA and the Lebanese Islamic group Hezbollah.
The
Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said on Monday that "the United
States has no mandate to evaluate sovereign states on any matter,
including terrorism." "Venezuela condemns all forms
of terrorism, including state-sponsored terrorism, and reaffirms that
Venezuela is free of this scourge," said the ministry in a
press release.
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