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NEW on Liberation School: @NicolasMaduro's speech on Venezuela’s new anti-blockade law to resist U.S. imperialism, translated by @GloriaLaRiva

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Since the Venezuelan people elected Cmdte Hugo Chávez President of the Republic on Dec 6, 1998, the U.S. empire defined a strategic doctrine, a plan that has since dominated the relations between the U.S. & Venezuela: the doctrine of regime change.

This ideology states that the United States will not allow consolidation in Venezuela of a political project and a democracy governed by the principles of independence, self-determination, sovereignty and equality between States.

The United States empire does not tolerate that in Venezuela there is a Social State of Law and Justice, a people’s democracy, participatory and protagonist, whose center is the search for equality, collective well-being and social happiness.

The doctrine of regime change states that the United States will do everything in its power to prevent Venezuela from building peacefully and democratically its own path to development, social justice and well-being: the way to Socialism.

In more than two decades, this hegemonic doctrine has been applied and carried out by three U.S. presidents: George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

Regime change proposes that to replace the Bolivarian project the United States will apply in its relations with Venezuela all the available options, “all options are on the table,” as Donald Trump likes to say.

Overthrowing the legitimate govt of Venezuela, destroying our democratic model, annihilating the political and social forces that lead the revolutionary process and taking control of the country. That is in summary, the plan that guides the behavior of the empire toward Venezuela

It is an anachronistic and reactionary ideology that revives the darkest times of the Monroe Doctrine and it has two big objectives.

Read the full article on Liberation School.

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