As the Central Council of EDON, we express our solidarity towards the people and the youth of Venezuela, who resist the imperialist hegemony of the United States, which, along with the local reaction, engages in continued attempts to stir up and destabilize the country. The country is at the forefront of the imperialists with the sole aim of their political and economic domination over Latin America for the benefit of multinational corporations.
Imperialist aggression is being deployed in every way and with every mean in the attempt to overthrow the legitimate government of President Maduro, aiming to end the progressive processes launched by former President Hugo Chavez.
Despite the violent attacts of the opposition, the boycott of the economy and the extreme violence exerted by terrorist and fascist groups, the Venezuelan people went down to the polls on July 30th to elect their delegates for the new Constituent Assembly.
Of course the bourgeois mass media did not hesitate once again to falsify the reality by turning the perpetrator into a victim. The coverage of the elections in the country was a rage of misinterpretation from the international and Cypriot media.
• References were made to a «Regulated Convention», concealing the fact that the opposition which was invited to participate to the assembly, could set the constitution, but preferred to boycott the electoral process.
• It is reported deceptively that there was a low turnout in the elections and this is why the outcome is being questioned, but at the same time they do not question the outcome in France where the abstention in the second round of the 2017 parliamentary elections reached 57.36%. Nor do they question the outcome in the US, where the President was elected with the participation of only 53.6% of Americans. At the same time, they ignore the vote of more than eight million Venezuelans who voted in the polls despite the oppositions’ threats and attacks.
• Nicolas Maduro is accused of being a "dictator", when he is the democratically elected President of the country and while giving the floor to the people to elect the National Assembly.
As the Central Council of EDON, we reject imperialist propaganda and stand with solidarity in defending the peace, sovereignty and independence of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in defending the right of the Venezuelan people to decide for themselves on their future and to safeguard the conquests and His achievements.
Intertnational Relations Bureau
C.C. EDON
03/08/2017