Venezuelan President Maduro: ‘Colonialism is the origin of fascism and Nazism’

From: Venezuela & ALBA News 10.18.2024:

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Ultimas Noticias: Maduro: Colonialism is the origin of fascism and Nazism Maduro dismantled the narratives of “discovery” and “meeting of civilizations” imposed for years. “Nobody discovered anyone, in any case it was us who discovered something, we discovered the criminals, the murderers, those who came to kill, to rape, to sicken our people. That is the only discovery we had.” He complained that “no one has asked for forgiveness, they take refuge in the ideology of denialism. Spain supports and claims this barbaric event as a process of civilization.”

Ultimas Noticias: Oil production grows and approaches one million barrels The OPEC market report shows an increase in crude oil production in Venezuela to 943,000 barrels per day, 16,000 barrels more than last August and the highest level in the last five years. OPEC report puts the price of Merey 16 crude oil, the reference for Venezuela, at $56.91 per barrel.

Ultimas Noticias: Maduro sets a goal of allocating 70% of the budget to the People’s Power Starting in 2025, four annual Popular Consultations in the network of communes will be held so that the people can vote on their priority projects.  Maduro reiterated that, in the next 6 years 70% of the country’s resources will be allocated to the Popular Consultation, so that “they go into the hands of the organized people….One of the vital objectives of our commander Chavez was that the Commune would become the great territorial engine of the transformation of Venezuelan society; the union of Popular Power so that democracy would be real and not false like the bourgeois democracy representative of the elites.”

Venezuela’s Response to the UN Human Rights Council Report by the so-called Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela This video by Venezuelan journalist Karen Méndez Loffredo is a splendid rebuttal of the the latest “UN report” that lies about Venezuela in an effort to help Washington oust President Nicolas Maduro, who was just re-elected on July 28.

Ultimas Noticias: Cabello to Bolton: The only negotiation that can take place is for the terrorists to surrender The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello said, ““John Bolton is a failure, he is a clown. He had all the power to overthrow the Revolution and he couldn’t, and now that he doesn’t have it he is talking nonsense. This is the level that these people from the opposition outside Venezuela reach.” The Bolivarian leader’s statement was in response to recent inappropriate statements by former United States National Security Advisor John Bolton about an alleged negotiation with the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, to get him to leave power. Cabello, emphasized that the only negotiation that can take place in the country “is that the terrorists and fascists want to surrender, because if not, we will go looking for them.”

Friends of Socialist China: Venezuela Ambassador to UK Félix Plasencia: Venezuela and China are pioneering nations in the construction of a multipolar world Plasencia noted that, while the US and its allies have been subjecting Venezuela to illegal and arbitrary unilateral coercive measures, “China has consolidated itself as a true friend and a beacon of hope for sovereign nations and governments still striving for full independence”.