Communist Party of Venezuela – PCV Political Declaration

CONTINUOUS FIRMNESS IN THE COMBAT FOR PEACE AND PROGRESS

We consider that an imperialist instigation plan is developing in an accelerated way and it has several elements from the domination perspective. One of them is related to the acute crisis faced by the American economy and the domination political system, which historically has demonstrated that capitalism in its monopolist stage, tries to solve its crises by unburden on the people the reasons causing said crises and one way to do this is activating its military complex through war and aggression to those peoples.  

The action executed through the Colombian government and army in the Ecuadorian territory is a hard strike of Imperialism to prevent the humanitarian exchange and Peace seek, which is precisely what is most affected. 

This confrontation promoted by the American imperialism among countries, estates and governments of the Latin American continent and particularly between the Colombian, the Venezuelan and the Ecuadorian governments do serve to the imperialism interests. Therefore we positively evaluate the Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela Presidents performance, who proceeded firmly but with prudence as well to momentarily dismantle the development of an immediate war. 

The result of the Rio Summit sends a firm unified message of the Latin American and Caribbean countries to the war policy of the United Status of America imperialism and to the Colombian oligarchy, defending the sovereignty and rejecting the external interference as well as any other form of aggression. 

We do denounce that the imperialist plan development continues as well as the paramilitarism movement from the borders towards the central states of our country with the Colombian army participation within an expansion strategy, particularly to the popular areas and the oil industry jeopardizing our internal security. 

Within this context the COLOMBIA PLAN now called PATRIOTIC PLAN, is conceived. Its objective is to expand confrontation to the other countries specially those called Andean countries, which are the centre of strategic deployment to dominate the Caribbean Sea basin and all the Amazonia. 

Based on what is previously stated we do declare: 

First.-  We do condemn the military intrusion of the Colombian Army Forces and government against the Ecuadorian territory, as well as the assassination of comrade Commander RAUL REYES, member of the FARC-EP National Secretariat, of the singer author Julian Conrado and the other guerrilla fighters who accompanied him as well as the civilians who were at the improvised camp. 

Second.- The FARC-EP, are the expression of the Colombian people legitimate defence in front of a political regime which has kept that country in dirty war since the assassination of the liberal leader JORGE ELIECER GAITAN on April 9, 1948. 

Third.- We do demand the acknowledgement of the Beligerant Force of the FARC-EP and other expressions of the Colombian armed struggle and do reject their denomination as terrorist because we do not accept the lists made up by the American Department of State. 

Fourth.- The process of humanitarian Exchange and all related matters, in which our government led by President Hugo Chavez Frias has interceded for as gesture of good will, should be increased including the clearing of Florida and Pradera municipalities in Colombia in order to move forward towards a dialogue among the parts with international presence to put an end to the armed conflict in that country and create the conditions for a reconciliation and national reconstruction government. 

Fifth.- The political solution of the conflict among Colombia, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela does not put an end to the contradictions that originated it, much less the threats from different internal and external flanks against our country. 

Sixth.- The Army Forces and the Police as well as all the intelligence services including the popular one, should be engaged in discovering and denouncing the paramilitarism phenomenon before it is too late and we, Venezuelans have to pass the bitter road of more than fifty years of violence faced by the neighbour country.  

Seventh.- We do condemn the unilateralism doctrine that the United States of America wants to impose over the world and particularly on Colombia against our countries as expression of the imperialist dominant conceptions through war, ghost jails and extraterritoriality of penal laws. 

Eighth.-  We do commit to the peace policies promoted by the Bolivarian revolutionary government at a continental and worldwide level and will actively participate in the development of the next Assembly of the World Council of Peace to be held in Caracas on April 8 through April 13, 2008. 

Political Bureau of the Central Committee

Communist Party of Venezuela - PCV

Caracas March 10, 2008