Venezuelan President Maduro Approves Creation of the First Anti-Fascist International
Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodriguez (L), President Nicolas Maduro (C), and FM Yvan Gil (R), Caracas, Sept. 11, 2024. X/ @yoleidaq95
September 12, 2024 Hour: 8:36 am
He also condemned attempts to carry out coups against independent governments in Bolivia, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
On Wednesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro approved the creation of the Antifascist International, a movement aimed at uniting progressive and democratic forces around the world to counter the rise of fascism and the far right globally.
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During the closing of the “World Congress Against Fascism, Neo-Fascism, and Similar Expressions,” held in Caracas, he approved the new international body as a measure to confront the violence being generated by the far right in the South American nation.
Maduro condemned imperialism’s attempts to carry out coups against alternative and independent governments in Bolivia, Honduras, and Nicaragua. The Bolivarian leader also expressed solidarity with the victims of the Venezuelan far right and denounced the international silence surrounding the crimes committed by that political tendency.
“The creation of an Antifascist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Imperialist International has been proposed to fight for a new world… the proposal is approved. The Antifascist International is created,” he said, adding that this space for collective organization of progressive forces will have a Caracas-based coordinating committee.
“It is increasingly evident the silence of the international community in the face of the violence of the global far right,” Maduro said, emphasizing that the international community is not defending the truth.
“No one comes forward to defend the families of those who were killed. No one defends those who were murdered returning from work,” he said, implicitly referring to what happened in Venezuela after the presidential elections of July 28.
“No one acknowledges the pain of these families. No one comes forward to defend the two National Guard sergeants who were captured, beaten, and shot,” the Bolivarian leader lamented.
teleSUR/ JF Source: VTV
