{"id":3151,"date":"2019-06-25T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2019-07-17T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:36:08","slug":"the-closure-of-canadas-embassy-in-caracas-a-new-stage-of-imperialist-attacks-on-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/the-closure-of-canadas-embassy-in-caracas-a-new-stage-of-imperialist-attacks-on-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"The closure of Canada\u2019s Embassy in Caracas: a new stage of imperialist attacks on Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Young Communist League and\nthe Communist Party of Canada jointly denounce the closure of the Canadian\nEmbassy in Venezuela and the diplomatic blackmail that forced, in corollary, the\nChancellery of Venezuela, to close its consulates in Montreal, Toronto and\nVancouver as a measure of reciprocity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Affairs\u2019 Minister Chrystia\nFreeland justified this decision by saying that Venezuela would refuse the\naccreditation of certain diplomats. This decision is in no way justifiable from\na diplomatic point of view. This is a purely political decision that increases\nCanadian participation in the multifaceted aggression of which Venezuela is\nvictim. It includes demonizing the Venezuelan government to justify the need to\nintervene in this country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The government\u2019s decision follows\na long history of interferences of all kinds in Venezuelan internal affairs. Already\nin the winter of 2015, a RCMP officer, Nancy Birbeck, took part in an attempt\nto bomb the presidential palace. In late summer 2017, Canada began to impose economic\nsanctions on Venezuela, the latest ones taking effect on April 15. These\nsanctions literally hold the population hostage: similar sanctions imposed by\nthe United States have cost more than 40,000 lives. In addition, at the end of December\n2017, Canada declared persona non grata and expelled the Venezuelan ambassador.\nIn January 2019, the Government of Canada recognized a hitherto unknown member\nof the most violent faction of the Venezuelan opposition, Juan Guaid\u00f3, as the country\u2019s\nparallel President, despite elections held in May 2018, which according to all\nreports\u2019 highlights, were regularly held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given such a list of examples of\ninterference that go as far as participation in a military coup attempt, it is\nhard to believe that Venezuelan diplomacy could not find a good reason for\nrefusing to renew the accreditation of some Canadian diplomats. The fears of the\nVenezuelan authorities would be all the more justified as it was revealed\nrecently that Canada literally hired a mercenary, Allan Culham, whose mandate would\nbe to use his contacts in Venezuela to outright dismiss the Maduro government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite all this, Venezuela has\nnever expressed the will to cut diplomatic relations with Canada or to close\nthe Canadian embassy in Caracas – even if it has become a de facto base for the\nfascist branch of the Venezuelan opposition. Neither has Venezuela interfered\nin Canada\u2019s domestic affairs. The decision by the Freeland-Trudeau government to\n\u201csuspend\u201d activities of the Canadian embassy once again reveals Canada\u2019s\nhypocrisy and double standard in international relations. If Venezuela had done\neven one tenth of what Canada did to Venezuela, diplomatic relations would have\nlong since broken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This escalation of tensions between\nthe two countries is part of a global framework marked by an unbridled growth\nof Western Imperialism\u2019s aggressiveness, in particular from the United States and\nits Canadian and European allies, not only directed at Venezuela, but at Latin\nAmerican countries and peoples who dare to challenge their subjugation to this\nbarbaric system, for which there are no people, only markets and natural\nresources. It is no coincidence that Freeland\u2019s June 2 announcement followed by\nonly a couple of weeks, the closure of the Canadian Immigration Office in\nHavana, and the assault on the Venezuelan Embassy in the United States, an\nillegal act that Canadian diplomacy has refused to denounce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just a few months before the\nfederal election, this action against Venezuela suggests that the Liberal Party\npersists in its desire to attack Venezuela and to subordinate its foreign\npolicy more fully to that of Trump\u2019s United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The YCL-LJC and the Communist\nParty reiterate their support for Bolivarian Venezuela, its people and its\ndemocratically elected government, of Nicolas Maduro Moros. We also salute the\ncombativity, determination and courage of the people, who continue to stand up\nto the most aggressive imperialism, showing that despite its staggering strike\nforce, imperialism is not impossible to defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, we commit to make international solidarity, especially with Bolivarian Venezuela, a central point of our electoral campaign. We will use this important platform to denounce the belligerent foreign policy pursued by the Liberal and former Conservative governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also pledge to fight for an independent foreign policy based on peace, sovereignty and solidarity, no matter what party will be elected on October 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central Executive Committee, Communist Party of Canada and Central Executive Committee of the Young Communist League of Canada<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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