Over 13 million people have signed petition to repeal Obama’s decree
Caracas, 10 Abr. AVN.- Some 13,447,651 Venezuelan and Cuban people signed the letter to demand US President Barack Obama to repeal decree declaring Venezuela a “threat” to national security and foreign policy of his country.
These signatures, collected since last March 18 in response to this attack on national sovereignty, will be taken by president Nicolas Maduro, to the 7th Summit of the Americas, to be held in Panama this 10 and 11 April.
The letter was read on national radio and television, by Maria Rosa Jimenez, representing the revolutionary youth. Flanked by the people, Jimenez delivered these signatures to the head of state, in a ceremony held at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas.
Following is the full text of the letter:
On March 9, 2015, our country was the subject of the largest aggression by a foreign empire: an executive order issued by the White House that has stigmatized our nation with an unusual and extraordinary threat.
This absurd statement has aroused the patriotic unity in a same desire to be free.
President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, this is the reason why the people and the vast majority of governments around the world have demanded repeal of this unbelievable decree against our unyielding homeland.
Venezuela in its 205 years of history, in its 205 years as a Republic, has never hurt any nation or has committed the misfortune to sully the right and the political destiny of other peoples, on the contrary, those humble beings who gave their lives to free the continent from the colonial tyranny are remembered around the world as liberators. This is thus a small but immensely proud nation, made up of men and women who have loved and have always defended it as the most appreciated and inherited property.
Our nature is peaceful, our ideals are libertarian ones. The form of government the people have chosen to embody, idealize them, is a global example of the fight against poverty, social exclusion and inequality. No wonder we are the country that since 1999 has increased 60 times public investment aimed at social development and participation.
With the same libertarian impetus for over 200 years, our men and women are armed with intelligence to gain complete independence. President Obama, your government has nothing to fear from Venezuelans. Our only enemies are and will be poverty and inequality, which we learned to fight following the example of our beloved leader Hugo Chavez.
For all this, millions of souls, millions of wills of this peaceful country stand up in one voice to say: a finger pointing strongly to the heart of the world, millions of hearts are one heartbeat, millions of hearts are one fist. 30 million of human beings that choose to live, 30 million voices will sing the hurricane of love.
We, the undersigned, being born free and determined to live in freedom, created equal and committed to live together in equality, raised for independence, democratic by choice, born human and meant to grow in humanity; we, citizens of the nation where one in three compatriots pursues education; we, patriots of the country with less inequality in Latin America, we know about equality; we, citizens of one of the five happiest countries in the world, we affirm that happiness does not threaten.
President of the North, nobody has chosen you as executioner. President Obama, repeal destruction. President of the North, repeal the decree.
Long live the people of Bolivar and Chavez! Long live peace! Long live Bolivar! Long live the Venezuelan people! Long live Chavez!
In Caracas, April 9, 2015
We Shall Overcome.