Barbarism or Civilisation: The method of assassination will always be a threat.

Barbarism or Civilisation: The method of assassination will always be a threat The following is an interview with Professor Reinaldo Bolívar, President of the African, American and Caribbean Knowledge Center for the Investig'Action portal of Michel Collon in Brussels

Investig'Action: You have a very long experience of diplomatic relations between Venezuela and the world. These days we see how many nations, in the face of this attempted attack, have expressed their solidarity to President Maduro. But at the same time, we have seen how some powers, particularly the United States and its allies in Latin America and the European Union maintain a hostile stance towards the Bolivarian Revolution. In international political chess, do you think that this attempted attack will change international relations?

Reinaldo Bolívar: President Nicolás Maduro, based on the force of the first evidence thrown by the research in development, has denounced that the organization of the assassination attempt was carried out from Bogotá (Colombia) and from Miami (USA). The reaction of Colombia, perhaps because of the change of government (from Santos to Duque) has been rather timid and evasive. While the US was somewhat more diplomatic as expressed in the meeting of the Chancellor of Venezuela with the charge of US Business. At that meeting, Venezuela reiterated

President Maduro's public request to Washington to collaborate in the investigation by being certain that there are Venezuelan residents in Miami involved in the intellectual authorship of the frustrated assassination. I believe that these two conducts will guide the reactions on the event, especially in the governments that follow the Trump administration in its policy against Venezuela, such as the Lima Group and the European Union. This does not mean changes in the wrong policy of economic blockade and diplomatic war against the Bolivarian Revolution, but a revision of the irrational methods that they intend to use, such as physical violence, when they are discovered before world public opinion.

The attack against President Maduro and the political high command, speaking in chess terms, puts in check enemy governments of Venezuela, and forces them to move their minor pieces to protect their image as judges and conductors of international politics. In the case of governments that are more conscious and respectful of international law such as the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, and organizations of the South such as OPEC, ALBA, the Islamic Conference, they are condemned to condemn this destabilizing act at the risk that they may be repeated in their countries. Let's not forget, for example, the recent attack suffered by the current president of Zimbabwe. The countries of the South must make common cause to protect their institutions and their leadership, it is time.

Investig'Action: You have a wide knowledge of the African Continent where there have been numerous attacks and assassinations of leaders and Presidents, attacks that history sanctioned for having been instigated many times or carried out directly or covertly by great powers.

President Maduro directly links Bogota and President Manuel Santos to this attack with the support of Washington. Do you think that in the future great powers will persist in this method or that other great powers will strongly oppose it?

Reinaldo Bolívar: Unfortunately, the cowardice of the assassination has persisted since time immemorial. In the European courts there were real massacres of royal families throughout history for access to political power. Brothers who murdered their own brothers or even their parents. Or in ancient Egypt the murders of pharaohs. In India the martyrdom of Gandhi is still mourning in full expression of his regional leadership and world influence.

The method of assassination is recurrent. The United States, which saw the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, who had embraced uncomfortable causes for the elites, has not escaped it. Or world leaders like Luther King and Malcolm X. Not the Vatican. John Paul II was about to perish as a victim of induced fanaticism.

The Liberator Simon Bolivar suffered several attacks in the exercise of supreme command, the most remembered were in Jamaica, in Guárico and in Bogotá. Venezuela lost in Colombia to the Segundo de Bolívar, General Antonio José de Sucre, who had been President of Ecuador and was called to succeed the Libertado in the Presidency of Colombia la Grande. In Our America, Fidel Castro narrated the multiple times they tried to kill him, Hugo Chávez narrated

how he avoided being assassinated on April 12, 2002, after the coup d'ĂŠtat; and if we want a materialization we have the death of the president of Granada President Maurice Bishop.

In Africa the imperial powers decided to put an end to African socialism by annihilating the leadership, thus killing directly or indirectly men like Amilcar Cabral, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Gamal Nasser, Agostino Neto, Eduardo Mondlane, among others. And more recently (2011) the public assassination and applauded by the Chancellor Obama, Muammar Gaddafi.

Very close to Africa the poisoning of Yasser Arafat by Israeli Zionism; and the macabre circus mounted by the US to end the life of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, realize that this method of cruel and detestable interference is not going to end. It will remain an inexplicable option for the desperate to dominate the countries of the South.

No kind of barbarism is suitable for any civilized nation in the world. But evidently the method, like the one of indiscriminate wars and bombings against the peoples, is part of the repertoire of actions of the powers that believe themselves to be masters of the world. Let's not forget, the times that have invoked that the final solution in Syria passes through the death of its President.

Given this, there is always the hope of the clarity of the current leadership, both personal and partisan, of strong countries that have shown their rationality in the United Nations Security Council and in the containment of terrorism in Syria, such as Russia and China.

Source: https://www.saberesafricanos.net/noticias/opinion/editor/3703-reinaldo-bolivar-el-metodo-del-ma gnicidio-sera-siempre-una-amezana.html Edited by Fredrick Kasuku.