Thank You, Venezuela!

Thank You, Venezuela! / Somos+

Somos+, 2 September 2016 — Yesterday the Venezuelan people gave us
another great lesson: We can go out into the streets united to demand
our rights, we can peacefully challenge a Populist-Marxist government
and conquer the streets. It was a great victory.

We salute our Venezuelan brothers and we thank them. Thank you for
gathering in such huge numbers to remember one of your leaders, Leopoldo
Lopez, who chose to be arrested in a very special place in Caracas: at
the foot of the statue of Jose Marti, reminding us all that Cuba is one
thing and Fidel Castro and his agents are another, and they are the ones
collaborating with the Maduro dictatorship.

The protest achieved its planned objectives: to "occupy" Caracas and
demand a recall election, without delay, without waiting for next year,
which is what Maduro wants.

It is important to know what the objective was and that it has been
achieved, because some voices have commented saying the effort was
useless, because they should have taken advantage of the moment to
occupy the centers of power in Caracas.

That would have been to anticipate events and give the Chavistas
arguments to use all the forces of their paramilitary collaborators and
the army itself.

The time for that has not yet arrived in Venezuela. First all the legal
means and resources must be exhausted, and we hope that when the time
comes the military will refuse to shoot, because they recognize that in
these demonstrators are their children, their brothers, their wives,
their mothers or themselves.

Venezuelans have given us a great demonstration of where you can get
with unity around a table in which everyone can organize themselves,
around those objectives they have in common and forgetting their
differences.

These common objectives are, briefly: NO to hunger and misery, YES to
work and progress. NO to tyranny, YES to democracy. It's that simple.

From this lesson we must draw a firm determination, in our own national
struggle, of advancing our movement: Somos+ (We Are More), and advancing
our roundtable: MUAD.

Long live free Venezuela and Cuba!

Source: Thank You, Venezuela! / Somos+ – Translating Cuba -
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