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Petition addressed to: Federica Mogherini, Donald J. Trump
The board of transform! europe launches an appeal for a peaceful solution of the political crisis in Venezuela.[*]
The United States government must cease interfering in Venezuela’s internal politics, especially for the purpose of overthrowing the country’s government. The EU must not allow itself to be dragged behind the initiatives of the US. Under the Trump administration, aggressive rhetoric against the Venezuelan government has ratcheted up to a more extreme and threatening level, even implying the possibility of “military action”. Problems resulting from Venezuelan government policy have been worsened by US economic sanctions, illegal under the Organization of American States and the United Nations ― as well as US law and other international treaties and conventions. These sanctions have cut off the means by which the Venezuelan government could escape from its economic recession, while causing a dramatic falloff in oil production worsening the economic crisis, and causing many people to die because they can’t get access to life-saving medicines.
Now the US and its allies, including Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, have pushed Venezuela to the precipice. By recognizing National Assembly President Juan Guaido as the new president of Venezuela the Trump administration has sharply accelerated Venezuela’s political crisis in the hopes of dividing the Venezuelan military and further polarizing the populace, forcing them to choose sides. The obvious, and sometimes stated goal, is to force Maduro out via a coup d’état.
Reason
Neither side in Venezuela can simply vanquish the other. In such situations, the only solution is a negotiated settlement, as has happened in the past in Latin American countries when politically polarized societies were unable to resolve their differences through elections. For the sake of the Venezuelan people, the region, and for the principle of national sovereignty the European Union, its member states and the majority of the European Parliament should instead of interfering in the domestic affairs of Venezuela and taking a one-sided position support negotiations between the Venezuelan government and its opponents that will allow the country to finally emerge from its political and economic crisis.
Initial Signatories
Giorgio AGAMBEN (Italy)
Katerina ANASTASIOU, transform! europe (Austria/ Greece)
Athena ATHANASIOU, Nikos Poulantzas Institute (Greece)
Olga ATHANITI, member of the central committee SYRIZA, member of the European Left Party executive board (Greece)
Walter BAIER, transform!at and Political Coordinator transform! europe (Austria)
Matyas BENYIK, ATTAC Hungary Association (Hungary)
Board of Cul:tra - Cooperativa Culturas do Trabalho e Socialismo (Portugal)
Antoine DE CABANES, Espaces Marx (France)
Felicity DOWLING, Left Unity (UK)
Kyrkos DOXIADIS, University of Athens (Greece)
Jean-Numa DUCANGE, University of Rouen (France)
Adelina ESCANDELL GRASES, Presidenta Fundació l'Alternativa (Catalunya)
Marga FERRÉ, Europe of Citizens Foundation / Fundación por la Europa de los Ciudadanos (FEC) (Spain)
Peter Karl FLEISSNER, transform!at (Austria)
Haris GOLEMIS, Scientific and Strategic Consultant of transform! europe, editor of transform's Yearbook (Greece)
Thomas HÄNDEL, European Parliament (Germany)
Frigga HAUG, InkriT (Germany)
Wolfgang Fritz HAUG, InkriT (Gemany)
Cornelia HILDEBRANDT, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Germany)
Kate HUDSON, Transform UK (UK)
Miloš Baković JADŽIĆ, Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) (Serbia)
Inger V. JOHANSEN, Transform!Danmark and Enhedslisten/Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)
Jan KAVAN, Spojenectví práce a solidarity (Alliance of Labour and Solidarity), spokesman (Czechia)
Boian KIROV, political party Bulgarian Left (Bulgaria)
Danai KOLTSIDA, Nikos Poulantzas Institute (Greece)
Theodora KOTSAKA, University of Athens (Greece)
Jeremy LEAMAN, Loughborough University (UK)
Yann LE LANN, Espaces Marx (France)
Ramon LUQUE, Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (Spain)
Jiri MALEK, The Society for European Dialogue (SPED) (Czech Republic)
Mirko MESSNER, Chairman Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) (Austria)
Francine MESTRUM, Global Social Justice, Brussels (Belgium)
Gabriele MICHALITSCH, University of Vienna (Austria)
Martina MICHELS, MEP, Die Linke. delegation in the European Parliament (Germany)
Jean-Pierre MICHIELS, Parti Communiste Wallonie- Bruxelles (Belgium)
Hugo MONTEIRO, cul:tra (Portugal)
Roberto MOREA, transform!italia (Italy)
Anna ONOFREJOVÁ, Levicové kluby žen (Left Women's Clubs), deputy chairperson (Czechia)
Heikki PATOMÄKI, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Gitte PEDERSEN, Transform!Danmark (Denmark)
Pavel PETKOV, Českomoravský slovanský svaz, chairperson (Czechia)
Klaus PICKSHAUS, former trade union officer (Germany)
Jukka PIETILÄINEN, Left Forum (Finland)
Mirek PROKEŠ, UNITED for Intercultural Action (Czechia)
Martin SCHIRDEWAN, MEP, Die Linke (Germany)
Georg SCHÖNFELD (Austria)
Vladimir SIMOVIĆ, Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) (Serbia)
Michalis SPOURDALAKIS, Nicos Poulantzas Institute, Dean, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
Libuše STAŇKOVÁ, Alternativa zdola (Alternative from Below), spokeswoman (Czechia)
G. M. TAMÁS, Central European University, Budapest (Hungary)
Bojana TAMINDŽIJA, Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) (Serbia)
Darko VESIĆ, Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) (Serbia)
Tanja VUKŠA, Centre for the Politics of Emancipation (CPE) (Serbia)
Gabriele ZIMMER, Member of European Parliament (Germany)
Petition details
Petition started:
02/07/2019
Collection ends:
03/06/2019
Region:
European Union
Topic:
Foreign affairs
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