According to United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) spokesman, Rodrigo Cabezas, the Patriotic Alliance (AP) has not broken up and continues to be an important political and strategic but not electoral element. For the PSUV, Cabezas insists, it is important to seek possible encounter points with organizations, such as Patria Para Todos (PPT) and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV). At the meeting yesterday, the PSUV decided unanimously to continue the process of dialogue with all allied sectors. Hammering home the point, PSUV leader, Jorge Rodriguez maintains that the PSUV is in a position to become the champion of unity understood as a democratic practice and for that reason agreements cannot be made by elites or small groups. "We will undertake our affairs with the Patriotic Alliance through communication and we only hope that the extended hand will be understood that we want deeper alliances."
The PSUV is replying to charges of showing sectarian and arrogant attitudes towards minor parties by pushing through its own candidates in areas where allied candidates are believed to have greater acceptance.
As the Venezuelan Episcopal conference summer meeting gets under way, its president and Archbishop of Maracaibo, Ubaldo Santana has criticized the Comptroller General Office's decision to continue the political ban on administrative grounds against mostly opposition candidates to the November regional elections. The Archbishop says the ban is an element that unsettles the democratic climate of the upcoming elections. The ban itself, Santana contends, contravenes article 42 of the Constitution, which states that the exercise of citizenship or some political rights can only be suspended by the judicial sentence in cases which are determined by law. The Archbishop announces that the CEV is deeply concerned about the "uncontrollable climate of violence and insecurity which invades both the political as well as social body of Venezuela" and the lack of action is to counter the phenomenon.
Opposition Primero Justicia (PJ) national coordinator, Julio Borges has set the record straight regarding multiple candidacies for the upcoming regional elections on November 23. The opposition leader admits that the process of unity is very complex and he compares it to a number of jigsaw puzzles all mixed up together which one has to undo to set up. Borges denies that he agrees with multiple candidacies but says he has faith that the process will proceed smoothly and unity will prevail. Not everybody, the PJ leader states, has the moral fiber to accept reality and not everybody is a good loser. Furthermore, he concedes, there are many power interests at play, payments of adverts and efforts to manipulate polls. Referring to candidacies for the important Caracas Sucre municipality between PJ's Carlos Ocariz and William Ojeda, the polls show that the former is a winner but Ojeda has refused to recognized the verdict, so the decision has been to repeat the survey. Borges insists that there is a compromise on the part of Ojeda's party, Un Nuevo Tiempo (UNT) to accept the outcome of the second poll.
The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) says it agrees completely with a protest march against the presence of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe in Caracas on Friday. The party's central committee has agreed to attend the protest to let it be known that the party does not share Uribe's belligerent, terrorist, narco-paramilitary and pro-imperialist policies. PCV general secretary, Oscar Figuera clarifies that while the PCV understands that it is the role of the State to have good relations with all governments, the PCV as an independent and autonomous political organisation has a right to express its solidarity with the Colombian people and reject the warmongering policies of the Colombian government. The PCV has highlighted its solidarity with the indigenous movement in Colombia's Cauca Department where several local councilors have been assassinated. Figuera states that the Colombian trade union movement has suffered the assassinations of 28 union leaders already this year. The protest will take place in front of the Colombian Embassy.
President Chavez has attended the graduation ceremony of 507 new officers starting their professional career in the Bolivarian Armed Force and the retirement 0f 189 officers. The President calls on the new graduates to be aware of the role that they must play in their new career and to exercise it with pride in this historical moment. Venezuela is currently living a real revolution, the President told them, and each one of them must assume his/her role within the revolution. It is a revolution of peoples, concepts and paradigms, the President proclaims, and Venezuelans must build their future. "A dependent country does not build anything and it is others that build." The Venezuelan revolution, Chavez argues, is an answer to the historical catastrophe that Venezuela has been experiencing ... "in Venezuela, we are beginning to build our own future ... we need military officers who are studious and deepen their knowledge because from knowledge comes conscience."
Patrick J. O'Donoghue
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Venezuela is facing the most difficult period of its history with honest reporters crippled by sectarianism on top of rampant corruption within the administration and beyond, aided and abetted by criminal forces in the US and Spanish governments which cannot accept the sovereignty of the Venezuelan people to decide over their own future.
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