In a dispatch, the nine-member parties of COIP expressed their ‘profound rejection of the destabilizing plans that the US imperialism has been implementing against the “sisterly Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela”.

Such an act of aggression, the document adds, is expressed in a brutal blockade that seeks to strangle the Venezuelan economy, creating hardships for the people. In addition, the document refers to several sabotage acts, the violence of the so-called guarimbas, the accusations of alleged electoral fraud, and the proclamation of the triumph of the opposition candidate, all in the function of a U.S. military intervention in the making and the overthrow of the government of Nicolas Maduro.

‘With the excuse of the elections’ disputed results, the United States propitiates the vandalism led by Maria Corina Machado and is not interested in democracy in Venezuela, but in its oil reserves, the largest in the world’, the document warns.

Faced with this situation, we want to clearly state that the internal problems of Venezuela must be solved by the Venezuelans themselves, without any imperial interference’, adds the declaration, which goes on to slam the open interventionism by the Organization of American States (OAS) and its Secretary General, Luis Almagro, accusing him of paying service to U.S. interests, which echoes his dealing with the 2019 coup d’état in Bolivia.

‘We reject the foreign policy of Dina Boluarte and her foreign minister Gonzales Olaechea, who, making a fool of himself in the international arena is calling fraud and ‘recognizes’ the ultra-right-wing Gonzales Urrutia as president, as he did with Fujimorism in the Peruvian elections of 2021′, the note added.

As a solution to the crisis, the leftist parties essentially propose respect for the institutionality of the Venezuelan electoral system and the Venezuelan justice system, while calling on all parties to contribute to the transparency of the electoral scrutiny.

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