Venezuela Tackles US Interference in Latin
America
Caracas - Amid imminent increase of
the US military presence in the region, the
Venezuelan National Library is holding on
Tuesday a debate entitled Military Bases in
Latin America: The Empire Strikes Back.
Venezuelan United Socialist Party (PSUV)
Political Training Coordinator Jorge Arreaza,
Culture Ministry International Relation
department Director Sergio Rodriguez, and
Gen. Melvin Lopez Hidalgo, former secretary
of the National Defense Council, areamong
the speakers in the debate.
Roberto Hernandez, president of the "Romulo
Gallegos" Center for Latin American Studies,
will chair the discussion.
According to the Colombian-US accord,
Washington could use at least seven military
enclaves in Colombian territory.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rejected
the US military expansionism in his weekly
Alo Presidente television and radio show.
The statesman highlighted that the Americans
will not limit its military operations to
Colombia, but will seek control over
strategic areas, as the Orinoco Oil Belt.
This country started the process to freeze
economic relations with Colombia on July 28,
as a response to the threat that the
Colombian-US military agreement means to the
region.
World social movement and progressive
parties are attending in this capital an
event against the US warmongering policy,
PSUV leader Rodrigo Cabezas stated Monday.
According to Cabezas, the meeting was
convened in the Sao Paulo Forum, held in
Mexico this weekend. More than 500 delegates
from 32 nations agreed peaceful actions in
the continent against the military pact
signed between Bogota and Washington.
The first "mass" activity after the Forum to
repudiate the "warmongering bases" and the
threat they mean to the regional peoples'
sovereignty will develop on Friday in
Argentina, during the meeting of the Union
of South American Nations.
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