JTUM in solidarity with Maduro

In a statement to the media yesterday, JTUM’s general secretary, Ozzi Warwick, said the ongoing actions by the Venezuelan opposition are really an attempt at violent regime change.

“We tend to think of this kind of regime change in the Middle East or Africa, but it has been happening right here in the Americas,” Warrick said. “It started in 2004 with the coup d’etat that removed the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Then, there was the removal by military force of Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras in 2009 after being elected in 2006. Further to this, there was the impeachment and removal from office of the President of Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, in 2012 after being elected in 2008. Now, we are witnessing the impeachment and coup d’etat of Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil.” Warrick said the three democratically elected presidents in Latin American, who have been removed from office, had one thing in common - their belief in an alternative America where the people and sovereign nations of Latin America and the Caribbean can choose an alternative economic and political path.