[News] Venezuela: Getting Rid of Illusions

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Venezuela: Getting Rid of Illusions
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By Elías Jaua Milano  –  July 23, 2026

Rescuers search for earthquake  victims within the rubble of a La Guaira.
Photo: Jesús Vargas

*“Innocence does not kill the people, but it does not save them either;
their conscience will save them, and I bet my soul on that.”* — Alí Primera

Still in shock after having suffered two continuous earthquakes, with our
souls saddened by the compatriots who have died and been injured, moved by
the pain of the relatives who are still searching for their loved ones, at
least to give them a Christian burial, in solidarity with the anguish of
the tens of thousands of families without homes, with all the pains of the
world at once, we cannot stop talking and writing about the need to fight
for the independence and dignity of Venezuela. In fact, the tragedy that
strikes us today makes it more urgent.

Taking advantage of the catastrophic situation, armed US troops have landed
in La Guaira, warships have been stationed on our coasts, and Venezuelan
airspace is daily violated by drones, planes, and helicopters of the
occupying power. They have not rescued anyone, they have not assisted
anyone, they only occupy, survey land, and control port and airport
facilities. They humiliate.

They announce lavish reconstructions alongside the Israeli government,
whose principal leaders are facing well-founded accusations of evident
genocide against the Palestinian people at the International Criminal Court
and the International Court of Justice. A peaceful people like the
Venezuelans, supportive, with a tradition of fighting for independence,
peaceful coexistence, and the human cause, do not deserve this affront.

This ignominy is aggravated by the silence of political leaders from all
sectors with authorized spokespersons, with representation and
responsibilities in the various State institutions, apparently more
interested in presenting themselves as the best option to collaborate with
the Trump administration’s colonization plan than in fulfilling their
constitutional duty to preserve the integrity and dignity of the Republic.

In these circumstances, those of us who deeply love our homeland,
Venezuela, are obliged to decry, once again, that the government of the
United States:

   1. exercises a colonial administration in Venezuela, commercializing our
   resources and appropriating our economic income, which is otherwise
   necessary for reconstruction after the earthquakes and for overcoming the
   precarious economic and social situation of the population in general. This
   is exacerbated by the imposition of a draconian and corrupt plan to pay the
   external debt, which compromises a high percentage of public finances for
   the remainder of this century.
   2. has violated the right to self-determination, imposing a political
   plan tailored to its annexation intentions.
   3. is carrying out a military invasion in our territory that began in
   August 2025, passing through the vile missile attack on January 3, 2026,
   with a toll of dead and wounded, continuing with several incursions and
   attacks in the following months, and is currently expressed in the landing
   of heavily armed soldiers and equipment in La Guaira, in June of this year,
   with the serious risk that this presence poses to the physical and moral
   integrity of the population, especially women, girls, and boys.
   4. forces the implementation of an extractivist neoliberal model that
   excludes the vast majority from the common good and will irreversibly
   damage our ecosystem.
   5. involves Venezuela in the scheme of its geopolitical war in the
   Middle East, with dangerous consequences for our security as a nation.

Consequently, as a people, we must raise our awareness about the severity
of the occupation and its consequences; and trust in our capabilities as a
nation to promote a unified agenda that would allow us to:

   1. Recover the right to political, institutional, and legislative
   self-determination. Venezuelans must be the ones to democratically decide
   who governs us and what laws and institutions we need and want, within the
   framework of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
   2. Recover economic sovereignty: freely trade with our resources and
   products, that it be the Venezuelan State that administers, under strict
   fiscal controls, the revenues from those resources for the common good and
   urgently, to overcome the economic and social consequences of the emergency
   caused by the earthquakes and a decade of economic chaos and brutal,
   unjust, and illegal sanctions.
   3. Demand the withdrawal of military troops and security agents from the
   United States and the State of Israel, and the cessation of any type of
   foreign military operation in Venezuela. The security of the nation is the
   responsibility of the Venezuelan State.
   4. Build a model and a plan for political, economic, and social
   development of inclusion and social equality, agreed upon by all currents
   of political thought.
   5. Exercise our right to have peaceful and cooperative relations with
   all the nations of the world that share the principles of humanity and
   international coexistence.

Compatriots, they want to convince us that we are incapable of managing our
nation, that the only way to achieve development and well-being is by being
tutored or annexd by the United States government. This is completely
false. It is necessary for the Venezuelan people to know that the United
States neither creates nor brings about well-being for the vast majority in
the occupied countries, something that is contrary to its doctrine.

This colonial administration will only establish enclaves for oil and
mining extraction, with no economic benefits for the nation, no limits on
the violation of the rights of the Venezuelan people, and with atrocious
environmental destruction. The consequence will be the deepening and
generalization of structural misery, as evident in all the countries
occupied over the past decades.

It is necessary and timely to alert that a process of gentrification and
displacement of the local population will occur in La Guaira, so that the
Trump family, its associates, and business partners can have the best land
to develop a real estate enclave associated with port, airport, and tourist
services. Surely this would also happen in some other coastal towns.

The current circumstances demand that we do everything within our power to
achieve a national agreement aimed at restoring our Republic, and to show
that we can indeed build a democratic society here on Venezuelan soil,
where we can all live with equality, justice, and dignity. The occupation
by the Trump clan will only expand and structurally establish
underdevelopment and misery. Only by regaining our national
self-determination can we attempt, once again and as many times as
necessary, to build a homeland that embraces the entire Venezuelan family,
that is, a true Republic. It will be so. Let us fight!

Source: Horizonte en diputa
<https://eliasjauavzla.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/desechar-las-ilusiones/>,
translation Orinoco Tribune
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