Venezuela 2025 — GA Speeches

Mr. President,

Venezuela speaks to the world with the truth.
Over five centuries, the history of our Homeland has been marked by an essential idea: to achieve a society where equality, justice and freedom reign.
It was Simón Bolívar, the greatest man born on American soil, who, with his word and his work, universalized the Latin American and Caribbean spirit and sentiment. The ideal that the world must live in balance, that every struggle for a better society must have as its port, as its final destination, peace.

Mr. President,

The first ships that arrived in our Caribbean Sea came to dominate us. They subjugated our ancestors for 300 years. More than 90 million native inhabitants were exterminated.
There began our long struggle of resistance against colonization and humiliation.
Three centuries later, the liberating army, formed by Black people, Indigenous people, white people, and mestizos, in which slaves, peasants and free men from across the continent mixed as equals, set out from the shores of the Caribbean Sea to the heights of Ayacucho and liberated South America forever.

Mr. President,

We have been a country that learned to fight for its destiny. The 20th century began with a blockade of our coasts in the Caribbean Sea, and a coup d'état against the nationalist general Cipriano Castro, financed by oil companies and the government of the United States.
It was a century of harsh disputes between the ideal of a nation that claimed the sovereign enjoyment of its wealth for its development, and puppet governments that subordinated the country to foreign and imperialist interests. Those surrendering governments plunged Venezuela for decades into the most shameful misery and repression.
It was at the end of the last century, in 1999, that the Venezuelan people managed to articulate all the historic force that had been accumulated over decades of struggle for an independent, just and sovereign national project.
That project, inspired by Bolívar's original ideas and led by an extraordinary leader, Commander Hugo Chávez, managed to raise a powerful popular movement to carry out a peaceful and democratic revolution.

Mr. President,

From the first day, President Chávez courageously adopted a nationalist and sovereign oil policy, and undertook a historic effort to recover the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), as a great multilateral instrument and guarantee of the world's energy security.
Today, 26 years later, world public opinion and the peoples of the world know very well everything the United States power did to overthrow Commander Chávez and put an end to this historic project of liberation, which was backed and successively reaffirmed by the Venezuelan people in 32 elections.
With the physical passing of President Chávez, the people ratified, in multiple electoral and political events, Venezuela's historic project of emancipation, which is now led by President Nicolás Maduro.
Also known, and widely documented, is the war that has been waged against us in every form, the criminal aggression that over the past decade has been carried out against Venezuela in order to seize its natural riches and produce a "regime change."

Mr. President,

The aggressions against Venezuela in recent years are countless: destabilization actions and conspiracies, including an assassination attempt using drones; economic warfare, whose cruelest expression is the 1,042 sanctions applied criminally against our oil industry and the productive sectors of the nation, as well as several mercenary incursions.
To all this is now added an absolutely illegal and totally immoral military threat that violates the UN Charter, Venezuela's rights as a sovereign State, and even the laws of the United States itself.
Venezuela thanks this General Assembly for the majority and overwhelming solidarity of the world's governments and peoples, especially the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), the BRICS, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), among others, who have rejected these immoral threats and have supported Venezuelan democracy and Venezuela's right to peace and development.

Mr. President,

In these early decades of the 21st century, we have witnessed the false and vulgar justifications used to invade our sister nation Iraq, we have witnessed the bombing and destruction of Libya, and the 20-year invasion of Afghanistan.
The aggression of the global powers has not ceased for an instant. And so, recently, we saw the peaceful Islamic Republic of Iran bombed in a treacherous and criminal manner.
Today the aggression is aimed at Venezuela, a peaceful and supportive country.
Since Venezuela cannot be accused of having weapons of mass destruction or nuclear weapons, they now invent vulgar and perverse lies that no one believes—not in the United States, not in the world—in order to justify a costly, atrocious, extravagant and immoral military threat.
That is why we thank once again world public opinion and that of the United States, the governments and peoples of the world, for denouncing this attempt to bring a war to the Caribbean and South America, in order to bring about a "regime change" that would allow them to steal Venezuela's incalculable oil and gas wealth.

Mr. President,

This does not surprise us!
It is widely known that the people of the United States have repeatedly voted for governments that promised to make peace and end the eternal wars. That promised to focus on resolving their internal problems: poverty, the addiction epidemic, unemployment and inequality that characterize American society today. And we see how, time and again, the noble American people are defrauded.
That is why Venezuela today ratifies its Bolivarian vocation for peace, for self-determination, and fully assumes—based on the Charter of the United Nations—its right to defend its sovereignty and to defend the peace of the Caribbean and all of South America.
Venezuela is part of the new multipolar world that has been born. It was the ideal of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, when in 1824, on the heights of Junín, on the eve of a decisive battle, he said to his soldiers:
"Peru and all of America await from you peace, daughter of victory; and even liberal Europe watches you with delight, because the freedom of the New World is the hope of the universe."

Mr. President,

Venezuela defends, fights and works for a world of balance, justice and equality. Without colonial empires.
It was Chávez who was the great engine of the birth of that world on our continent, with the founding of Petrocaribe, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), and CELAC.
The Venezuelan people love peace and are therefore always ready to defend it. We are not frightened by threats, lies, or cannons. The love of freedom runs through our veins.
Bolívar taught us this, when in 1818, faced with the threat of an insolent envoy from Washington, he replied:
"It seems that your intent is to force me to reciprocate the insults; I will not do so, but I do tell you that I will not permit the government and the rights of Venezuela to be insulted or scorned (...) Fortunately, a handful of free men has often been seen to conquer powerful empires."

Mr. President,

The revolutionary government of President Nicolás Maduro fully ratifies its commitment to building that world of respect for international law; without hegemonic or warmongering empires. Where the peoples of the Global South see our right to peace and to the future guaranteed.
We stand in solidarity with the heroic people of Palestine and demand an end to the genocide by the Zionist regime of Israel. We condemn the attacks against the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
We stand in solidarity with Cuba and demand, together with the world, the lifting of the murderous and criminal blockade.
Likewise, we express our unwavering solidarity with the people of Nicaragua, worthy heirs of Augusto César Sandino. And we demand the complete, immediate and unconditional lifting of the unilateral coercive measures against the sister peoples of Belarus, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Eritrea, Iran, and Zimbabwe.

Mr. President,

We stand with President Putin and the noble Russian people in their fight against neo-Nazism and Western militaristic aggression.
We support the initiatives of President Xi Jinping in favor of building a community of shared destiny.
We reaffirm our historic position of standing with the brave Argentine people in the recovery of their Malvinas Islands. And in their struggle not to turn Argentina into a foreign military base that threatens the peace of the continent.
Venezuela reaffirms the position of the Liberator Simón Bolívar to achieve—sooner rather than later—the definitive emancipation of the people of Puerto Rico and the founding of an independent, free and sovereign Republic. We also renew our support for the just cause of the Sahrawi people.
We further ratify our absolute commitment to the "Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations," which brings together the governments who share our aim of rescuing the United Nations System, which has fallen into a dangerous decline that threatens its very existence.
Today's Nazis, like the Hitlers of yesterday, work for its destruction. We are committed to its consolidation, to its dignification.

Mr. President,

Today we also ratify the course the Venezuelan people has freely set for itself. The world must know that Venezuela is prepared to continue along the path marked out by Simón Bolívar and the liberators and liberating women of America.
We have forged a powerful national union. We reaffirm to the world that Venezuela has not been, is not, and will never be a threat to any nation. Venezuela has been, is, and will always be hope in the building of a new humanity; of a world of equals, without empires, without blackmail, without threats.
A world where colonialism, slavery and exploitation disappear forever. And where peace can be consolidated, and as the Venezuelan poet and singer Alí Primera said, where humanity may be humane.

Thank you very much, Mr. President.