CP of Chile expresses support for Venezuela

The following is a message sent to the President of the 
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Mr Hugo Chavez Frmas, on August 
10 from the Communist Party of Chile.

Dear friend and President,

At this time when the people of Venezuela are preparing 
themselves to reaffirm your presidential mandate at the 
Referendum of next Sunday August 15, the Central Committee of the 
Communist Party of Chile wishes to express to you its total 
solidarity and its opposition to the manoeuvres organised by 
internal and imperialist forces to frustrate the process of 
transformation that your government is carrying out.

In doing this we are interpreting the convictions of our members, 
organised from north to the south of the country and those of an 
increasing number of our compatriots who have overcome the poison 
being spread about the Bolivarian process. The revolutionary, 
democratic and anti-imperialist measures that you are leading in 
Venezuela — with the support of a people becoming more and more 
organised in the framework of Bolivarian institutions — 
correspond to the national aspirations of the countries and 
peoples of Latin America.

The political changes have allowed for the incorporation a new 
generation of leaders that has replaced the old oligarchy, which 
had submitted to the imperial powers and taken advantage of 
corruption. They are the ones who today are resisting the loss of 
their privileges and resorting to worthless methods.

The economic clean-up, the nationalisation of PDVSA [Venezuela's 
state-owned oil company] and the elaboration of plans through 
"Missions" to take care of the urgent needs of the great 
majority, have opened the way to a new State — one in which the 
exerting of effective sovereignty restores the international 
prestige of its mother country.

The process that you direct is placed to be a decisive factor in 
the integration of the economies of our peoples — an alternative 
to the FTAA [Free Trade Area of the Americas headed by the US] 
and other oppressive forms of dominion over our nations.

The objectives of your government, the great works that have been 
achieved and those that are planned have their inspiration in 
common historical sources. They represent, in a new phase, the 
continuation of the fight of the Liberators of the 19th Century 
who — like Simsn Bolmvar, Martm, Sucre, San Martmn, O'Higgins, 
Artigas — advocated the independent development of our 
countries.

The peoples of Latin America, who have known the solidarity of 
the Venezuelan people, have placed their hopes in the 
possibilities that your triumph in the Referendum will open up. 
From Chile we will continue expressing, our support and 
solidarity with the democratic and anti-imperialist process that 
the Bolivarian project that you head represents.

The letter was signed by Jorge Insunza B of International 
Relations and General Secretary Guillermo Teillier.

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Unofficial translation