Foreign Minster Arreaza: The Rio Pact is the military expression of the Monroe Doctrine
Upon receiving the march in Plaza Morelos, in Caracas, against the threat of application to Venezuela of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Pact), Jorge Arreaza, the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, defined this obsolete and interventionist mechanism as “the military expression of the Monroe Doctrine, as well as the Organization of American States (OAS) is its institutional expression”.
The FM of the Republic referred to the meeting of foreign ministers of the countries attached to the Rio Pact, this Tuesday in Colombia, emphasizing that while they are in the neighboring country “wasting time, threatening Venezuela, trying to apply a Treaty that dates from the Cold War times, (…) here in Venezuela is the people on the streets, here are the communicators of the world defending the sovereignty of Venezuela and the right of humanity to live in peace”.
In reference to the nationality of Lagos and the meeting in the neighboring nation, the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations asked himself: “How is it possible that the Chilean Foreign Minister is in Bogotá at a meeting of the Tiar (Rio Pact) to attack Venezuela when in his country the people is on the streets claiming their rights and justice? How is it possible that this meeting takes place in Bogotá, being Colombia the country where the recent attacks against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela have been trained and planned?