Fifty academics, intellectuals and trade-unionists from Greece sign open letter against US-led coup d’etat in Venezuela and express their solidarity with the people and the democratically elected government of Venezuela
These days another coup d’ etat is gradually evolving in the long-suffering Latin America. The US and the domestic oligarchy of Venezuela are trying to establish a previously unknown puppet who has never been voted by anyone in power. This effort is not new. For several years, the US and the domestic oligarchy have been trying to regain control of the oil-rich country. To achieve this, they have organized a failed coup in the past, launched murderous gangs from all over Latin America, and literally strangled economically Venezuela. Today, the Right-right Republican Government of Trump, with the complicity of the ‘Liberal’ Democratic Party’s hawks, is even more threatening with open military intervention. Almost all the ‘democratic’ Western world is falling behind it while at the very same time it supports blood-dyed dictatorships and monarchies, and with its common military interventions in recent decades it has sowed wars, ruins and ruins in the world. Particularly the systemic media of mass ‘information’ unleash a unbashful war of misinformation about the situation in Venezuela.
The Venezuelan people by overthrowing the previous corrupt oligarchic political system and bringing Hugo Chavez into power broke the chains that held him a captive of the US and the domestic oligarchy and tried to build a country on the basis of social justice. There have been and there are problems and weaknesses and retreats in this road. Western economic strangulation has worsened and worsened these phenomena in recent years. But no popular struggle for a better future is without costs and sacrifices; and certainly the return to power of the cleptocratic and subservient to the West oligarchy will not improve but will worsen the position of the Venezuelan people.
We call upon all the progressive voices and forces in our country to say vigorously NO to the evolving coup and stand by the struggling Venezuelan people and their democratically elected government and president N. Maduro.
Vasileiou Miltos, Assoc. Professor, University of Ioannina
Gialis Stelios, Assis. Professor, University of Aegean
Gravaris Dionisis, Professor, Panteion University
Grollios Giorgos, Professor, AUTH
Dinopoulou Vaggelitsa, DC of DOE
Zavoudakis Panagiotis, teacher
Zormpala Aleka, lawyer
Zormpala Konstantina, Assis. Professor, University of Aegean
Thalassis Giorgos, teacher, former gen. secretary of Greek Parliament
Thermogiannis Lazaros, former mayor of Metamorfosis
Ioannides Alexis, Assoc. Professor, DUTH
Kaltsonis Dimitris, Assoc. Professor, Panteion University
Kargas Giorgos, Assoc. Professor, AUA
Kasimis Nikos, former local councilor New Philadepheia
Katsoulas Akis, former president of the Greek Sociological Association
Kentrotis Giorgos, Professor, Ionian University
King Mina, actress
Kouzis Giannis, Professor, Panteion University
Maounis Antonis, Secretary (former chairman) of the Greek Architectures Association
Maroudas Leonidas, Professor, University of Patras
Mavroudeas Stavros, Professor, Panteion University
Marouli Eleni, journalist
Miltsakakis Micha;is, EC of ADEDY
Mpakalexi Ntina, philologist, CNRS researcher
Mikroutsikos Thanos, composer
Moschou Dora, historian
Mpakopanos Lefteris, DC of PSATM
Mpalatsa Ioanna, former DC of PSATM
Nikolaidou Olga, journalist, actress
Economakis George, Assoc. Professor, University of Patras
Panteliou Sofia, Professor, University of Patras
Papagianni Maria, writer
Papatheodorou Christos, Professor, Panteion University
Patelis Dimitris, Assoc. Professor, Technical University of Crete
Pavlopoulos Giorgos, trade-unionist OTOE
Pempetzoglou Maria, Assoc. Professor, DUTH
Petropoulos Dimitris, chairman of PO EMDYDAS
Rigopoulos Kimon, actor
Ritsou Eri, retired bank employee
Rousis Giorgos, emer. Professor, Panteion University
Sakellaropoulos Spiros, Professor, Panteion University
Stavropoulos Tasos, PESEK chairman
Tziantzi Marianna, journalist-writer
Tikalinos Christos, emer. Professor NKUA
Tyfonas Spiros, former DC of OEBEK
Tseliou Vanta, teacher
Fasoulas Giannis, former chairman EYDAP trade union
Fousekis Panagiotis, Professor, AUTH
Charisis Giorgos, EC of ADEDY
Chadtzopoulos Stathis, lawyer
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