The president of , , and the Nobel Peace Prize winner signed a manifesto by intellectuals against, described as a new version of , used to justify interventions in Latin America.
The text is supported by names such as the American economist, historian Aviva Chomsky, daughter of, and sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, among others.
The manifesto states that the American attack on Venezuela represented the “reappearance of a historical logic that we know with painful precision: that of being treated as a wild frontier, a territory where the rules that govern the ‘civilized world’ are suspended without any question and violence is exercised as if it were a natural right.”
In the text, the intellectuals state that the operations and threats of intervention are a new version of the Monroe Doctrine and the National Security Doctrine and “resemble the myth of ‘living space’ used by the Third Reich a century ago.”
For the signatories, the action was an “obscene demonstration of impunity before any law” that made the international order dispensable. “Where diplomatic euphemisms, legal ambiguities or humanitarian pretexts previously operated, the direct affirmation that force alone is sufficient to legitimize action has emerged,” they write.
Intellectuals claim that actions that, in other territories, would be considered crimes, acts of war or a flagrant violation of sovereignty become a “measure”, a “pressure”, a “preventive operation” or “assistance for stability” in Latin America.
The authors argue that Venezuela is not an exception, but a dress rehearsal. “When a power acts in this way and does not face effective sanctions, the message is unequivocal: the exception becomes the rule,” they say. “What is tolerated today as an isolated case will be incorporated tomorrow as operational precedent. International law does not collapse overnight; it is eroded by the accumulation of silences.”
They criticize the international community’s silence in the face of aggression against Venezuela and argue that supporting Venezuela means “affirming that Latin America is not anyone’s backyard or border; it is not a sacrifice zone or anyone’s wild frontier.”
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