AN unanimously rejected expressions of colonialism by the ICC against Venezuela

Published at: 02/12/2025 06:06 PM

The National Assembly (AN), this Tuesday, December 2, unanimously approved the Agreement in rejection of the expressions of legal colonialism against Venezuela by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its complicit inaction in the face of Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people.

The proposal was presented by the deputy Ilenia Medina, who recalled that the ICC has never taken action in favor of Venezuela, but, on the contrary, it has sided with extremists who have tried to destabilize the country and have been silent in the face of the United States onslaught against Venezuelans.

He stated that Venezuela has experienced “three crucial moments that must be attended to and well accepted by the Venezuelan people.”

In this regard, he specified that the first was since the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez to power, where he wanted to use the Organization of American States (OAS), as an instrument to promote a change of Government.

“At that time, Mr. President and deputies, they invented the Inter-American Democratic Charter to mark President Chávez permanently. But history turned upside down and the first time the Inter-American Democratic Charter was applied it was to support Chávez, because the people had come out to defend him in 2002,” he explained.

Medina explained that after the physical departure of Commander Chávez, “the process begins, as North American geopoliticians say, the second phase when you couldn't bring a people to their knees thinking that with the departure of Chávez we were going to give up, unilateral coercive measures began.”

He argued that in the face of the imperial blockade, the ICC was once again silent and never spoke out in rejection of this new attack, “it was up to the attorney general, of the International Criminal Court, even if he investigated case one, to also investigate case two. Because there are atrocious crimes they have committed against Venezuela,” he said.

He also recalled that the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, opened the doors to the ICC in Venezuela, “four technical meetings, virtual meetings, virtual video conferences, there has been one on the part of the National Government or the powers of the State, the Attorney General's Office”.

“There has been every willingness for honest cooperation, from the beginning, of good faith, because that is a distinction of the Venezuelan State, a distinction, therefore, taking into account the moment that Venezuela is experiencing, harassed, threatened by imperial power,” he said.

In this context, Medina noted that now the ICC has announced that it is withdrawing from Venezuela, so he questioned that they may not want to witness any US aggression against the country.

“They decide to retire the office they never occupied (...) they report that they are going to close the office, but they never occupied it. But why are they withdrawing it? Why do they decide not to send officials? At such a decisive moment in the history of Latin America, because they do not want to witness what could happen in Venezuela. If the aggression occurs or the aggression becomes evident, they are so cynical that they decide to close the office,” I emphasize.