With the slogan "For a new world", the festival will be held from January 9 to 11 in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, where around 2,000 delegates from more than 100 countries will participate.
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By Katherin Hormigó Rubio, translated from the Spanish
The land of "The Liberator" Simón Bolívar and Commander Hugo Chávez Frías, saw the arrival January 9 of 102 representatives of the Cuban delegation, including leaders, parliamentarians, young people, artists, intellectuals and athletes who will participate in the World International Antifascist Festival.
Cuba will also stand with the Venezuelan people this week, as Nicolás Maduro takes office as president, after his re-election on July 28.
Under the slogan "For a New World", the festival will be held from January 9 to 11 in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, where around 2,000 guests from more than 100 countries participate.
This event was created as a result of proposals made during the World Congress of Antifascist Youth and Students, in November 2024.
All for Venezuela
The Cuban participants arrived at the "La Carlota" Convention Center, and on behalf of the people of the island, categorically rejected the coup maneuvers against the legitimate government of President Nicolás Maduro and showed their unwavering solidarity with the sister Venezuelan nation and with its Bolivarian Revolution, an essential pillar in the struggle for the emancipation of Our America.
With slogans of "Everything for Venezuela" and "Cuba is with Venezuela", the representatives of Cuba reaffirmed that the Bolivarian people are not alone, their cause is also Cuba's.
In La Carlota, Cubans raised their flag saying that homeland is humanity, aware that we can only save ourselves if humanity is saved; that we can only be free if we make humanity free.
The opening words of the festival were made by the Venezuelan Vice President, Delcy Rodríguez, who urged immediate action against fascism, warning that if they do not act, the peoples of the world will disappear and only the corporations will remain.
"There is no time to lose or delay, it is time that humanity come together to fight against fascism," Rodriguez warned, while expressing her solidarity with the nations that fight against this form of totalitarian government in the world, especially the Palestinian people to whom she paid honors while rejecting the "normalization" of their genocide.
During her speech, before almost 2,000 international delegates, the Vice President expressed her concern about the neo-fascist network expanding in 17 European countries, with 726 organizations, pointing out that each era has its own fascism based on the development of the capitalist model.
She also added that "that same fascist network that today plagues the European peoples is also found in America, with a strong presence in Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United States, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Mexico and Venezuela."
Faced with this situation, she stressed the importance of continuing to spread the anti-fascist movement and weave together the networks at a time when "fascism intends to take over all scales of humanity."
Rodríguez explained that technological advances have allowed the exponential spread of this ideology, so she urged everyone to seek out correct information and to face the challenges imposed by social networks and artificial intelligence that are being used as tools to carry out a "cyberfascist coup" and establish colonial control at a global level.
During her speech, she also highlighted the solidarity of the Cuban people with the Bolivarian nation and with the peoples of the Americas, as well as their constant struggle to defend their sovereignty as an example for all the countries of the world.
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