VENEZUELA IS A FIELD OF CONCENTRATION WHERE EXTERMINATION IS COMMITTED, DENOUNCES VENEZUELAN BISHOP
"BISHOP JAIME VILLARROEL, BISHOP OF CARÚPANO IN VENEZUELA, DENOUNCED THAT THE COUNTRY, UNDER THE REGIME OF PRESIDENT NICOLÁS MADURO, "IS A CONCENTRATION CAMP WHERE THE SAME VENEZUELANS ARE BEING EXTERMINATED."
This was stated at a press conference in Mexico City, on October 31, on the last day of his testimonial visit to the country by the Pontifical Foundation Aid to the Church in Need. From October 24 to 31, Bishop Villarroel visited Guadalajara, Puebla, Apatzingán, Querétaro and Mexico City, encouraging Catholics and the international community to help Venezuela.
"THE VENEZUELAN PEOPLE, POINTED OUT, "CAN NOT LEAVE THIS SITUATION ALONE"
"Venezuela is a concentration camp where the same Venezuelans are being exterminated, understanding what a concentration camp is in Nazi Germany: where they took the Jews to die in the gas chamber." "This regime that Nicolás Maduro presides over today in Venezuela is committing an extermination, killing our people of hunger, for lack of medicines," he added.
For the Venezuelan bishop, in his country "a tragedy is being committed in unimaginable dimensions".
"Venezuela is tortured," he said, adding that cases have already been filed before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court against the Venezuelan government. Bishop Villarroel assured that the problem began in 1999, with the arrival of Hugo Chávez to power.
"We do not vote with common sense or with reason, and this has led to a tragedy where thousands and thousands of Venezuelans are dying because of lack of food and lack of medicine and where human rights are constantly violated." "Today 80% of the industries are destroyed," he said, and lamented that "last month inflation was at 270%. There are few products. "
"The minimum salary for a Venezuelan for a month is between 4 and 6 dollars. With 4 and 6 dollars a family has to feed their children with a month. " With that money, he said, a worker in Venezuela could buy just "three or four products: an egg carton, a kilo of rice, a packet of flour and some meat. And there is not enough to buy more. " "There are homes where only food is a little rice all day," he said.
Bishop Villarroel said that in 2017 "more than 20,000 newborn children died, because there are no conditions to take care of the mothers when they are going to give birth. Many mothers have to give birth in the corridors of the hospital. 60% of mothers who have given birth have died in childbirth. "
"HOSPITALS DO NOT GET COTTON, GAS, ALCOHOL"
In addition, the media "are totally controlled by the government", and are dedicated to the "propaganda that tries to show that in Venezuela everything is prosperous, that nothing is missing, that all Venezuelans live well".
The Maduro government has also launched various attacks against the Catholic Church, he said. Among them, threats and paintings in temples, and "have tried to create a 'reformed Catholic Church,' nationalist," with ministers from other Christian denominations and Catholic priests who left the ministry.
"THE GOVERNMENT OF NICOLÁS MADURO IS BURLÓ DE LA SANTA SEDE"
The Venezuelan bishop recalled that "the Vatican was asked for mediation two years ago" between the government and its main opponents.
In these dialogues, he said, "the apostolic nuncio was there, the papal delegate, Mons. (Claudio Maria) Celli, and they reached agreements, and the fundamental agreements were these: to open a humanitarian channel for food and medicine to arrive, to allow that the political prisoners be freed - there are more than 2,000 people detained just for the sake of dissent - and allow for elections where there is really an international observation and where the Venezuelan people can truly express themselves. "
"The government of Nicolás Maduro mocked the Holy See, trampled all the help of the Holy See, mocking the Holy Father," he criticized.
Bishop Villarroel also complained that Maduro's government treats Venezuelans "like some criminals" and recalled the case of a priest who was intercepted and harassed by authorities at an airport.
"He was arrested at the international airport in Venezuela. He presented the credentials. They stripped him naked, they defecated him, they told him that he was a person suspected of carrying drugs, they took him from the airport, he lost the plane, he stole the money he was carrying. "
"SOLIDARITY AND TRAINING: THE WORK OF THE CHURCH"
The Bishop of Carúpano stressed that in addition to the solidarity work carried out by the Church in Venezuela, they also dedicate themselves to "formation in the social doctrine of the Church, formation in conscience, formation so that people do not allow themselves to be manipulated or deceived by a totalitarian system, by a system that is killing our people. "
"The Pope has told us thanks for that, for being close. He also thanked us for being a Church in resistance, they are resisting there the insults, the blows, the scorn, the threats of the same government towards us bishops, and towards all those who in one way or another are part of the Church " .
The Prelate also stressed that in the midst of all the crisis in Venezuela, the Church has remained united.
"Pastors of the Church have always remained united, with one voice, with only one criterion. What I am saying here is not the perception of a person, it is not a perception of a single bishop but the perception of the episcopate in Venezuela. I speak on behalf of the entire episcopate, "he said.
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this is exactly what is planned for the west after the economic collapse. 90% of people will eke out an existence while the rich are protected by martial law.
only way to fight it is to be prepared to work - growing food, running small industry etc. and using gold and silver for currency again!
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