More than the lack of some food and medical and medical supplies, we are concerned about the very real possibility that capitalist industry may triumph in Venezuela. This means losing the greatest social security, wages and education we have ever had. In the mirror of the future we can see the mass layoffs by the new Argentine government, the elimination of the Ministry of Culture by the new Brazilian government, both governments rule as totalitarians.
Given the concerns of our friends around the whole world, we say that every day is a day of resistance, of worry, and of work to defend the bond of solidarity that is confronted with so much exacerbated individualism, confronted with so much speculation over the present situation, and so much nervousness about the future. Every day we need to renew our hopes to safeguard the memory of what has been achieved in justice and dignity, to avoid the temptation to look back and become pillars of salt. We need to restore confidence in humanity itself and the other forms of collective power. It is an urgent task to keep reinventing politics and public policies in their various forms in favor of history's forgotten peoples, today defeated by the economic and media war. We cannot lose in the quest for a better and more just, sisterly world.
Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Venezuela. Caracas, May 17, 2016.
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