[R-G] In repudiation of the reestablishment of the US Navy Fourth Fleet

[PCdoB - Secretaria de Relações Internacionais]

In repudiation of the reestablishment of the US Navy Fourth Fleet 
 

- Resolution approved by the 10th Meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB)

 

 

The government of the United States declared that the first operation of the restored US Fourth Fleet will take place in July. Created in 1943 in the occasion of World War II and dissolved in 1950, the now resurrected Fourth Fleet is aimed at “fighting terrorism”, “illicit activities” and “defending the interests of the United States” in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a communiqué issued by the Pentagon.

 

The Communist Party of Brazil repudiates the restoration of the US Fourth Fleet as another aggressive action towards the independent peoples and countries of South America, Central America and the Caribbean, a severe threat to peace, security, freedom and sovereignty of those peoples and nations. It is a decision marked by the belligerent standards of the American imperialism, based on the neo-fascist concepts of permanent and preventive wars. The reestablishment of the Fourth Fleet stimulates the militarization of the Latin American continent, the arms race and the nuclear threat, since it will be equipped with aircraft carriers loaded with nuclear weapons. 

 

That measure is destined to intimidate the progressive governments in the region. Latin America is now in a moment of increasing democracy with governments that resist the neo-liberal and imperialist rule. In a broad sense, the new political circumstances are clearly anti-imperialist. The announcement made by President George W. Bush, now approaching the end of his mandate, is a reaction to the United South American Nations’ desire to create a Security Council and take place in a moment when huge oil reserves are being discovered in the Brazilian coastal special economic zone. 

 

The Communist Party of Brazil supports the position taken by Brazilian and Venezuelan Presidents Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and Hugo Chavez of demanding explanations by the United States’ government regarding the creation of the Fourth Fleet. Moreover, in consonance with the deep patriotic feelings of the Brazilian Peoples and our Latin-American and Caribbean brothers, PCdoB calls the democratic and progressive forces, the organizations of international solidarity and peace movements and social movements to start a campaign against the reestablishment of the Fourth Fleet by means of communiqués and demonstrations. 

 

 

São Paulo, July 5, 2008

 

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazil

 

 

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