The UIB warns that the kidnapping of Maduro represents the "dismantling of the international order"
STEI also expressed itself in the same vein this Monday.
PalmThe University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) condemned the detention of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro by the United States as a kidnapping and asserted that it is a further step in the "process of dismantling the international order" based on "dialogue, cooperation, and respect for national sovereignty." In a statement released this Monday, the public university explained that "the bombings perpetrated against a sovereign state, Venezuela, as well as the kidnapping of its head of state, cannot be interpreted as an isolated incident, but rather as a step in the process of dismantling the international order." The university pointed out that, after two world conflicts that caused millions of deaths, states decided to establish "an international system based on dialogue, cooperation, respect for national sovereignty, the protection of human rights, and the prohibition of the use of force."
"The creation of the United Nations was precisely a response to the desire to preserve these principles and guarantee peaceful coexistence among states," it stated. The UIB believes that in recent years there has been not only "repeated violations of these norms, but also deliberate and systematic attempts to dismantle the international system that upholds them." "For all these reasons, the UIB condemns the violation of international law and human rights in Venezuela, Ukraine, Palestine, Sudan, and throughout the world, and reiterates its call for strict respect for international law," it concluded.
The STEI condemns the military aggression
The union has also expressed its rejection of this act of force, directed against the territory and civilian population of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which constitutes an attack on world peace, a criminal transgression of international law and a direct threat to the foundations of sovereign coexistence between states.
The STEI considers that this armed offensive represents a historical regression towards colonial practices, due to the attempt to subdue a sovereign nation by violence and plunder its strategic resources, in a flagrant violation of the Charter of the United Nations and the proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean.
It also highlights the concern about the escalation of interventionism that ignores the right of peoples to forge their political, economic and social destiny, free from all external coercion and threats; countries that are on a list of Trump's "enemies".
