By: Antonio García, First Comandante of the ELN
On January 22, the UN condemned the violence unleashed in El Catatumbo, reproducing the biased version that blames the ELN for the entire conflict, despite the fact that there are at least two parties involved: the ELN and the so-called 33rd Front of the extinct FARC. In reality, there are many more actors involved, given that the 33rd Front collaborates with – and is protected by – the National Army, which receives its orders from the Pentagon and the US intelligence services.
A few days earlier, on January 13, the same UN, through its Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, asked the Colombian government and the ELN to restore the bilateral ceasefire, which has been suspended since August 2024.
“I call on the parties to establish a new ceasefire as soon as possible, with a robust monitoring and verification mechanism and a sufficiently broad scope to improve the security of conflict-affected communities,” Guterres said.
We are talking about the same UN that has done nothing to pressure Israel to stop the 15-month campaign of genocide and war of extermination of the Palestinian people. Within the same UN, a ceasefire was vetoed four times in the Security Council. The UN that had nothing to do with the current ceasefire, between the Zionist entity and the Palestinian resistance. That did not lift a finger when the Zionists bombed civilian buildings in Lebanon for more than 50 days, or when they tried to occupy the south of the country.
In 1999, NATO dropped 27,000 tons of bombs and missiles over 78 days to “liberate Yugoslavia.” In the face of that massacre, the UN maintained a complicit silence, endorsing the “humanitarian intervention” of the then government of Bill Clinton.
The UN that approved the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003, which left more than a million civilians dead, with a toll of one million dead for each war. The UN that approved the invasion and bombing of Libya in 2011, which destroyed the state forever, leaving it in the hands of warlords, all at the service of the interests of the Collective West.
The UN protests against Russia’s military alliance with North Korea, but remains silent in the face of Kiev’s military alliance with the United States and all of NATO, with the massive transfer of money and weapons for the war against Russia.
It is silent in the face of the policy of encirclement, attacks, sanctions, blockade, freezing and theft of Russian assets that exceed 300 billion dollars.
The UN has said nothing related to the 800 US bases of which a significant percentage surround Russia, ranging from the Baltic countries to Turkey, through Africa, Asia and Latin America; bases that in West Asia have served to support the aggressions against Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The Security Council witnessed yet another dark page in which the United States used the veto arbitrarily and shamefully, and for the fourth time in a row, since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza more than four months ago.
The League of Nations, the prototype of the UN, founded in 1920 after World War I, was never able to prevent the rise of Nazism and prevent World War II. There is a reason why former U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge once characterized the League of Nations as “a diabolical creation with an angelic name.”
After that war, the League of Nations temporarily disappeared, re-emerging again in 1946 as the United Nations (UN) with headquarters in New York and thus became an unconditional ally and subordinate of North America, endorsing with its silence or consent the invasions of the United States to Panama (1918, 1920, 1925, 1958, 1989), Cuba (1917-1933), Dominican Republic (1965-1966), Cuba (1917-1933), Honduras (1919, 1924-1925), Philippines (1948, 1924-1925), Russia (1918-1922), Yugoslavia (1999), Guatemala (1920, 1954, 1966-1967), El Salvador (1932), Iran (1946, 1954), Greece (1946-1947), Vietnam (1960-1975), Egypt (1956), Lebanon (1958, 1982-1984), Laos (1962, 1971-1973), Cambodia (1969-1975), Grenada (1983-1984), Somalia (1992-1994), Afghanistan (2002-2021), Iraq (1958, 1990, 2003-continues to this day).
The League of Nations was the materialization of the international order imposed on the victors of World War I: the old European empires. At the same time, the UN represents the international order because of the victor of World War II: the American empire, which sealed its victory by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan. The law of the victor, and never that of the vanquished.
The liberal global institutionality, which emerged after the Second World War, has become completely innocuous and has entered into absolute bankruptcy.
The recent history of Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, West Asia, and Eastern Europe testifies that only resistance — and not pacts with outdated institutions — is capable of creating changes in the global order. In a world dominated by power, weakness invites exploitation; The capacity for resistance is the only language that the powerful and their institutions understand. Resistance is not simply an option, it is a necessity, a guarantee of survival.
The lies of the media matrix will be defeated by the truth. In the future, the truth awaits us all.
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