Respect for Democracy Campaign

New State Department Video Celebrates Monroe Doctrine! Support HRes. 1056 to Annul the Doctrine!

On August 11, 2026, last Tuesday, the US State Department released a video, narrated by US Ambassador to Panama Kevin Merino Cabrera, reviewing the history of the famous 1823 statement by President James Monroe known as the Monroe Doctrine. The video glorifies the Doctrine, not the early Monroe Doctrine, which merely declared the Western Hemisphere…

Take action to oppose new and existing sanctions on Venezuela!

Venezuela is the fifth most sanctioned country in the world, and it has cost the country dearly. 40,000 to 100,000 people are estimated to have died from lack of food, medicines, clean drinking water and other basic necessities caused by unilateral coercive measures (“sanctions”) the U.S. has imposed since the Obama Administration. The Biden Administration…

Two months since Election Day: celebrating democracy in Venezuela

Alliance for Global Justice has been on the ground with social movements in Venezuela since the July 28 elections. Check out some of our latest footage and reports below. The Bolivarian Militia of #Venezuela mobilizes to defend their democracy 🇻🇪 Check out our latest interview with Captain Felipe Daniel Arce of the Militia’s Valles del…

While the U.S. neglects democracy at home, self-determination prevails in Venezuela despite attacks to the electoral system

AFGJ has been in the ground with social movements since the people of Venezuela elected United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) candidate Nicolás Maduro. We saw hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans flood the streets of Caracas and hundreds of cities across the country to show the world who voted for Maduro. William Camacaro (National Co-Coordinator…

Alliance for Global Justice stands for democracy in Venezuela, rejects U.S. destabilization attempts

Alliance for Global Justice congratulates Venezuela for a clear, transparent, consistent and peaceful electoral process implemented on July 28. We also congratulate President Nicolás Maduro on his re-election and the Venezuelan National Electoral Council (CNE) for administering a free and fair election. We denounce reports by hostile foreign governments and corporate media sources aligned with…

Communique (August 2, 2024): Alliance for Global Justice delegation reports back on accompaniment of July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela

Communique: For immediate release Media contact: William Camacaro, Alliance for Global Justice Email: william@afgj.org Phone: +1 (202) 540-8336 Ext. 501 We are a group of 17 citizens of various countries living in the United States, Canada and Costa Rica who visited Venezuela from July 21-31, 2024 to learn about the Bolivarian Revolution underway since 1999, to accompany the…

Statement on the 2024 Venezuela’s Presidential Election

* On July 28, 2024, Nicolás Maduro was elected president of Venezuela for a third term. With 51.20 percent of votes in favor, the National Electoral Council announced Maduro’s victory in a contest in which nearly 59 percent of the electorate participated. Meanwhile, despite their defeat, Edmundo González and María Corina Machado -disqualified from running…

Chargé D’affaires to the U.S. Lautaro Sandino at the Resist NATO Summit in Washington, DC

Nicaragua’s Chargé D’affaires to the U.S. Lautaro Sandino joined hundreds of activists on July 6-8, 2024 as a special guest to the Resist NATO Summit and 6th International Conference of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform in Washington, DC. In his keynote speech to the Resist NATO Summit, Sandino discusses 45 years of the Sandinista Revolution, international…

15 years after the coup in Honduras: What does solidarity look like now?

by the Honduras Solidarity Network June 28, 2024 is the 15th anniversary of the 2009 right-wing military & political coup in Honduras that overthrew the democratically elected president, Manuel (Mel) Zelaya. On June 28, 2009, Zelaya was targeted for his vision of an independent Honduras, a part of the Latin American movement, “looking South not…

AFGJ condemns the attempted military coup in Bolivia and commends the Arce Administration for its swift action to restore popular democracy

Alliance for Global Justice congratulates the Arce Administration for its swift action to restore popular democracy in Bolivia just hours after its National Army surrounded the Palacio Quemado with tanks and armored vehicles during a Cabinet meeting, calling for the resignation of the President and the entire Cabinet. The effort was led by Commander Juan…