Venezuela: 10 years commemorating Chávez’s Legacy Come with us to Venezuela to celebrate the legacy of President Chávez and learn first-hand what these ten years have meant for the Bolivarian revolution Among our activities, we will visit the communities of Ciudad Caribia, Petare, and El Hatillo and meet with the community councils, street leaders, CLAP, and peasant…
Professor Nils Melzer, UN Rapporteur on Torture, wrote a book about the illegal extradition procedures against Julian Assange and demonstrated the breakdown of the rule of law in the US, UK, Sweden and Ecuador. The case of Ambassador Alex Saab is no less scandalous, because here the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and multiple…
William Camacaro, Venezuelan-American, National Co-Coordinator It is now a year since the culmination of a 16 month-long pseudo-legal process which shredded the façade of the legal system in the micro-archipelago ten island state which makes up the Republic of Cape Verde. October 16, 2021, saw the Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab forcibly removed from Cape…
The VSC AGM took place on the 8th October 2022. Submitted by the VSC Executive Committee. This AGM Notes: 1)Alex Saab was arrested in Cape Verde (12 June 2020) by orders from the United States whilst carrying out official duties as a diplomat of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. This constitutes a grave violation of international…
The arrest and kidnapping of Alex Saab on June 12th, 2020 is a violation of international law executed by Cape Verdean authorities, at the request of the United States, despite lacking an INTERPOL Red Notice, an arrest warrant violating his diplomatic immunity. Subsequently, the U.S. requested his extradition on June 29th, 2020, and on October…
Alex Saab: A Kidnapped Diplomat – Movie Trailer This coming September 16 we will premiere the movie Alex Saab, a diplomat kidnapped for evading the illegal, unilateral and coercive sanctions of the United States against the Venezuelan people. Free Alex Saab! The movement to defend Venezuela’s sovereignty. Six Keys to Understanding the Illegal Arrest of…
About The Workers’ Summit of the Americas is a workers’ conference that calls for the programmatic unity of the working class and social movements to create a permanent forum for solidarity and the linking of anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal struggles in the American continent. The Summit will be held in Tijuana, Mexico to counteract the Summit…
About The Workers’ Summit of the Americas is a workers’ conference that calls for the programmatic unity of the working class and social movements to create a permanent forum for solidarity and the linking of anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal struggles in the American continent. The Summit will be held in Tijuana, Mexico to counteract the Summit…
By Margaret Kimberley (Executive Editor and Senior Columnist, Black Agenda Report) The words human rights are used quite frequently but conditions around the world prove that they are rarely taken seriously. The United States, which claims to be a protector of human rights, has more people imprisoned, some two million, than any other country on…
February 14, 2022 My name is Oscar Lopez Rivera, I’m a former Puerto Rican political prisoner who spent 36 years in prison in the United States for fighting against the colonial status of my country. Having suffered all kinds of abuse while incarcerated, I can understand the critical situation that Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab is…
