Join AFGJ for Venezuela Solidarity Network’s next Monthly Webinar/Online Picket Thursday, October 24 at 4 pm PT / 6 pm CT / 7 pm ET Join us for a conversation with Oscar Schemel, Electoral Consultant and President of one of Venezuela’s most credible polling firms, Hinterlaces. We’ll discuss the electoral outcome and the broader context…
Primitiva Guarachi is a member of Bolivia’s largest women’s confederation, Bartolina Sisa. She was recently elected as the head of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in the Department of Cochabamba, among the first elected women leaders of the MAS. Guarachi discusses the role of Indigenous women’s movements and institutionalization of women’s political participation in…
Saint Louis XVI is the Human Rights Coordinator of the Haitian-Venezuelan organization National Front of Sister Nations and lawyer specializing in international human rights law and geopolitics. He discusses the root causes of Haiti’s instability today and its sustained resistance, from its overthrow of French imperial rule to its struggles against imperialist aggression and interventionism,…
Join us to study the legacy of Bolivia’s plurinational movement and learn why Bolivia is a global leader in climate justice Bolivia is one of the few nation-states in the world with a dynamic plurinational movement. Likewise, Bolivia is commended for being a global leader in climate justice. This is no coincidence: Indigenous movements are…
Braulio Álvarez is a well-known community leader and National Assembly member in Venezuela, where he serves on the Finance Committee. He has been the target of multiple assassination attempts against peasant leaders reclaiming collective ownership of land. Álvarez discusses the legacy of the Bolivarian Revolution and empowerment of the rural working class formative to…
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 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: 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…
* 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…
An Alliance for Global Justice delegation met with former political prisoner and Venezuela’s Investments Head Alex Saab in Caracas, in the days preceding the July 28 presidential election. We discussed Venezuela’s booming economic recovery, projections for the presidential election, unilateral coercive measures and the United States’ criminalization of humanitarian aid. We thank Pacifica Foundation TV…
