Webinar audio (English) all4globaljust · April 15 webinar: Armed Conflict on the Venezuela-Colombia Border: The Battle of Apure Webinar recording (Spanish Audio) Check out the write up at Orinoco Tribune: Mayor of La Victoria: ‘Colombian Paramilitary Gangs Use Robin Hood Modus Operandi to Engage with Locals’ Webinar Announcement: The armed aggression of…
Venezuela
The United States government, especially under the Trump regime, has made completely clear that one of its top foreign policy priorities is to depose the democratically-elected government of Venezuela and to replace it with one that will open Venezuela’s vast oil reserves to exploitation by US transnational oil companies. An April 2019 report estimated that, at that time, civilian deaths caused by US-imposed unilateral sanctions had caused 40,000 preventable deaths. As the US efforts have repeatedly failed to foment a coup in favor of a government led by Juan Guaido, who has never run for national office, the Trump regime is attempting to cut off Venezuela’s access to international markets, the financial system, and it is targeting food distribution and threatening direct military action.
Historically the Alliance for Global Justice has played a role coordinating US solidarity with Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution that blossomed with the election of deceased President Hugo Chavez who took office in 1999. In 2007 we organized a national conference which resulted in the formation of the Venezuela Solidarity Network which unfortunately did not survive the Great Recession in 2009. In 2014, when the first guarimbas – violent demonstrations in the wealthy neighborhoods of Caracas – began and the US Congress and Obama regime began considering unilateral sanctions, we pulled together the Venezuela Strategy Group (VSG) composed of solidarity groups and individuals with foreign policy expertise, to build and coordinate US solidarity and anti-intervention activities. We also publish the Venezuela Weekly compilation of links to important articles and videos.
In 2018 individuals who had recently traveled to Venezuela formed the End US and Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela campaign which affiliated with the VSG as a working group. Other VSG Working Groups are: Media and Pledge of Resistance.
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Venezuela, Venezuela & ALBA Weekly Newsletter
Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 4.23.2021: More on the Colombia-Venezuela Border Conflict; Cuban Communist Party Congress
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Venezuela, Venezuela & ALBA Weekly Newsletter
Venezuela & ALBA News 3.12.2021: Hugo Chavez; threat to Ecuador election; Nicaragua’s foreign agents law; webinars
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Alba countries, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Venezuela, Webinars
[Video] Recent Latin American Elections Repudiate Neoliberalism — Feb 25 webinar with Alex Main of CEPR
In this webinar which occurred on February 25, 2021 with Alex Main addresses the implications for the Americas of the recent elections in Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, as well as the coming elections in Chile and Peru. He discusses how US policy towards Latin America may be affected by a new US president. Alex…
Democracy, Venezuela
Open Report from the Venezuela Elections
The following is the introduction to an Election Report written by independent election observers during the December 6th elections in Venezuela. AfGJ assisted and encouraged the observers to participate. On December 5, 2020 I traveled to Venezuela as an independent international election observer for the National Assembly Elections in Venezuela. I was accompanied by two…
Venezuela, Webinars
Bolivarian Venezuela’s Struggle for Food Sovereignty under the US Blockade with William Camacaro
This webinar is part of our monthly Venezuela webinar series co-sponsored by Alberto Lovera Bolliviar Circle of New York, Alliance for Global Justice, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Orinoco Tribune, Task for on the Americas, and Frente para la Defense de los Pueblos Hugo Chavez (Canada). If you have topics you’d like to be explored or speakers…
Venezuela, Webinars
COHA Webinar Venezuela-Iran: A natural alliance in the face of illegal sanctions
Co-sponsored by CodePink | Alliance for Global Justice | Popular Resistance | Black Alliance for Peace With Dan Kovalik (USA) and Foad Izadi (Iran) Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) January 12, 2021 2pm-3pm US Eastern Time By Zoom and Facebook Live ZOOM Registration: https://www.coha.org/coha-webinar-venezuela-iran-a-natural-alliance-in-the-face-of-illegal-sanctions/ The United States is imposing illegal sanctions against both Venezuela and Iran,…
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Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 1.1.2021 Venezuela Moves to Counter US-backed Rightwing Terrorism War
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Venezuela, Venezuela & ALBA Weekly Newsletter
Venezuela & ALBA News 12.11.2020 Venezuela Election: Never-ending US Regime Change Suffers Another Defeat
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Democracy, Venezuela
Webinar: Venezuela Votes in Defiance of US Calls for Election Boycott: The Meaning of the Results
Join us for analysis of the December 6th election results for the Venezuelan National Assembly by two on-the-ground observers: Jesus Rodriguez Espinoza, editor of Orinoco Tribune in Caracas, and Venezuelan-American activist William Camacaro from Valencia, Venezuela. Jesus is the former Venezuelan Consul General to Chicago. William is with the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New…