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.

How You Can Get Educated and Involved

The Alliance for Global Justice currently publishes the Venezuela/ALBA Weekly every Friday. Subscribe Here or read it every week on our web page.

Sign up for the Alliance for Global Justice Alerts to receive notification of the monthly Venezuela webinar plus other webinars, and mobilizations.

AfGJ is a member of the Campaign to End US & Canada Sanctions Against Venezuela. The campaign invites you and/or your organization to endorse this call against the illegal, unjust and cruel sanctions being inflicted on the people of Venezuela.

Join the Pledge of Resistance pledging to take direct action or support those who do risk arrest in the event the US invades Venezuela or foments a coup.

If you are interested in representing your organization in the Venezuela Strategy Group or being a participant in a working group, send an email to [email protected].

Venezuela & ALBA News 9.22.2023: Speeches of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, China, and Russia at G77 and UN General Assembly

Cuban President Diaz-Canel speech at the UN General Assembly on behalf of the G77 at the Summit on the Sustainable Development Goals Today 735 million people face chronic hunger, more than in 2015. At the current pace, none of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals will be met and more than half of the agreed targets…

Alex Saab: From Venezuelan Diplomat to Political Prisoner, a webinar with Roger Waters

I saw Alex and he looked really tired. The last time he vomited blood was 2 weeks ago, and although he reported it, he still hasn’t been seen by a doctor. So he doesn’t know if his cancer is still in remission. AUDREY BOMSE, National Lawyers Guild, Miami   Alex Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat kidnapped…

Venezuela & ALBA News 9.8.2023: Maduro, A Decade of Continuing Chavez’ Socialist Anti-Imperialist Struggle

Francisco Dominguez: A Decade Continuing Chavez’ Socialist Anti-Imperialist Struggle A pamphlet by the leader of Venezuela Solidarity Campaign UK. This reviews the non-stop US overt and covert warfare, including murderous economic warfare, to overthrow the Venezuelan revolution. Dominguez points out that the Maduro and the Chavista movement have withstood everything the US threw at them and…

Venezuela & ALBA News 9.01.2023: Venezuela Prepares for Right-Wing Election Violence; new film on Nicaragua

Venezuela Venezuelanalysis: Opposition Begins Primary Race as Far Right Threatens ‘Military Rebellion’ President Maduro announced the mobilization of “Peace Squads” in order to prevent the outbreak of violence by the opposition. The race to select the opposition’s candidate in the upcoming presidential elections in Venezuela officially began amid threats of a “military rebellion” by a…

Delegation announcement! Venezuela: Celebrating 22 Years of Sovereignty and Popular Power

22 years after the U.S.-backed coup against President Hugo Chávez, we’ll be in Venezuela to support the Bolivarian Revolution and say: No Volverán! This delegation is an opportunity to witness, experience and learn about the resistance of the Venezuelan people to the illegal, coercive and unilateral “sanctions” of the United States government against the Bolivarian Republic…

Venezuela & ALBA News 8. 25.2023: Chavistas Prepare for a new Election Period Coup Attempt

Ultima Noticias: Diosdado Cabello: People Organized in Peace Squads to be Ready for Future Right-wing Election Violence  Cabello assured that every time there are elections the opposition disguises itself and repeats the same attack pattern, “as well as the same results,” he added. “We must preserve peace and the unity of the revolutionary force; the…

Webinar announcement: Intro to Ecosocialism & Report-Back from the Second Encounter of the First Ecosocialist International in Venezuela

Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 4 pm PT / 6 pm CT / 7 pm ET & Caracas Co-sponsored by Orinoco Tribune & Anticonquista Register here In times of global nightmares, one hundred delegates from five continents gathered in the maroon municipality of Veroes, Yaracuy State, Venezuela and made a pact with Mother Earth, registering…

Venezuela & ALBA News 8.18.2023: 2.5 Million march in support of Venezuela government; US Organized 11 Military Invasion Exercises in Latin America so far in 2023

Venezuela Ultima Noticias: Two and a half million people have mobilized in support of the President In recent weeks, more than two million people have mobilized in favor of the Maduro administration. “From August 07 to 13, there were 43 mobilizations in which more than 102 people participated,” he said. “There is a mobilized and…

U.S. delays Alex Saab’s trial until June 2024

More than 180 human rights organizations worldwide call for a political solution to Alex Saab’s imprisonment The judicial delay is used as a weapon by the policy of the United States in the cases of political prisoners in that country. The case of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, arbitrarily detained since June 12, 2020, is no…

Venezuela & ALBA News 8.11.2023: 180 Human Rights Organizations Letter to Biden to Free Alex Saab; Cuban CP and Venezuela PSUV Sign Cooperation Agreement

Venezuela Orinoco Tribune: Portugal’s Novo Banco Ordered to Return $1.5 Billion to Venezuela Venezuelan authorities have announced that Portuguese courts have ruled in favor of Venezuela and ordered Novo Banco to return $1.5 billion illegally seized from accounts belonging to the Venezuelan government, following the failed 2019 US-led regime change operation that attempted to oust…