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].

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! Join us to witness, experience and learn from the resistance of the Venezuelan people to the illegal, coercive and unilateral “sanctions” of the United States government against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. 22…

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…

Venezuela & ALBA News 8.4.2023: New Sanctions Bills in Congress; Alex Saab Case at Brussels Peoples Summit; Delegation to Bolivia

RootsAction.org: Tell Congress to Cease Hostility Toward Venezuela A letter you can sign on and send to your Congressperson about S.995 – Venezuelan Democracy Act. This bill would sanction Venezuela until the government is overthrown. H.R.4086 / S.1931 – AFFECT Human Rights in Venezuela Act. This bill is designed to seek negative information on the Venezuelan government. That…

Venezuela & ALBA News 7.28.2023: ALBA Countries Celebrates July 26; New Economic Warfare Legislation proposed against Venezuela and Nicaragua

Open Democracy: EU talks show Latin America’s growing influence in global politics European representatives, acting as one, proposed that the final declaration include a rejection of Russia’s “aggression.” But they were faced with 33 countries from a very heterogeneous region that maintain diverse alliances with the powers involved in the war.. The final text does not…

Rally announcement: Celebrate and Defend the Sovereignty of Latin American and Caribbean Countries!

Sunday, July 16, 2 pm ET in front of the White House, Washington, DC Can’t make it? Watch our livestream! July is an important month for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean! July 19th is the anniversary of the Sandinista People’s Revolution in Nicaragua, AND the Third Takeover of Lima by the indigenous,…

Venezuela & ALBA News #460, 7.7.2023: Venezuela Condemns US and European Union Interference in Upcoming Elections; Biden Turns to Elliot Abrams

Resumen Latinoamericano: Why Europe, U.S., China and Russia are not the same for Latin America We Latin Americans have a very well-documented history of colonization, exploitation, and occupation with Europeans and North Americans, but not with China and Russia. It was not the Russians or the Chinese who implemented Plan Condor in South America, which left…