Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee

Gloria La Riva interviewed Rafael Argotti, a university professor and member of the Bolivarian Movement of Engineers and Technologists, in Caracas on March 9 during the second blackout. Despite the massive blackout, tens of thousands of Venezuelans continue to mobilize. Video in Spanish with English subtitles.

In an interview with AP on Feb. 14, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro talks (in Spanish) about the phony U.S. offer of “humanitarian aid”. The interview was aired on Venezuela’s VTV channel. A partial transcript accompanies the video.

50 countries came together at the United Nations in defense of Venezuela based on the principles of the UN Charter – including respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination, the sovereignty of UN member nations, refraining from the threat of use of force, respect for the territorial integrity of other states, and non-intervention in internal, domestic matters of another state.

The San Francisco Labor Council voted to denounce U.S. intervention and the attempted coup in Venezuela, and to endorse Feb. 23, March 9, and March 31 Bay Area actions against intervention, as well as the March 16 National March on the White House.

Gloria La Riva talks to Venezuelans who reject U.S. intervention. “Whatever problems exist in Venezuela, we Venezuelans will resolve them.”

The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns the escalation of pressures and actions by the U.S. government in preparation for a military adventure under the guise of a “humanitarian intervention” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and calls on the international community to mobilize in order to prevent its consummation.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro calls on U.S. society to denounce its government’s threats of war. “Today Venezuela is united in a single clamor: we demand the end of aggression that seeks to suffocate our economy and socially suffocate our people, as well as the end of serious and dangerous threats of military intervention against Venezuela. We appeal to the good soul of U.S. society, a victim of its own leaders, to join our call for peace, let us be all one people against warmongering and war.”

Gloria La Riva, who is on her way to Venezuela to report on the situation there, talks to RT International about the phony “US humanitarian aid” scandal. Click through to watch the video.