Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee

The Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Venezuela describe the day-to-day resistance: “We live under a financial dictatorship, under an ongoing business coup – they do not produce enough because they do not want to, because they wish to see us Chavistas defeated”.

The best thing that the United States government could do with regard to Venezuela, regardless of political outcomes there, would be to end its intervention there.

“Imperialism’s assault on the Bolivarian Revolution is multifaceted. Now calls for OAS intervention are being heard. it is our responsibility to defend the sovereignty and self-determination of Venezuela against imperialist intervention,” writes Alison Bodine from the Fire This Time Venezuela Solidarity Campaign.

Desirée Cabrera: Mother of 19-month-old baby when her child was in a day care center in her government office building, that was attacked and burned by violent right-wing demonstrators. 89 babies were in that center.     Luis Durán: Luis Durán – Father of Elvis Rafael Durán, 29 year old worker who died on Feb. 21, 2014, beheaded by galvanized

Watch this short documentary about the violent protests of 2014, led by the right-wing after Venezuela’s municipal elections, which caused the deaths of 43 people and injured hundreds. These attacks, called “guarimbas”, tried to overthrow the democratically-elected government of President Nicólas Maduro. A guarimba consists of blocking public roads with barricades made of barbed wire, tires, mattresses, and hanging galvanized

In their latest attempt to topple the democratically elected government of Venezuela, right-wing forces are mobilizing to revoke President Nicholas Maduro’s presidential mandate. Rallying behind far right politicians and sworn enemies of the Bolivarian government, Henrique Capriles and Freddy Guevara, opposition organizers are attempting to gather tens of thousands of signatures to recall Maduro and undo 17 years of revolution.