Speaking on; “What are the challenges to the Cuban economy today?” Friday October 25th, 7PM 2969 Mission St San Francisco Donation requested, no one turned away for lack of funds This Bay Area event is co-sponsored by Task Force on the Americas, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Richmond Regla Friendship Committee, ANSWER Coalition, International Committee … Read More
August 21, 2019 VENEZUELAN EMBASSY PROTECTORS DEFENSE COMMITTEE CALLS ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST DEFENDERS Embassy Protectors Defense Committee IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2019 PRESS CONTACT: +1 856 219-0203 admin@defendembassyprotectors.org The newly formed Embassy Protectors Defense Committee created in response to the arrest and bogus charges leveled by the Trump Administration against the last four remaining activists of the … Read More
July 21, 2019 North American activists, calling themselves the Embassy Protection Collective, defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC from being usurped by representatives of the US-backed and unelected Juan Guaidó. The collective was acting with the permission of the democratically elected, legitimate government of Venezuela. For 37 days the collective bravely defended the embassy … Read More
Task Force on the America’s (https://taskforceamericas.org/) July 9, 2019 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s July 5 report on Venezuela echoes the US government’s talking points, which are designed to terminate Venezuela’s two-decade-old Bolivarian Revolution, without acknowledging Venezuela’s manifest accomplishments or even recognizing victims of US-backed rightwing violence in Venezuela. A more factual report … Read More
The blockade in context The U.S. has been pursuing a strategy of ‘regime change’ through destabilising Venezuela dating back to the early years of Hugo Chávez’s presidency. This led George W. Bush’s administration to support the failed coup d’état against Chávez in 2002 and also the right-wing management lock-out in the oil industry. The lock-out, … Read More