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SOLIDARITY activists welcomed the launch of a pamphlet to mark Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s first decade in office at Bolivar Hall on Wednesday night.
Author and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign secretary Francisco Dominguez addressed an audience of trade unionists, social justice campaigners and the Venezuelan, Cuban and Nicaraguan ambassadors, outlining Venezuela’s dogged pursuit of socialism at home and anti-imperialism abroad.
When Bolivarian revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez died in 2013, “everyone in the media, the US, the EU thought the opportunity had come to overthrow the revolution,” he said.
After years trying to overthrow Chavez, the US declared Venezuela an “extraordinary threat” to the United States in 2014 and imposed crippling sanctions, as well as sponsoring violent uprisings in 2014, 2017 and 2019, and recognising a fake president in Juan Guaido from 2019.
The pamphlet details the impact of the sanctions and attempted coups and the Venezuelan response.
Published by the General Federation of Trade Unions, it can be bought at bit.ly/VenezuelaPamphlet for £2.
