Venezuela

Declaration Of The Embassy Protection Collective

We have joined together as the Embassy Protection Collective to show solidarity with the people of Venezuela and their right to determine their elected government. We are staying in the Venezuelan embassy with the permission of the legitimate Venezuelan government under President Nicolas Maduro. We seek to provide a nonviolent barrier to the threatened opposition takeover of their embassy in Washington, DC by being a presence at the embassy every day of the week for 24 hours a day. The Collective is working from the embassy, located in the heart of Georgetown in Washington, DC during the day and holding seminars and cultural events in the evenings, as well as sleeping in the embassy.

Eyewitness In Venezuela: A 14-year Perspective

May 20, 2019 Peter Lackowski, Counterpunch.org Educate! Latin America, Venezuela, Youth

I was in Venezuela from April 26 to May 5, 2019. It was the fifth time I have been there in a span of 14 years, so I was able to put things I saw on this trip in that context. My first visit was in 2005. I saw people begging, sleeping in doorways, street venders filling not just sidewalks, even whole streets in some areas. But I also saw bundles of books being distributed house to house, following a campaign to teach everyone to read. I visited clinics in poor neighborhoods staffed by Cuban medical personnel. I saw independent radio stations run by people in their communities, broadcasting local news, and providing a platform for commentary on current events. Stores had basic foods at affordable, subsidized prices.

The Assault On The Venezuelan Embassy

May 19, 2019 By Bill Van Auken, WSWS Resist! Militarized police, US Regime Change, Venezuela

Events that transpired Thursday at the Venezuelan embassy in the upscale Washington neighborhood of Georgetown expressed in microcosm the criminality and contempt for international law that characterizes US imperialist operations the world over. US Secret Service agents, Washington’s Metropolitan Police and agents of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service, hundreds of armed men, stormed the building to evict four peaceful antiwar activists, part of a larger contingent that had been staying in the embassy for the last month at the invitation of the Venezuelan government.

Activists To ‘Escalate’ Opposition To Trump Policies Toward Venezuela, Iran

May 19, 2019 By Mark Hand, DC Media Group Resist! US Regime Change, Venezuela

Activists opposed to the Trump administration’s plans to overthrow the Venezuelan government returned to the Venezuelan embassy Saturday afternoon to express their support for the group of people known as the Embassy Protection Collective, four of whom were arrested Thursday by U.S. police agents who entered the embassy without the permission of the government of Venezuela. One day after their release from jail, the four collective members were among the nearly 200 people who rallied and marched to the White House. Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese of activist group Popular Resistance, academic Adrienne Pine and Code Pink member David Paul were released from jail Friday afternoon after appearing in federal court on a misdemeanor charge of interfering with State Department diplomatic protective functions.

Venezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire

May 19, 2019 Roger D Harris Educate! Venezuela

Uncle Sam has a problem in his South American “backyard” with those uppity Venezuelans who insisted on democratically electing Nicolás

US Judge Orders Release of Four Activists Arrested at Venezuela’s DC Embassy

May 19, 2019 Staff, Sputnik News Resist! Embassy Protection Collective, Venezuela

A US federal judge has ordered the release of four anti-war activists arrested inside the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC, on Thursday. They will reappear in court on June 12. Kevin Zeese, Adrienne Pine, Margaret Flowers, and David Paul appeared in a DC federal courthouse Friday, where they were charged with a Class A misdemeanor: "interfering with a federal law enforcement agent engaged in protective functions."

An Academic Arrested for Protecting the Venezuela Embassy

May 18, 2019 Adrienne Pine, Common Dreams Resist! Venezuela

As a scholar and educator, there are times when standard tools of teaching, publishing, and public speaking aren’t enough. There are times when we need to put our bodies on the line.

Police Raid Venezuelan Embassy In DC, Arrest Last Remaining Members Of Embassy Protection Collective

May 17, 2019 Staff, Sputniknews.com Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Police have broken into the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC and arrested four protesters from the Embassy Protection Collective, according to Medea Benjamin, an activist from the anti-war group CODEPINK. Among the four who were arrested during the raid are anti-war activists Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. A US Secret Service spokesman confirmed that it had helped Department of State’s Diplomatic Security arrest the remaining Embassy Protection Collective protesters inside the Venezuelan Embassy.

What 50 Countries Are Backing Guaidó? Who Knows? Who Cares? If The Media Say It Enough It Must Be True

May 16, 2019 Dave Lindorff, Counterpunch.org Educate! Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

American media still refer to Juan Guaidó, America’s hand-picked “legitimate leader” or “legitimate president” of Venezuela, as having an “administration.” The truth is that his “administration” — consisting of advisors and other opposition leaders — are all either arrested and being held by the government, hiding, seeking asylum in various foreign embassies (Spanish, Italian, Brazilian and Argentinian) in the capital of Caracas, or have fled to other countries like Brazil and Colombia.

Who’s Behind The Pro-Guaidó Crowd Besieging Venezuela’s D.C. Embassy?

May 16, 2019 By Jeb Sprague and Alexander Rubinstein, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Corporate Media, Regime Change, Venezuela

The intimidation tactics by the pro-coup embassy besiegers not only failed to deter the peace activists around the embassy, they left Venezuela’s D.C.-based opposition with a serious PR problem. After a week of hateful outbursts, a handful of marketing strategists emerged as de facto spokespeople for the mob. After a rough and revealing start, the reins of the campaign to seize Venezuela’s embassy in Washington are being taken over by a group of well-connected marketing and online strategists.

Attorney Stops Federal Raid Attempt On Venezuelan Embassy

May 15, 2019 By John Zangas, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Activists, Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

Washington, DC–On Monday night Secret Service, DC Police, and State Department agents attempted a coordinated raid on the Embassy of Venezuela to arrest activists that have been inside for a month. Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, an attorney representing the activists’ interests at the Embassy, intervened on their behalf as federal agents entered the building. She notified them that they had no legal authority to enter the Embassy when they did not present a signed warrant authorizing them to arrest the activists.

US And Russia To Discuss Fate Of Venezuela Amid Reports Putin Will Not Prop Up Maduro

May 14, 2019 By Harriet Alexander, Telegraph.co.uk Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Regime Change, Russia, US Imperialism, Venezuela

Nicolas Maduro’s future will be weighed up today by two key players as Vladimir Putin and Mike Pompeo meet in Russia to discuss Venezuela’s fate. Mr Pompeo, on his first visit to Russia as secretary of state, travels to Sochi armed with the knowledge Mr Putin is not committed to propping up Mr Maduro. “Vladimir Putin detests Nicolas Maduro,” one Venezuelan source with decades of dealings with Russia told The Telegraph. “It’s just a question of how to get out of this mess.”

Venezuela’s Crisis: A View From The Communes

May 14, 2019 By Federico Fuentes, Venezuelanalysis.com Educate! Communes, Venezuela

Within hours of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó calling for street mobilisations to back his attempted military coup against President Nicolás Maduro on April 30, Guaidó’s supporters had looted and set fire to the headquarters of the Indio Caricuao Commune in south-west Caracas. The building was used for local residents’ meetings and housed a commune-run textile enterprise, which funds projects in the community. Atenea Jiménez, from the National Network of Comuneros (commune activists) said: “Once again attacks on the communes by fascist sectors have begun.”

National Lawyers Guild Condemns Secret Service Complicity In Violence Against US Peace Activists

May 13, 2019 Staff, Popular Resistance Resist! Latin America, Regime Change, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The undersigned write to condemn the violations of law which are occurring at the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington D.C. and to demand immediate action be taken. Prior to April 25, 2019, a group of peace activists were invited to the Embassy by the government of Venezuela – recognized as such by the United Nations - and continue to be lawfully on the premises. Nonetheless, the United States government, through various law enforcement agencies, have condoned and protected violent opponents in support of an attempted siege of the Embassy.

US Press Reaches All-Time Low On Venezuela Coverage

May 13, 2019 Daniel Kovalik, Counterpunch.org Educate! Corporate Media, Propaganda, Regime Change, Venezuela

As famed Latin American author Eduardo Galeano once wrote, “every time the US ‘saves’ a country, it converts it into either an insane asylum or a cemetery.” Of course, as we look over the wreckage left by the US in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, we see that this statement is demonstrably true. And yet, now that the US is poised for another intervention, this time in Venezuela, the press is right there again to cheer it along. Analyzing 76 total press articles of the “elite” press from January 15 to April 15, 2019, Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) could find not one voice that opposed Trump’s regime plans in Venezuela.

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