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Global movements, including Alba Movimientos, the International Peoples’ Assembly, the Simón Bolívar Institute, and the Caribbean Peoples’ Assembly, have launched a campaign titled “Defend Democracy and Sovereignty: Hands off Venezuela.”
The campaign was launched in response to Venezuela’s presidential elections on July 28, which were followed by a wave of attacks orchestrated by far-right political actors, the main hegemonic media, and the United States and its allies.
The document highlights that “the hegemonic media, in conjunction with foreign diplomatic actors, have sought to discredit the recent Venezuelan electoral process,” as part of a hybrid war led by the United States and other governments aligned with US-led imperialism.
The campaign aims to debunk the fake news and falsehoods that have been spread as general consensus, providing tools for revolutionary peoples to counter the ideological and communications offensive against Venezuela.
The social movements involved in the campaign denounce “the more than 930 unilateral coercive measures, and the wave of violence and persecution unleashed by the pro-coup opposition that seeks to achieve by force what they could not at the ballot box, while constructing new narratives with self-proclaimed presidents on social networks.”
The social movements emphasize that it is impossible to analyze the Venezuelan situation without considering the regional and global geopolitical context: its privileged place in world oil production, its common goods placed at the service of the people, its role in leading a project of regional unification and integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, and its place in the multipolar world alongside emerging countries in the Global South.
In the coming days, gatherings and demonstrations will take place in front of US embassies in various cities around the world, aiming to expose Washington’s complicity with the Venezuelan far-right opposition.
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