| It is clear for the world to see: the U.S.-backed coup attempt in Venezuela has failed, defeated by the popular mobilization of the people of Venezuela and their supporters across the globe. The corporate media has been forced to admit this reality, no longer referring to Juan Guaidó as “interim president” but instead as a “opposition leader.” Even the New York Times came out with a report confirming the Venezuelan government’s claim that it was the opposition that burned trucks February 23.
However, this does not mean that the imperialists’ desperation to overturn the Bolivarian Revolution and President Nicolás Maduro will subside – as evidenced by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s increasingly hostile tweets and provocations. In fact, just in the last few days U.S. and other hostile forces have engaged in a massive sabotage of Venezuela’s electrical grid, and have used this in a hollow attempt to re-energize the dying coup. So far, they continue to fail.
Right now, a delegation of U.S. anti-war leaders – including Ajamu Baraka, National Coordinator of Black Alliance for Peace (BAP); Bahman Azad, Organizational Secretary of US Peace Council; Sara Flounders, Co-Director of the International Action Center and a coordinator of No War on Venezuela; Margaret Kimberley, Editor and Senior Columnist at Black Agenda Report, and on the Coordinating Committees of BAP and United Antiwar Coalition (UNAC); Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator of UNAC; and many more – are on the ground in Venezuela. We will share updates of this important solidarity mission on social media and by email as they are available.
Two major upcoming mobilizations in Washington, D.C. are underscored in their importance by the increasing desperation of the Pentagon and Wall Street to advance their war agenda in light of their overwhelming defeat. |
