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The Legacy of Hugo Chavez Lives On

Legacy of Hugo Chavez

“The Legacy of Hugo Chavez Lives On”
A Conversation with Venezuela’s Ambassador to the UN

Dear Friend,
On Sunday, April 14 (just a few days away) the people of Venezuela will vote for a new president to succeed the late Hugo Chavez.

This election will be enormously significant, not just for Venezuela, but also for the entire Latin American and Caribbean region; indeed, in many respects, crucial to the destinies of many countries in the developing world.

There are reports circulating today that Washington is busy interfering in the election campaign with the objective of determining an outcome that will serve its imperial interests in the Americas.

I hope you can join me, and many others, in demanding that the State Department and the CIA stay out of the Venezuelan people’s internal affairs.

I also hope you can take a few minutes to watch a video interview that I conducted recently with Julio Rafael Escalona, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations. The video is entitled “The Legacy of Hugo Chavez Lives On” and in it the ambassador speaks movingly about what Chavez and the ‘Chavista Movement’ means to the peoples of Venezuela, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr2Yr-_DwQk&feature=youtu.be

He also addresses the future of Venezuela’s international initiatives such as PetroCaribe, CELAC, ALBA , the heating oil assistance program in US cities like New York, Boston and Detroit etc. in the post-Chavez period.

If you like the video, feel free to post it to your Wall and share it with your Facebook friends and with those in your other networks, and if you have a Web site or blog please consider posting it there, as well.

Thanks.
In solidarity,
Don Rojas

Latin America

Potluck Dinner Raffle at Casa de las Americas

A Message to the Friends and Supporters of New York Solidarity with Vieques (NYSV)

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TIME IS SHORT AND WE ASK THAT YOU OPEN AND FORWARD OUR FLYER FAR AND WIDE AND THAT YOU CONSIDER DONATING FOOD, SERVICES, OR THINGS FOR THE RAFFLE THIS SATURDAY. HOPE TO SEE YOU SATURDAY!
NEW YORK SOLIDARITY WITH VIEQUES INVITES YOU TO COME BY CASA DE LAS AMERICAS
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THIS SATURDAY,
APRIL 13TH@6PM

FOR POTLUCK DINNER/RAFFLE& SEND-OFF FOR THE NEW YORK 10 ANNIVERSARY DELEGATION TO VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO – MAY 1-5, 2013

CONTRIBUTE TO THE VIEQUES DELEGATION SCHOLARSHIP DRIVE WITH YOUR DONATIONS, TIME, FOOD, SERVICES, GIFTS FOR RAFFLE, AND/OR JUST COME BY AND SIGN-UP TO JOIN US IN VIEQUES!

Saturday, April 13, 2013 – 6pm
Casa de las Américas

182 E. 111th Street (between Lexington Ave. and 3rd Ave.) Take the 6 train to E. 110th St.

Suggested Donation: $10.00
FOR MORE INFO AND TO OFFER TO HELP OR DONATE FOOD/SERVICES/RAFFLE ITEMS:
Frank Velgara (718) 601-4751 Jesús Mangual Cruz (917) 557-4791 Natasha (347) 693-1610

Latin America

Between Torture and Resistance

Upcoming New Book
“Between Torture and Resistance”

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A compilation of writings by Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar López Rivera, edited by Dr. Luis Nieves Falcón

On the release of the English-language edition of Between Torture and Resistance,a compilation of writings by Oscar López Rivera,with an introduction by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Speaker:
Dr. Luis Nieves Falcón

Saturday, April 20, 2013
6:00-9:00pm

Casas las Americas
182 East 111 St.
New York, NY

Latin America

A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO SUPPORT THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION

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No U.S. Intervention in Venezuela Elections

TELL WASHINGTON & THE VENEZUELAN ELITE: NO TO DESTABILIZATION EFFORTS IN VENEZUELA

A day of Solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution: Thursday APRIL 11, 2013

After the tragic death of our beloved president Chavez, the imperialist nations of the world are preparing to attack the Bolivarian Revolution. Venezuela is getting prepared for a new presidential election and the imperialists are intent to intervene and sabotage the election.

President Nicolas Maduro has claimed that elements of the U.S. State Department are hiring mercenaries to attack Venezuela in the days of the presidential election. The United States wants to create chaos in Venezuela to justify a military intervention. Let them know that we are here to denounce them.

NO US INTERVENTION IN VENEZUELA ELECTION

The solidarity movement in the United States right now faces a critical challenge with regards to Venezuela as well as the revolutionary process in Latin America. The tragic death of our comrade President Hugo Chavez has many believing that the important process for progress in Venezuela, Latin America and the world, has been dealt a crippling blow but we know that the Venezuelan people and the region will never go backward. And our solidarity will continue as they move forward in their struggles for self-determination, sovereignty, integration and social justice.

The people of Venezuela will honor the last will of President Chavez by overwhelmingly voting this coming April 14 for Nicolas Maduro for President. The Venezuelan people clearly remain committed to the process of fundamental change in their country, no matter what. We are confident that the roots of the Bolivarian Revolution will remain strong and grow.

But the death of our dear President Hugo Chavez will be used by US imperialism and the elite oligarchy in Venezuela to carry out aggressive plans to destabilize the revolutionary process in Venezuela. We must send a strong message to Washington right away: we are organizing our voices of solidarity with the Venezuelan people and demand no intervention during this coming election in Venezuela.

Why April 11? The Venezuelan coup attempt of 2002 was a failed coup d’état on 11 April 2002, that saw late President Hugo Chavez ousted from office for 47 hours, being restored by a combination of military loyalists and massive public support for his government. Chavez was initially detained by members of the military and of pro-business elites represented by Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce (Fedecámaras) president Pedro Carmona, who was declared as the interim president. Carmona’s brief rule saw the Venezuelan National Assembly and the Supreme Court both dissolved, and the country’s 1999 Constitution declared void.

In New York City, we will gather at Times Square @ 4PM to express our love and solidarity with the legacy of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and then we will march to the U.S. Mission to tell President Barack Obama: We do not want U.S. intervention in Venezuela.

If you are in a city where no action is taking place, call, fax, email the White House and voice your opposition to intervention. Or better yet, organize a local action!

Please contact us and let us know how your organization can support this national day for the Bolivarian Revolution. Email: cbalbertolovera@gmail.com, 718-510-5523 or 347-251-6301 or 646-533-6081.

Partial list of endorsers: Answer Coalition, Pastor For Peace, IFCO, International Action Center, MAY1 Coalition, The Alliance For Global Justice, International Concerned Family and Frieds of Mumia Abu-Jamal and the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild, The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy & Socialism (CCDS), FMLN NYC, Cuba Solidarity NY, Haiti Liberte, Peña del Bronx, Alianza Pais (Ecuador), Hand off Venezuela, Existence is Resistance, Pro Libertad.

Chavez Vive,La Lucha Sigue!
Chavez por siempre, Maduro Presidente

By The Bolivarian Circle
A NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO SUPPORT THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION