US Solidarity Delegation Visits Venezuela, Praises Democratic Model
US Solidarity Delegation Visits Venezuela, Praises Democratic Model
By Lucas Koerner
Caracas, July 14, 2015 (venezuelanalysis.com) – A group of twenty US social justice activists visited Venezuela last week as part of a delegation in solidarity with the South American nation following escalating US aggression in past months.
Organized by the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), the Marin Task Force on the Americas (TFA), School of the Americas Watch, and Alliance for Global Justice, the delegation comes in direct response to the Obama administration’s executive order this past March branding Venezuela a “national security threat” and imposing a further round of sanctions against top officials.
"When the US sanctions happened, we knew we had to come here and in any way possibly show our solidarity with the Venezuelan people and the Venezuelan government and to say to people, 'our government's policies do not represent us,'" explained TFA director Dale Sorensen, who has coordinated solidarity delegations to Venezuela since 2004.
Arriving in Caracas on July 5th in order to join Venezuelans in commemorating their independence and sovereignty, delegates met with a plethora of diverse organizations over the course of their week-long stay, including grassroots movements, political parties, as well as government officials.
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