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Campaign Calls on US Citizens to Oppose Anti-Venezuela Senate Bill

  • A right-wing protester hurls a Molotov cocktail as violent opposition protests continue into their seventh week.

    A right-wing protester hurls a Molotov cocktail as violent opposition protests continue into their seventh week. | Photo: Reuters

Published 16 May 2017
Opinion

The Alliance for Global Justice has issued a call for opposition to a senate bill which would increase funding for regime change in Venezuela.

A U.S.-based solidarity group launched a campaign this month asking U.S. citizens to send an email to senators demanding they oppose Senate Bill S-1018 which would increase funding to opposition groups in Venezuela.

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“The purpose of the bill is neither to help solve Venezuela’s economic crisis, nor to help bring violent elements in the opposition to the table to discuss peaceful solutions to Venezuela’s problems. Its purpose is to further destabilize Venezuela’s economy and democracy in order to remove elected President Nicolas Maduro and to crush Hugo Chavez’ Bolivarian Movement which brought hope of a better life to millions around the world,” organizers from the Alliance for Global Justice wrote.

Since the start of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela almost two decades ago under the leadership of the late President Hugo Chavez, the United States has funded right-wing opposition groups in an attempt to regain their lost political and economic hegemony in the oil-rich region.

"U.S. financing and logistical support for violent groups in Venezuela have facilitated an armed sedition," the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that the situation will be dealt with in accordance with the rule of law.

According to a 2007 U.S. strategic document leaked by former CIA-whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013, Venezuela was seen as the main adversary of the United States in the Western Hemisphere. The country was listed as one of the top six "enduring targets for the NSA," along with China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Russia.

The organizers of the campaign call out the “gross hypocrisy” of the senators who sponsored the bill, who “are focused on Venezuela where the government lost 80 percent of its revenue in recent years due to low oil prices and where former U.S. President Jimmy Carter himself said that Venezuela has the best electoral system of any country he has monitored.”

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