Daughter of Berta Caceres: Venezuela Is Not Alone

"Venezuela is not alone, it has friends all over the world, and I am one of them, like my mom, Berta Caceres," Olivia Marcela Zuniga wrote in a message Wednesday.

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Zuniga, the slain Honduran Indigenous activist's eldest daughter, said her mother "is and will be with the Bolivarian people who fight and will continue to fight with determination and dignity against the tentacles of the (U.S.) Empire, against their lies made in dirty campaigning laboratories, which are like bombs against democracy."

"Venezuela has been a friend of our people in the hardest moments, and it is easy to raise the yellow, blue and red flag with stars in times of glory, but the true solidarity is given in these hard times."

Zuniga added that media has attempted to erase her mother's "anti-imperialist and deeply revolutionary spirit," which her daughters described as including "anti-capitalism, anti-patriarchy, and anti-racism."

Caceres rose to international prominence for leading the Indigenous Lenca people in a struggle against a controversial hydroelectric dam project in the community of Rio Blanco that was put in motion without consent from local communities. Caceres received numerous death threats for her activism against the dam and although she was supposedly under the protection of the state, she was assassinated on March 3, 2016.

During her activism, she remained closely aligned with left-wing movements in her native Honduras, as well as across Latin America.

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Movements and prominent left-wing intellectuals from across the world have been demonstrating in support of the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan government, which has seen an unprecedented internal and external attack with the aim of toppling the government and reversing the social gains made under successive left-wing administrations.

On Thursday, President Nicolas Maduro accused the U.S. government of having "given the green light" for a coup in the country, and said that security forces had arrested an “armed commando group sent by the opposition in order to attack the mobilization called by the right-wing for Wednesday to generate violence and deaths in the country.”