With a few months left in office, the Bush administration may be
unleashing its last hurrah in Latin America. Stephen Lendman analyses the recent attempts by the U.S. government to destabilize Bolivia and Venezuela.
Listen to the interviews of two participants of the first Belgian official
trade union visit to Venezuela. Speakers are Ronny Le Blon, union official and
former spokesperson of the socialist oilworkers at the Total refinery and Bruno
Verlaeckt, president of the Antwerp branch of the union.
We
call on all youth, trade unionists and progressive people to rally in
support of the Revolution in Venezuela and in the rest of Latin
America. Come and play your part! Help defend the Venezuelan
Revolution!
About 100 people gathered on Monday, September 22, in front of the
Bolivian embassy in Madrid, Spain, to show their opposition to the
ongoing coup against the government of Evo Morales.
Belgian oil worker union activists recently visited Venezuela, witnessing the situation in the Venezuelan trade union movement directly, at PDVSA but also in the wider community, getting a taste of both the advances of the revolution and the problems.
On Saturday September 20th, approximately 80 people attended, "Media Democracy - a conference on corporate control of the media." This conference at Ryerson University in Toronto was held in conjunction with protests in Vancouver and Montreal as part of a Canada-wide day of action against coup plots in Bolivia and Venezuela.
On Saturday, September 20th, about 30 people participated in a rally
against US Imperialism in front of the American consulate in Montréal.
The rally was organized by the Societé Bolivarienne du Québec/Hands Off
Venezuela in response to the US-backed coup plots uncovered last week
in Bolivia and Venezuela.
