Two weeks ago, the TUC sent its first official delegation to Venezuela, which met with President Chávez and trade union leaders, as well as other representatives of the country's social movements. Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the NUJ, was part of the delegation and will be reporting back at a meeting in London on Wednesday June 14th.

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Charley Allan of the Hands Off Venezuela campaign wrote a letter to The Independent complaining about their article Garcia claims Peru win spells end of regional takeover by Chavez, which falsely portrays Hugo Chavez as a dictator. We republish the letter as it was published in the paper.

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Classes at the University of the Andes (ULA) were suspended again last week, as disturbances and protests continued in Merida. In response to the violence, various government representatives announced that behind the disturbances is a conspiracy to “destabilize” the country.

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Hands Off Venezuela received an interesting letter on the recent violence in the city of Merida, which gives a good insight in the right wing terrorism that is increasing in Venezuela. We publish it here together with a public statement (in English and Spanish) by the student movement.

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Last week the second national UNT congress took place in Caracas. We reproduce this report from Andy Goodall from Venezuela Solidarity UK. We will have another report ready soon.

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Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists and member of the British Hands Off Venezuela steering committee, met with President Chavez as part of a trade union delegation from Britain. Jeremy discussed the campaign of disinformation in the mainstream media abroad. We will report more on this next week together with reports of the UNT conference taking place now. For now we link to two articles from Aporrea.org and a video where Jeremy is interviewed by state channel VTV.

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Following the hugely successful visit to London by Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, where he addressed audiences of hundreds, the Hands Off Venezuela campaign is to be launched in Scotland with a press conference at the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday, 31st May.

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Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn moved an Early Day Motion in support of the nationalisation of the gas in Bolivia. We encourage our readers to email their MPs to ask them to sign this motion.

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