The News From the Venezuela Election? Victory for the People of Venezuela and Defeat for the U.S.

Black Alliance for Peace Statement on Venezuelan Elections

The news out of Venezuela related to the elections is that there is no news. All attempts to attack and delegitimize the process failed and the people of that beleaguered nation once again chose independence and dignity over surrendering to the imperialist gangsterism of the United States and their white supremacist, European colonial allies.

For the first time in four years elements of the political opposition participated in elections that saw nearly 70,000 candidates representing 37 national political parties and 43 regional organizations for 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 lawmakers, and 2,471 councilors.

Demonstrating once again that it is committed to open, fair, and clean elections, the Consejo National Electoral (CNE), the governmental body responsible for organizing elections in the country, issued credentials to over 300 international observers from 55 countries and institutions such as the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), and the Carter Center.

The result?

The “Great Patriotic Pole” (GPP), a coalition of parties and social movements organized by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), won overwhelmingly including 20 out of 23 key governorships in the sub-national election.

According to BAP National Organizer Ajamu Baraka, “The support of the Venezuelan people for their process demonstrates once again, like what we just saw in the Nicaraguan elections and the failed revolt in Cuba on the 15th, that the white supremacists do not understand that when a people have tasted freedom, reconnected with their pre-colonial cultural traditions of knowledge production and independence, they become immune to the political, ideological and material attempts to drive them back into subordination.”

The elections in Venezuela and Nicaragua, the abandonment of reactionary forces in Cuba by the Cuban people, and the solidarity from progressive forces globally in support of the struggles for national liberation and self-determination in the Americas, represent the upsurge of popular opposition and the growing weakness and fragility of U.S. and European imperialism.

They all forcefully affirm that the colonial realities are being reversed. It is a victory for all oppressed, colonized, and working-class peoples when a people, working to build a new society for themselves freed from the dehumanizing effects of the colonial/capitalist system, are able to withstand the systematic assaults on their democratic process and national sovereignty. BAP stands firmly with all of these attempts and proudly salutes the people of Venezuela.

No compromise, no retreat! 

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns U.S. Sponsorship of Reactionary Anti-government Protests Against Cuba

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Black Alliance for Peace Condemns U.S. Sponsorship of Reactionary Anti-government Protests Against Cuba

The US government continues to amplify its war on the Cuban people through political, economic, and media efforts. In their own words, the US State Department has announced its role in organizing reactionary protests in Cuba, scheduled for November 15 as a continuation of the #SOSCuba campaign that began in July. The US has also preemptively threatened to place even more sanctions on Cuba if it deems that the Cuban government has interfered with the protests. As we know, sanctions kill, and while these will be framed as supporting human rights, the 60+-year long blockade and recent Trump and Biden administration crackdowns are war tactics that represent violence against the Cuban people, particularly Afro-Cubans. 

The Black Alliance for Peace’s Haiti/Americas Committee recognizes these signals as part of a long-term concerted attempt to destabilize and delegitimize the Cuban government, whose socialist principles and decades-long defiance of US imperialism are unacceptable to the US white supremacist empire. As Mint Press News has reported, the US appears to be exerting a ‘soft power’ strategy to orchestrate a color revolution in Cuba, co-opting language around human rights and racial justice while simultaneously ignoring such concerns at home.

We condemn this interventionism by the US government, and call on all supporters to stand in solidarity with the Cuban people and against the broad US war on Cuba. We also recognize these acts as a continuation of US-sponsored regime change, capitalist exploitation, and military intervention in the region – from Haiti to Bolivia to Nicaragua and beyond. We must stay vigilant of US propaganda, such as false claims of “Havana Syndrome,” US State Department statements preemptively dismissing the democratic elections in Nicaragua, and the dubious deployment of charges of antiBlackness against Cuba. We must also condemn attempts by US liberals to co-opt and weaponize radical language to garner support from the US left. Included below are a few opportunities to show solidarity:

Rally in solidarity with the Cuban people: Monday, November 15th at 12p in front of the Cuban Embassy, 2630 16th St NW, Washington, DC. (Organized by Black Workers Center Chorus, DC metro Coalition, Code Pink, and BAP-affiliate, Friends of the Congo)

War on Cuba series: Belly of the Beast Cuba has recently launched the second season. Black Alliance for Peace’s Haiti/Americas Committee will co-sponsor a webinar with Belly of the Beast on Saturday November 20th at 5pm EST to discuss the US war on Cuba’s impact on Afro-Cubans and the connections to broader US militarism and imperialism in the Americas.

Political Education: As a starting point, we recommend BAP member organization Hood Communist’s Guide to understanding the US blockade on Cuba - Don’t Get Caught Slippin’. Belly of the Beast’s recent Instagram series of #FromUnderTheEmpire offers a brief overview of the history of Cuban struggle against imperialism, from 1800 to present.

The people of Cuba have endured decades of insults, attacks, and systematic subversion but their revolutionary moral has not been broken. The Black Alliance for Peace will never abandon the Cuban people. We remember how revolutionary Cuba responded to the call made by African comrades to help them confront the colonial occupations. BAP pledges to stand with Cuba today, ready to sacrifice and struggle until victory. 

Banner photo: Cuban supporters of the government of President Miguel Diaz-Canel at a demonstration in Havana on July 17, 2021. (Yamil Lage / AFP)

BAP Remarks at Nicaragua Electoral Companion Press Conference

Managua, Nicaragua

Netfa Remarks at Press Conference, Nicaragua, 9 November 2021:

US policy toward Nicaragua is connected to their policy against Cuba, and in Haiti, and against Venezuela and in Columbia. They Talk about political prisoners or people being prevented from participating as candidates in the process when this is completely untrue and the US has the longest-held political prisoners on the planet, some of them are now dying in prison. We saw firsthand the vibrance, freedom, and fairness of the process on the Caribbean Coast. Indigenous and Black people went to the polls in a humble and orderly fashion. 

Their gains… They spoke of their gains since 2007 when the Sandinistas came to power, and what they are trying to ensure through their process of voting is the continuation of the process of roads, water, education, health care. What they experience is nothing comparable to what we have in the United States, where politicians haggle over the price tag of providing these things, human rights for all its citizens.

Most of the people on the Caribbean coast in Bluefields and other places expressed their faith in their government because of the fact that it provides agency for them. Not things being given to them, but that they actually enjoy an autonomy that is statutory, that is enshrined in the law. And is also behind how they carry out their election process in those regions. The black power that we fight for in the United States, they are realizing through autonomy. Autonomy is Black Power. And they say it is ensured through the Sandinista revolution.

The US policies are based on racism. The outrageous assumption that the US has the right to determine the leadership of other nations, when it cannot even provide basic human rights to its own citizens and residents is obscene. We are here because we are anti-imperialist internationalists, opposing the common global system of oppression. Thank you.

QUESTION from Camilla Escalante from Kawsachun News based in Bolivia:

WE have a selection of people here from Canada and the United States. Today Luis Almagro tweeted that the OAS has their own report, despite that the Organization of American States was not on the ground. We did not see them here. They don’t know what is going on. They actually said that this is a, they’re asking for a response to this clear violation of the democracy, despite their lack of presence. They actually called for and demanded an annulment of the election and the holding of a new electoral process; we’ve heard this before, because they say “guarantees electoral observation and true electoral competition.”

So, everyone here, unless you’re from Cuba or Venezuela, is from a country that are part of the Organization of American States. So what can we do, what can you guys do, going forward, given that we are represented within that body that continues to be interventionist, and that, where I live, carried out a coup exactly two years ...? 

NETFA: I think that’s a very good question, an important question. I think that we first have to realize… the short answer to your question is that I think we have to build an anti-imperialist, united front that is global. The OAS has lost its legitimacy a long time ago, if it ever even had any. So, like you pointed out, it blatantly supported a coup in Bolivia and now it is attempting to discredit a process that is free and fair, when itself, is discredited. I think what has to happen is that we have to build an anti-imperialist front that only recognizes legitimate popular human rights or people-centered human rights processes. I think that also goes for looking internally to the United States, where the US pulls the strings of the OAS, like those for Almagro, and all of them, they carry the water for US imperialism. When we look to also expose the blatant contradictions and hypocrisy that US domestic policy has, its connection with the foreign policy it has, then I think that is the beginning of us building an anti-imperialist united front. And that’s essential, and it also means that we have to look for processes of power. We have to build power on the local level. There are places where the people don’t have state power. It’s still in the hands of an elite, like for example in Haiti, where they supported a dictator Jovenel Moïse in spite of these massive demonstrations against Moise. They fund the police there. They fund repression and then after his assassination they legitimized people assuming themselves in power, and actually hand picking the next leader. There is a lot of hypocrisy that the US has and the Organization of American States reflects that same hypocrisy. 

CONT’…

I agree with everything that everybody says. It is important for us to realize what the US does in terms of its propaganda is not to target the Nicaraguan people. They are known. They read the polls just like us. Their attempts in the media to discredit it before it even happens is to target outside, particularly the US public. It’s to get support for their programs of “regime change” or the change of governments.

So, it is incumbent upon those of us who are anti-imperialist outside of Nicaragua, to recognize the reality; to see through the lies and to do our work in exposing the United States government. And not just the U.S. but we’re also the OAS, NATO; all of these institutions are really nothing but the Pan-European, capitalist, patriarchy. They represent the US-EU-NATO axis of domination. That’s what the OAS is… it’s part of that. So we have to realize that we already know that the Sandinista people… and the FSLN, like one of the young people told me, “it’s not just a party. We’re a social movement.” So they know they can’t do anything against that. But what they are trying to do is to intoxicate our thinking and to get people on the ground in the US to have pre-judgments about the kinds of things that we are expressing here.

QUESTION: Do any of you think there is any chance for a US or OAS coup attempt in Nicaragua.

They’ve already done that. In 2018 they already attempted a coup. This is part of the US playbook; to find the delinquent forces, the susceptible citizens of a country and co-opt them. They either pay them or whatever to create destabilizing attempts. And these are viscously violent attempts that are passed off in the media as if they are some legitimate uprising against a supposed dictatorial government. They’ve done that already. We should always expect that they will do that. If they will drop bombs on innocent babies anywhere in the world, that means they’re committed to full spectrum dominance by any means necessary. So we have to be committed to decolonization, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism. And I’ll say this to indigenous and Black people one of the things they’re trying to make us believe is… 

You know it’s hard for us to say, (many of us in the Black Alliance for Peace) that this is ours… this is not our government. We are colonized victims of their violence inside the United States. We’re not trying to “convince” them of anything. We’re fighting for decolonization and liberation against these global imperialist pigs. And that is what we’re struggling for. So, one: we don’t put anything past them. They’re gonna do whatever they can. They’re going to continue to do it until their last breath. So we have to be just as determined to get our liberation and our freedom.

 Margaret Remarks at Press Conference, Nicaragua, 9 November 2021

“My name is Margaret Kimberley and I am a member of a seven-person delegation from Black Alliance for Peace. We have been here in Managua and in Blue Fields on the Caribbean coast on election day. That region is the home of a variety of ethnic groups, Afro-descended Garifuna and Creole communities, Miskito, Olwas, Mayagna, and Rama indigenous people, and Mestizos.

We saw four different polling places in the town of Blue Fields and on Pearl Lagoon. We saw a well managed process, a ballot which is clearer than any I have seen in my home in New York, and people from all of the communities I mentioned participating as voters.

What we saw is not what the corporate media and US politicians tell the public about Nicaragua. Newspapers and television networks in the US claimed that only the governing party was allowed to campaign and that other candidates are in prison. This is not true. None of the six presidential candidates were incarcerated. Large campaign signs representing all parties were clearly displayed. All Nicaraguans were aware of who is running and which parties they represent. There was no confusion about the process or about the electoral choices available. In short, what we saw is in direct contradiction to what people in the US are being told about the Nicaraguan election.

The presence of our group and other companions has been vital in telling the people of the world about events here. I don’t mean to be boastful in making that statement. My goal is to point out the degree of manipulation being orchestrated around the world by the US government and others who would deny the Nicaraguan people their rights to self determination. The US congress passed the RENACER act, imposing sanctions on the government, sanctions that will harm the people who freely exercised the franchise, all under the guise of helping them. The Black Alliance for Peace delegation is grateful to have participated in this process of witnessing the will of the people in this country and having the opportunity of sharing what we have seen. Thank you very much.”

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns RENACER ACT on Nicaragua as Bipartisan Criminality

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Black Alliance for Peace Condemns RENACER ACT on Nicaragua as Bipartisan Criminality
Black Alliance for Peace To Send Delegation To Nicaragua Ahead of General Election 

NOVEMBER 5th, 2021 -- The Black Alliance for Peace condemns the efforts of Congress to manipulate the electoral process in Nicaragua through illegal sanctions, subversion and the coordination of a deliberate misinformation campaign meant to delegitimize the country’s elections even before they take place. 

As part of that effort the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “RENACER ACT” 387-35 that is meant to impose more sanctions on the country’s President Daniel Ortega but is really a punitive act against the Nicaraguan people for continuing to support their own political project. 

“It is white supremacist, colonial hubris that on the same day that the so-called progressives in the House of Representatives indicated they might abandon their insistence on passing the  minimum human rights provisions in the Build Back Better legislation, those same progressives voted to impose more economic sanctions on the second poorest country in the region that, despite its poverty, guarantees universal healthcare and free education, two human rights guarantees that workers in the U.S. are still denied,” states Ajamu Baraka, BAP’s National Organizer

On November 7th, the people of Nicaragua will go to the polls to reaffirm the commitment to their revolutionary democratic project, a project that began in 1979 when the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) defeated a vicious, neocolonial, gangster regime of Anastasio Somoza that was put in power by the United States only to have those efforts reversed by a U.S. imposed counterrevolutionary war that resulted in the electoral defeat of the FSLN in 1990.  

With the return of the FSLN to power in 2007, it once again became a target for U.S. aggression and electoral subversion. The U.S. and its European allies questioned the legitimacy of the FSLN despite its overwhelming electoral victories that the U.S. characterized as fraudulent. 

Therefore, since it is impossible to get fair and accurate information on Nicaragua from the propaganda organs pretending to be news outlets in the U.S. The Alliance is sending a delegation to observe the process for itself and report back to its membership and the Black communities across the U.S. 

Netfa Freeman, member of BAP’s Coordinating Committee who will be on the delegation provided the explanation for why BAP is involved with the process in Nicaragua in the article, “Why Black Revolutionaries Must Stand with the People of Nicaragua,” that “for Black revolutionaries, committed to People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs), that center decolonial self-determination, social justice and socialism, support for these struggles was not an issue of “solidarity” but of a common struggle.” 

The U.S. should concentrate on reversing the genocidal policies in the U.S. that has resulted in hundred of thousands of unnecessary deaths from conditions and consequences of Covid in Black and Brown communities and the anti-democratic practices of economic elites that have been systematically looting the public coffers since the economic collapse of 2008-09. 

But instead, the U.S. meddles in the internal affairs of countries around the world confirming its international reputation as the number one threat to international peace and number one violator of human rights on the planet. 

The “democratic” fascism that the U.S. oligarchy imposes on global South nations  is both flagrant and insidious, knowing no geographic boundaries. Instead of repression, BAP demands that the U.S. state adhere to international law and respect the sovereignty of Nicaragua and its right to self-determination. By cooperating with the people of Nicaragua, U.S. authorities just might learn something about human rights and civilization.

Banner Photo: Sandinista followers gather at the Juan Pablo II plaza, to celebrate the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in Managua, Nicaragua, Thursday, July 19th, 2018. (AP Photos/Cristobal Venegas)

The Resignation of Biden’s Special Envoy to Haiti Once Again Exposes the White Supremacist Foundations of U.S. Foreign Policy, No Matter Which Party Is In Charge

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The Resignation of Biden’s Special Envoy to Haiti Once Again Exposes the White Supremacist Foundations of U.S. Foreign Policy, No Matter Which Party Is In Charge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021—Dan Foote’s career as a member of the U.S. foreign service and foreign policy community has been problematic. Yet, the blatant racism of Biden’s Haiti policies—in both controlling Haiti’s governance and the illegal and inhuman abuses of Haitian asylum seekers—was too much even for his special envoy to Haiti. In his resignation letter, Foote wrote the U.S. approach to Haiti was "deeply flawed" and that his advice had been "ignored."

Foote’s resignation letter is welcome, as are the statements from the Congressional Black Caucus and other Black formations that have been silent on Biden’s—and other Democratic Party—foreign policies on Haiti and the world, are welcome. But they are too late and too narrow.

As Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Committee Coordinator Jemima Pierre has commented regarding the spectacle of border patrol violence against Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border:

“This latest racist treatment of Haitian people by the U.S. deserves our absolute condemnation and it is important to acknowledge how immigration impacts Black populations in ways that are distinct from other migrants. But we also have to place this wave of migration to the US-Mexico border within the broader context of U.S. and western imperialism in the region. To not do so is to continue to exceptionalize Haiti and Haitian people in ways that hide their connections to the rest of the western occupied world —and draw attention to the mere representation of Haitians, rather than the structural and historical causes of Haitian migration.”

The Black Alliance for Peace has consistently pointed out the uninterrupted racist and imperial policies of the Biden administration in Haiti and throughout the Americas. The support for Jovenel Moïse in Haiti; the illegal sanctions on Venezuela and recognition of the unelected Juan Guaidó as president; subversion of democracy in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia; continuation of the ban on remittances from the United States to Cuba; support for the crackdown on demonstrators in Colombia; and the targeting of Nicaragua have reflected the bipartisan nature of imperial policy in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Coming on the heels of the boycott of the United Nations Meeting on Race yesterday by most of the white colonial nations, led by the U.S. and the U.S./U.K./Australia racial pact against China, the underlying white supremacy of Western imperial policy is quite transparent to anyone who chooses to see.

Banner photo: Border Patrol agents on horseback push Haitians back from the U.S. border in September 2021. (Reuters)

BAP: Acusación de Maduro es un preludio de la agresión racista al estilo panameño

La Alianza Negra para la Paz considera la acusación de Maduro como un preludio de la agresión racista al estilo panameño

Debemos hacer recordar a nuestra gente que más de 150 millones de africanos viven en las llamadas Américas. Sobretodo debemos realzar esta realidad en momentos críticos como éste, cuando los medios corporativos y la opinión establecida están legitimando un gangsterismo estadounidense capaz de matar a miles de personas en Venezuela. (La Clase Obrera Negra Jamás Abandonará a Venezuela.)

El apoyo de la Alianza Negra por la Paz (Black Alliance for Peace—BAP) hacia el pueblo venezolano y su proyecto de establecer la paz, los derechos humanos y el desarrollo para su pueblo, no se verá detenido por el último ataque sobre esa nación, a saber, la acusación sin sustancia o credibilidad que lanzó la administración Trump en contra de Nicolás Maduro.

El uso de la guerra de drogas y armas biológicas contra poblaciones colonizadas insurgentes ha sido un rasgo característico del proyecto colonial EEUU/Europeo desde 1492. Como pueblo africano en los Estados Unidos, tenemos una historia larga y tortuosa de ser blanco de la narco-guerra de EEUU contra nuestro pueblo como arma de subversión contrarrevolucionaria.

Se ha documentado que la disfusión amplia de heroína que ocurrió en las comunidades Negras durante el periodo de la guerra estadounidense contra Vietnam fue facilitada por la Agencia Central de Inteligencia de EEUU (CIA), y la misma se volvió arma conveniente dentro de la estrategia multifacética de contrainsurgencia que desató el Estado en contra del Movimiento de Liberación Negra de los 1960 y 70.

Durante los 80, periodistas valientes como Gary Webb documentaron la introducción de cocaína “crack” en nuestras comunidades. Webb estableció la relación entre las diversas agencias de inteligencia—primordialmente la CIA—y los narcotraficantes, quienes utilizaban a Nicaragua como punto de tránsito para drogas en ruta a Estados Unidos. La relación se dio para poder asegurar ingresos para comprar armas en apoyo a los contrarrevolucionarios en Nicaragua, quienes estaban trabajando con EEUU para derrocar al gobierno sandinista ascendido al poder en 1979. Los aviones aterrizaban en EEUU llenos de cocaína, y se volvían a Centroamérica con armas destinadas a Nicaragua.

Por tanto, el narcoterrorismo no es nada nuevo para nuestras comunidades. Después de introducir drogas peligrosas a nuestras comunidades, el Estado procedía a desatar una llamada guerra en contra de las drogas. La guerra en contra de las drogas en EEUU, al igual que la “guerra contra el delito” (war on crime) en general, siempre tuvo por intención ser arma para hacer la guerra contra los elementos más organizados del movimiento de resistencia Negra. Del mismo modo, la acusación contra el Presidente Maduro se está utilizando para socavar el proceso revolucionario en Venezuela.

El cargo lanzado en contra del dirigente venezolano puede tener semblanza de credibilidad para algunos sectores de la población estadounidense, y será utilizado por la prensa corporativa para legitimar aún más los objetivos ilegales y asesinos del imperialismo de EEUU. Sin embaro, en BAP estamos muy clarxs acerca de quiénes son los verdaderos narco terroristas.

La recompensa ofrecida por Maduro nos recuerda la expansión de la recompensa puesta sobre la cabeza de nuestra querida hermana luchadora por la libertad, Assata Shakur, quien fue agregada por la administración de Obama a “la lista de los terroristas más buscados.”

Aquella movida no nos detuvo ni nos confundió, y esta agresión actual contra el pueblo venezolano tampoco nos confundirá.

Hay que levantarse en solidaridad con los pueblos y las naciones del mundo que están en lucha por la paz, por los derechos humanos centrados en los pueblos, y por una nueva visión de la humanidad, más allá de la explotación capitalista y el dominio imperialista.

No Retroceder, No Transigir
Comité Coordinadora, Black Alliance for Peace

BAP: Maduro Indictment is a Prelude to Panamanian-Style Racist Aggression

We must remind our people that over 150 million Africans live throughout the so-called Americas. We especially must raise this reality at critical moments like this when the corporate media and establishment opinion is legitimizing U.S. gangsterism that could kill thousands of people in Venezuela. (Black Working Class will Never Abandon Venezuela) 


BAP’s support for the people of Venezuela and its project for establishing peace, human rights and development for its people will not be deterred by the latest attack on that nation with the flimsy and incredible indictment of Nicolas Maduro by the Trump Administration. 

The use of drug and biological warfare against insurgent colonized populations has been a consistent feature of the U.S./European colonial project since 1492. As an African people in the United States, we have a long and tortured history of being on the receiving end of the U.S. state’s narco-war against our people as a weapon of counterrevolutionary subversion. 

The widespread expansion of heroin that occurred in Black communities during the period of the U.S. war against Vietnam was documented as having been facilitated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and became a convenient weapon as part of the multipronged counter-insurgency strategy of the state against the Black Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 70s. 

In the 80s, the introduction of crack cocaine into our communities was documented by courageous journalists like Gary Webb, who established that there was a relationship between the various intelligence agencies — once again primarily the CIA — and drug dealers using Nicaragua as a transit point for drugs into the U.S. The relationship was established in order to secure revenue for arms purchases to support counterrevolutionaries in Nicaragua, who were working with the U.S. to overthrow the Sandinista government that came to power in 1979. Planes would land in the U.S. full of cocaine and leave with arms for delivery back to Central America, destined for Nicaragua.    

Therefore, narco-terrorism is nothing new for our communities. After introducing dangerous drugs into our communities, the state would then wage a so-called war on drugs. The war on drugs in the U.S., as the general “war on crime,” was always intended as a weapon to wage war against the most organized elements of the Black resistance movement, just as the indictment of President Maduro is being used to undermine the revolutionary process in Venezuela.  

The charge leveled at the Venezuelan leader might have some semblance of credibility for some sectors of the U.S. population, and it will be used by the corporate press to further legitimize the illegal and murderous objectives of U.S. imperialism. However, for BAP we are quite clear about the real narco and state terrorists. 

The bounty placed on Maduro reminds us of the expansion of the bounty placed on the head of our dear sister and freedom fighter Assata Shakur and her addition as the first woman ever to the U.S. “most wanted terrorists list” by the Obama Administration. 

We were not deterred or confused by that move and we will not be confused by this one against the people of Venezuela. 

Stand in solidarity with the struggling peoples and nations of the world for peace, with people(s)-centered human rights, and a new vision of humanity beyond capitalist exploitation and imperialist domination.


No Retreat, No Compromise
Coordinating Committee, Black Alliance for Peace

Photo: BAP Coordinating Committee members in Venezuela