Venezuela: Global peasants’ movement Via Campesina urges support for revolution, government

Venezuela: Global peasants’ movement Via Campesina urges support for revolution, government
Thursday, April 3, 2014

Via Campesina is a global organisation of peasants and one of the largest and most significant international social movements. The statement below in solidarity with Venezuela’s revolution and peasants was released by its International Coordinating Commission of Via Campesina International, which met in Managua, Nicaragua on March 29.

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We, Via Campesina Internacional, the international peasant movement that brings together over 200 million families in 77 countries, express our solidarity with the Venezuelan people, their peasant movement and the Bolivarian revolution.

The revolution is the victim of an imperialist crusade that, together with reactionary right-wing forces, conspires within Venezuela and abroad in a bid to retake the power they lost legitimately, democratically, and repeatedly at the ballot box.

Those of us who struggle for social justice, land reform, and food sovereignty consider the Bolivarian revolution a reference for social transformation and inclusion. As women, youth, rural workers, fisherfolk, indigenous peoples, and migrants, we reject all media-backed attempts at coup d etats.

They seek to place into the collective imagination the image of demonstrators frustrated with the consequences of an economic war being imposed on Venezuela by powerful oligarchical, fascist, and imperialist sectors — all aimed at destabilising the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

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