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Scheduled demonstration in Washington by Manos fuera de Venezuela y Cuba

Campaign of solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela

Havana, Mar 30(ACN) Organizations of solidarity with Cuba and Venezuela called for an international campaign of support in the face of the US menaces and aggressions against them.

The U.S. coalition ‘Manos fuera de Venezuela y Cuba’ (Hands off of Venezuela and Cuba) made a call, in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, for all nations to organize demonstrations in front of U.S consulates and embassies to protest against the aggressive policy towards those two nations.

According to Prensa Latina, the appeal states that the US government, helped by political parties represented in the Congress, has increased its interventionist and hostile policy against the Cuban and Venezuelan governments.

The demonstrators should also ask for the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, responsible for the attack on a Cuban aircraft in which 73 people died in 1976, to be extradited to Venezuela, as the Venezuelan government is requesting.

The action also supports the liberation of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in US jails and the closing of the prison camp based in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuban territory illegally occupied by the US.

The demand also includes the devolution of that territory to Cuba and the cessation of intervention by Washington in Latin America and the Caribbean.

It also accuses Washington of encouraging and supporting the coup d'etat in Venezuela on April 2002, that was defeated by a massive popular uprising that brought back Hugo Chavez to the presidency.

One of the actions scheduled is a march in Washington demanding the cessation of intervention and hostile campaigns against Venezuela.

The coalition is made up by the Círculos Bolivarianos of Minneapolis, New York, Connecticut, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Oregon, Boston, Miami, Canada and Italy.

Among the other supporting organizations are the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, A.N.S.W.E.R, Casa de las Americas, Colombia Action Network, the US Communist Party, Dominican Friends of Cuba, FMLN and FSLN of New York, the Frente Socialista de Puerto Rico, Fuerza de la Revolution, Haiti-Cuba-Venezuela Project, Pastors for Peace, the Dominican Popular Movement and committees for the liberation of five Cuban antiterrorist fighters imprisoned in the US.




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