Political Declaration of the "European conference in solidarity with the agrarian and popular struggles, and in support of the talks for Peace with Social Justice in Colombia."

Dublin, April 20-21, 2013

Source: Paul Dobson in Venezuela

"The U.S. intervention in Venezuelan internal affairs in recent months, and particularly during the election campaign, has been brutal, vulgar" denounced President Maduro this week, in response to interventionary statements from the White House, from the US sponsored Human Rights Watch, and from private US media outlets which openly called for a coup d'état against the democratically elected President.

By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine - Leer el artículo en español aquí.

The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver.

Here is the letter we sent with others to the Colombian government and to the FARC on the subject of peace negotiations and the response from FARC:

PEACE IN COLOMBIA: A PROCESS WHICH WE SHOULD SUPPORT

We, social organisations, political parties, trade unions, movements and individuals, signatories of this appeal, support and consider the initiation of the present dialogue between the Colombian Government and the insurgent Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia FARC-EP, under the auspices of the governments of Cuba and Norway, and with the accompaniment of Venezuela and Chile, to be a matter of the most vital importance, on political, social and humanitarian grounds.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/open-honest-dialog-cuba-government-secure-release-american-operative-alan-gross/qcZC2pG2?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Dear all, Teresita the Cuban ambassador asked us to help the Miami five... please go to the above url address in order to sign up a petition for the release of the Miami 5 a very high profile case we should all support. For more info you can check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Five

Please circulate this petition if you can and sign up please.

President Obama's crass comments about newly-elected Chavez only serve to further alienate himself from Latin America.

Adrian Kane, Sector Organiser with SIPTU travelled to Venezuela as an observer during the recent Presidential Election. Here is his report:

Yesterday peace talks between the Santos Government and the FARC guerrillas began in Oslo, Norway. We of course hope that these talks lead to a just and lasting peace. But there are some important reasons to believe these talks may be prolonged and peace in the Colombian countryside still far away. President Juan Manuel Santos indicated a few weeks ago, and his government's chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle Lombana, said yesterday, that the government wishes to conclude a peace agreement within a few months.