2015 27th March Meeting - Lessons from Chile

Lessons from Chile:

Intervention and destabilisation in Venezuela

Friday 27^th March, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm)

University of Bradford Main Richmond Building Room E59 BD7 1DP

Viva! Bradford invites you to a very special opportunity to hear about what’s happening in Venezuela, with Marcos Garcia, Venezuelan Embassy, formerly a Venezuelan diplomat in Washington and trade union leader, and Dr. Francisco Dominguez, political refugee from the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, head of Latin American Studies at Middlesex University, and co-author of 'Right Wing Politics in the New Latin America.

Chaired by Fiona Macauley, Bradford Peace Studies. Download the flyer here.

Recent weeks have seen warnings of a coup in Venezuela as increased evidence of anti-democratic, right-wing destabilisation plans has coincided with economic sabotage and further US sanctions on Venezuela.

President Correa of Ecuador has commented that “After the elections in March 1973 in Chile, the defeated bourgeoisie chose the path of economic war to overthrow Allende: stockpiling, speculation, and so on,” and that “the resemblance is striking with what is happening now in Venezuela.”

Come to this event to learn what is happening in Venezuela, what has been achieved in universal services and rights, why daily life has become more difficult in an ‘economic war’, how we can help avert another Chile.

An event for all supporters of democratic change, organised by Viva! Bradford and the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, and hosted by Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. The speakers Marcos and Francisco are in Yorkshire at the invitation of the regional TUC: this is the only opportunity to hear them publicly outside London.