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Solidarity Center, what are you up to in Venezuela? WE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!
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There is a long history of AFLCIO support for foreign coups via the Solidarity Center and its predecessors. Examples include Guatemala in 1954, Chile in 1973, and Haiti in 2004. In 2002, the Solidarity Center partnered with the Center for International Private Enterprise and the International Republican Institute to support a failed attempt to overthrow Venezuela’s elected government. Today it continues to work with the same coup plotters it funded more than 20 years ago. We must demand better! Please send the following email to the AFLCIO and Solidarity Center.
We are workers and defenders of democracy, human, and labor rights. We walk picket lines and NEVER cross them. We are unions’ staunchest allies. But we are alarmed to hear that the AFLCIO’s Solidarity Center may be supporting foreign electoral interference and regime change. US labor is better than that!
We know that the Solidarity Center does some good work. But we are concerned that the Solidarity Center does not listen to or represent workers. Rather, it is 90 to 95% funded by the US government and operates in the shadows, with only vague information, at best, available about its activities. Despite the good work, it has been and still can be a channel for US regime change activities abroad. We had hoped those days were done. But the Solidarity Center's continued activities in Venezuela cause us great concern. This is the same office and some of the same people who funded the 2002 Venezuela coup plotters. Despite numerous requests, the Solidarity Center will not release details about its activities there, and is more secretive than ever about what it is up to.
Therefore, we demand that:
The Solidarity Center disclose who their partners are in Venezuela, how much funding they are providing, and what projects they are supporting;
The Solidarity Center and the AFLCIO denounce the inhumane sanctions and blockade against Venezuela;
The AFLCIO commit to non-intervention in foreign electoral affairs and never again support coups against elected governments;
The Solidarity Center open its books on activities past, present, and future, and end its 95% dependence on US government funding.