Minister for Europe meets solidarity campaigners in London
- 26 October 2006
On
18 September, Rodrigo Cháves, the Venezuelan foreign affairs minister
for Europe, met with representatives from various solidarity campaigns
who do work with Venezuela, including HOV, Global Women's Strike, VSC,
VICUK and the Isaías Medina Angarita Bolivarian Circle.
HOV
founder Alan Woods led a call for greater unity between the campaigns,
unity that has been conspicuous by its absence of late. We
will always have differences of opinion, he said, but these are
irrelevant when confronted with the bigger picture of providing the
Bolivarian revolution with the support it needs. This is particularly important with the upcoming presidential elections.
Rodrigo Cháves echoed this view, stressing that unity was vital. We need to "de-institutionalise" solidarity, he emphasised. In the run up to the elections, let us hope that this call is heeded.
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