The whole world was monitoring the high-stakes Venezuelan presidential election on August 28, not only because the country boasts of the planet’s largest oil reserves but also because it has been an exemplar of independent sovereignty from the US empire.
Corporate media coverage of the election and its aftermath was akin to an investigation of a homicide that is focused not with identifying the murderer but with an unpaid parking ticket of the victim.
Our speaker, Roger D. Harris, accompanied the election in Venezuela and will report back on what happened there as well as on Washington’s campaign to delegitimize the country’s Bolivarian Revolution with the ultimate aim of regime change.
Roger on the executive committee of the US Peace Council was on their delegation to Venezuela. He is on the ICSS program committee that has for over a decade and a half presented the weekly Sunday Morning at the Marxist Library series. He is active with the anti-imperialist human rights group Task Force on the Americas, the SanctionsKill Campaign against unilateral coercive measures, and is a founding member of the Venezuela Solidarity Network.
Recent articles by Roger on Venezuela include:
- CNN’s Fraudulent Analysis of Fraud in the Venezuelan Presidential Election https://libya360.wordpress.com/2024/08/15/cnns-fraudulent-analysis-of-fraud-in-the-venezuelan-presidential-election/
- Media Coverage of Venezuela’s Presidential Election Normalizes US Interference https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/12/media-coverage-of-venezuelas-presidential-election-normalizes-us-interference/
- Venezuelans to Vote on Continuing the Bolivarian Revolution https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/venezuelans-to-vote-on-continuing-the-bolivarian-revolution/
- How Venezuela Is Overcoming the US Blockade https://www.pressenza.com/2024/06/how-venezuela-is-overcoming-the-us-blockade/
