Latin American Social Groups Meet in Costa Rica to Show Solidarity With Venezuela

Latin American social movements met in Costa Rica Friday to reiterate their support for the sovereignty of Venezuela and their rejection of military threats and intervention by the United States against the South American nation.

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Trade unions and social organizations met in the Central American capital of San Jose during the first "Mesoamerican and Caribbean Meeting for Peace and Dignity in Bolivarian Venezuela."

The call, made by trade unions, student movements, environmentalists, community movements and political parties, was made to demand the United States stop the interference, pressures, and threats of military intervention against Venezuela.

The participants urged the government of Costa Rica and its Foreign Minister Manuel Gonzalez to cease "their crude, irresponsible and without factual and legal content intervention in the process of dialogue in Venezuela."

A statement released at the end of the meeting stated it was their "duty to support the Venezuelan people facing a brutal aggression of Yankee imperialism and a stateless, fascist and criminal bourgeoisie."

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The text also stated that the Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly is "an irrevocable sign of democratic, sovereign and self-determination plenitude" by the people of Venezuela.

"As the Constituent Assembly is only drafting the new Constitution, and the people need to approve it by referendum, it shows the absence of a supposed coup d'état or dictatorship, since there is no greater legal symbol of democracy than the constituent original power," the organizations said in the statement.

They stated they supported the people of Venezuela and acknowledged the legacy of Simon Bolivar.

"We are close to the Venezuelan people because the Bolivarian Revolution is a legitimate heir of the ideas of the liberator and the tradition forged by the combatants and martyrs of the struggle for freedom and independence," the statement concluded.