| Los Angeles County, CA | March 8, 2005 Election |
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US Hands Off Cuba and Venezuela!By Wendy LyonsCandidate for Mayor; City of Los Angeles |
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End Washington's economic war against Cuba. Halt attempts to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuela.Washington has attacked the Cuban revolution from the beginning hoping it would fail. Through their revolution the Cuban people won independence, dignity and the right to a job, decent housing, free quality medical care, and free education through the university level. Washington particularly hates the international solidarity of the Cuban revolution, solidarity that helped lead to the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa among many accomplishments. Today Cuba is extending solidarity to Venezuela. The US rulers are trying to overthrow the democratically elected regime of Hugo Chávez. The Chávez government has drawn the ire of Washington and its backers in Venezuela's capitalist class because of measures it has adopted that have threatened the prerogatives of finance capital. These have included an agrarian reform law and a bill strengthening state control of oil and other mineral resources that are part of the country's national patrimony. In fighting to implement these measures and defend their interests, working people in Venezuela have gained more self-confidence and developed higher expectations, which is what scares Washington and the Venezuelan ruling class. Cuban volunteers are in Venezuela helping to organize a literacy campaign, neighborhood clinics, and sports activities. We need to emulate the example of the Cuban revolution here in the US. For further information: http://www.themilitant.com |
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