International Social Media Campaign Shows Solidarity with Venezuela
“I Believe in Venezuela” built an international platform on Twitter this week to express solidarity with the South American nation in light of the recent OAS Summit.
Los Angeles, June 15, 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) – With the hashtag #YoCreoEnVenezuela, people from around the world expressed their reasons for standing alongside the Venezuelan people this week. The International Network of Grassroots Communicators (Red Internacional de Comunicadores de Base) launched the campaign to mobilize across movements and protest continued foreign intervention against the region. The campaign intentionally coincided with the Organization of American States Summit in the Dominican Republic to take advantage of the regional gathering’s high profile.
El FPDS dice #YoCreoEnVenezuela y en la lucha de su pueblo, ejemplo para lxs que luchamos por socialismo desde abajo pic.twitter.com/Qb337uDSuS
— FPDS (@fpdsnacional) June 13, 2016
maduro_en: RT candangaNoticia: Comrades, let’s support the hashtag #YoCreoEnVenezuela (I believe in Venezuela) pic.twitter.com/jUsqtEI3sV
— ChavezNews (@ChaviztaNews) June 14, 2016
In a statement, the Network writes, “In Venezuela, the right-wing on a national and international level are bombarding the people of the world with false testimonies about the reality in Venezula and to counteract that their terrorist media assault, we have designed the campaign #YoCreoEnVenezuela (I Believe in Venezuela, the hashtag’s English translation).”
RT lienlalthang: #YoCreoEnVenezuela! US Hands off Venezuela! #Solidarity from #Burnaby BC Canada! #ChavezVive Mad… pic.twitter.com/bX3fRMlTlh
— ★ @ForoChavista ★ (@ForoChavista) June 13, 2016
Desde día del orgullo #LGBTQ en #Nanaimo #Canada #YoCreoEnVenezuela #Venezuela @FTT_np @vencancilleria #solidaridad pic.twitter.com/fDeEhWlbTn
— Azza ♫ عزة (@Azza_R14) June 12, 2016
The organization called on grassroots movements from countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Cuba, Spain, Africa, Russia and Palestine among others to participate. Venezuelan workers as well as a variety of the South American nation’s top officials such as Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology Jorge Arreaza and state institutions including the nationalized oil company PDVSA Gas and several embassies participated in the social media campaign as well.
maduro_en: RT CorazonDelPSUV: education workers were mobilized with joy and enthusiasm #YoCreoEnVenezuela pic.twitter.com/mDCzIMgKm6
— ChavezNews (@ChaviztaNews) June 15, 2016
El nuestro es Pueblo valiente que siempre abre caminos para la igualdad, la libertad y la Paz #YoCreoEnVenezuela pic.twitter.com/aAavhJWhgb
— Jorge Arreaza (@jaarreaza) June 14, 2016