This is a beginnings of a photo gallery of my August 2003 trip to Venezuela.
Acto for people following Bolívar's path, "¡En Bolívar nos encontramos todos! Campaña Admirable"
Plaza Bellas Artes.
Corina and Alex talking to each other on their cell phones.
Comité de Tierra meeting.
Misión Robinson literacy campaign training. Our transportation for the day was a Batallon Caracas truck.
Kids in Barrio Progreso.
Llaguno Bridge where snippers fired on Chavez supporters, April 22, 2002. "Los que mueren por la vida no pueden llamarse muertos." Honor y gloria a los caidos defendiendo la constitución bolivariana y el gobierno revolucionario. 11-04-2002.
Mural "No hay pueblo vencido" in Barrio 23 de enero.
Mural in Barrio La Pastora for Miguel Vives, social worker who was killed on Feb 16, 1997. "Aquí estamos nostros los muertos de siempre, que mueren otra vez, pero ahora para vivir."
"Toda nuestra acción es un grito de guerra contra el imperialismo y un clamor por la unidad de los pueblos, contra el gran enemigo del genero humano: Los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica." The painter explained that Che was talking about the U.S. government not the U.S. public. I noted that the Bush administration's neoliberal economic policies and wars of imperialist agression have also made it the enemy of people in the U.S.
"La nueva Venezuela esta en marcha. La oposición quiere pararla. ¡No lo permitas! PPT"
Abrebrecha cultural center works with art and music in order to advance Venezuela's political culture.
María León, President, Instituto Nacional de la Mujer (INAMUJER).
Wally presents Oakland city council statement on Venezuela to the Caracas municipal government.
Music group plays for us after Comité de Tierras meeting in Barrio Pinto Salinas as Wally and Corina dance.
Nicia Maldonado Yuluraweni, Coordinadora General del Consejo Nacional Indio de Venezuela (CONIVE).
Meetings with Diputados Adel El Zabayar Samara and Saúl Antonio Ortega Campos, with Wally presenting a copy of the Oakland city council statement to the later.
Braulio Alvarez, Director Nacional, Instituto Nacional de Tierras (INTI).
Diputado Ricardo Gutiérrez, First Vicepresident of the National Assembly, holds a copy of the new 1999 constitution.