Happy new Year!  This year we are planning a youth-oriented cultural exchange trip featuring the Afro-Venezuelan area in Venezuela known as Barlovento.  Please visit  our website to get some information about Venezuela and our last trip in 2007.  It will be edited soon to give you more information about the tributes to Afro-Venezuelans and the culture that we witnessed in 2007 and hope introduce you to in 2009.  Website:  www.freewebs.com/mtvenezuela                      www.usven.net Read More U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange Labor delegation to Venezuela and Colombia - March 21, to April 4, 2009 US/Cuba Labor   Exchange   P.O. Box 39188 Redford, MI 48239 -Phone 313 575 4933- E-mail:  laborexchange@aol.com Read More April (8-18), 2009 Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food Sovereignty & Social Change April Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food Sovereignty & Social Change The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY invites you to join us in April for a 10-day trip to Venezuela examining advances in food sovereignty and other initiatives for social change. Start off in the capital city of Caracas, then travel to four additional states, including visits to newly formed cooperative farms and rural development projects in the countryside; Read More June 17-26, 2009 Delegation to Venezuela 10 YEARS OF THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION VENEZUELA An inspiration or a failure? Democracy or dictatorship? A hope or a threat? June 17-26, 2009 There’s only one way to know what is REALLY happening in Venezuela . GO THERE! Read More U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange Labor delegation to Venezuela and Colombia - October (10-24), 2009 US/Cuba Labor   Exchange P.O. Box 39188 Redford, MI 48239 -Phone 313 575 4933- E-mail:  laborexchange@aol.com   Join the U.S./Cuba Labor Exchange to participate in a: Labor delegation to Venezuela and Colombia from: Saturday, October 10 to Saturday, October  24, 2009- 2 weeks $1,650 * This *includes round trip airfare from New York City or Los Angeles, CA* Read More Report on MITF Venezuela Delegation Aug. 9-19, 2008 by Chuck Kaufman  The Marin Interfaith Task Force on the Americas delegation to Venezuela was co-sponsored by SOA Watch and the Venezuela Solidarity Network, but except when helping out delegation leader Lisa Sullivan when requested, it was my vacation and I enjoyed not having to be responsible for the 21 people on the tour.  The group was enriched by the participation of two young men from Portugal and an older couple who fled the repression in Argentina in 1975.   We spent little time in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, having only four meetings. We met with the North American section of the Foreign Ministry where I was able to give them our VSN proposal for them to set up an office in Venezuela to coordinate international solidarity in order to greatly increase the number of people who can visit Venezuela and witness the incredible things that are going on there with their own eyes.  Curiously, the Portuguese guys three week visit was planned for them by the European section of the Foreign Ministry and they even picked them up at the airport.  So, it is something of a mystery that they don’t seem as interested in getting US citizens down there considering that the greatest threat to the Bolivarian process comes from the US government.  Lisa got a call from the Foreign Ministry a couple of days later and was told that they are taking our proposal seriously. Read More V enezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution continues to capture the imagination of those looking for new models of hope, dignity and sovereignty in Latin America, while defying categories and expectations. Read More If you are interested in traveling to Venezuela on a VSN delegation, please send your name, dates you’d be available to travel, and contact information to VSN<at>afgj.org. VSN participated in the June 27 - July 2, 2007 US Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia! Click here to find out what went on during the USSF! Click here to view photos from the USSF! We’re Back from the VSN Delegation to Venezuela! June 30 to July 8, 2007 Venezuela Click here to read a report on the delegation!