Female-Latin American- leaders highlight Venezuela's resilience in the face of US attacks

Leaders from Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador expressed their support for Venezuela in the face of the financial blockade and the illegal economic sanctions imposed on the South American nation by the United States government and its allies in the region and in Europe.

Since the XXIV Annual Meeting of the Forum of Sao Paulo, which takes place in Havana, Cuba, Dilma Rousseff, who was illegally removed from the Brazilian presidency by a parliamentary coup in 2016, expressed her admiration for the capacity of resistance and struggle that the Venezuelan people have.

"Venezuela has demonstrated an immense capacity for resistance in the face of an absolutely disproportionate force that was presented by the United States, and now with the government of (Donald) Trump with threats of military intervention," Rousseff said, through a video broadcast by the official Twitter account of the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry.

Another regional leader who raised her voice was the Colombian human rights fighter, Piedad Córdoba, who called on all Venezuelans to resist, "everything is the product of an inhumane blockade that not only affects leaders but the Venezuelan people", says the ex-senator in a video that the Venezuelan chancellery broadcast.

He also joined the words of solidarity with Venezuela, Gabriela Rivadeneira, a militant of the Citizen Revolution in the Republic of Ecuador, which sent a message of strength, peace and firmness to take the neoliberal attacks.

"A lot of strength before this blockade that they are suffering, we know that with the leadership that is being implemented with the partner (Nicolás) Maduro and those from other areas assuming the leadership of Venezuela and that the commander (Hugo) Chávez left, they are going to get ahead, hug and strength, "he emphasized.

Members of parties and political movements of the left and progressives of Latin America and the Caribbean began this Sunday in Havana, Cuba, the XXIV Annual Meeting of the Forum of Sao Paulo, meeting that will last until Tuesday, July 17th.

The event will involve progressive and left-wing delegations from 113 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, will open a space for criticism and construction of new perspectives with the aim of re-impelling the struggle of sovereign nations before the imperial maneuvers to submit to the region.

According to the organizing committee of the meeting, the debates will be aimed at highlighting the role of the left in the unity of the Latin American revolutionary movement.

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