Solidarity SVG to continue rallying in support of Venezuela
SOLIDARITY SVG, a grouping of individuals standing in support of Venezuela, has planned to continue their role in further public sensitization on the USA/Venezuela issue which escalated into a military strike on Venezuela on January 3, 2026 during which its president, Nicolas Maduro was deposed and he and his wife taken to the US to face alleged drugs-trafficking charges.
The grouping spearheaded a march on January 3, the day of the US military strike, and held a rally on Friday, January 16, 2026, with another soon to take place at the open area next to the Postal Corporation’s building in Kingstown.
Public Relations Officer, Marlon Joseph, at a press briefing last Wednesday, January 14, 2026, outlined that their engagement and activism is intended “to demonstrate solidarity to the government and people of Venezuela, and to continue our condemnation of that attack, and to call for the release of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Celia Flores, and to continue advocating for the Caribbean to remain a zone of peace”.
He said the grouping began its activism in 2017 during Donald Trump’s first term as US president when “the rhetoric against Venezuela had increased” and the US administration recognized Juan Guaido as president rather than Maduro following national elections.
“We…wanted to raise our voices to build awareness to what was taking place in Venezuela at the time. So we organized a number of activities, which included a hands -off Venezuela campaign, which included rallies and marches throughout Kingstown, but also we had some community engagement,” Joseph explained. “ We went in the communities and we had some screening of films that were geared towards…public education because we recognized that although close diplomatic relations exist between both the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and St Vincent and the Grenadines, that there was a level of genuine ignorance that Vincentians had of Venezuela…especially the reality on the ground in Venezuela, which is normally contradictory to what is portrayed in the Western media.”
A more formal structure therefore evolved, including the name, Solidarity SVG.
Speaking about the US military strike on January 3, Joseph said, “This invasion clearly violated international law. It violated the United Nations Charter, and we, being the organization that we are, Solidarity SVG, given our close ties as nation -to -nation diplomatic relations that we have with Venezuela and how we, over the years have benefited from that relationship with Venezuela… thought that we need to raise our voices to go on public record that we are going to condemn this unlawful invasion, this unlawful violation of a sovereign state’s sovereignty and a violation of their right to self -determination and, of course, their independence, because Venezuela is an independent state. Furthermore, that military intervention and interference in Venezuela also violated the Caribbean as a zone of peace”.
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