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🚨🇻🇪 HAPPENING NOW! New York City projects a message of solidarity with Venezuela and their democratic process, saying “Hands Off Venezuela! No to US intervention! Lift the sanctions!” The U.S. has imposed hundreds of economic sanctions and coercive measures on Venezuela, specifically designed to create economic suffering, hunger, social instability, and emigration. This week the U.S. State Department employed one of their much-used tactics to undermine Venezuelan sovereignty by declaring that right wing opposition candidate Edmundo González had won, contradicting the official election results. People in Venezuela are taking to the streets to defend their Bolivarian Revolution, and people around the world stand with Venezuela’s sovereignty and demand that the U.S. stop interfering in their democracy. #HandsOffVenezuela