On January 3, 2026, the United States launched an attack on Venezuela, resulting in the deaths of over 100 people and the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on charges of drug trafficking.
Following the attack, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that the supposed "Cartel de Los Soles," allegedly led by Maduro, was a fabrication. The real motive for the attack was access to Venezuela's oil reserves, in a move reminiscent of the Monroe Doctrine.
Join us for a screening of the documentary "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (2003), followed by a panel discussion featuring Geo Maher, author of "Building the Commune," a representative from Bloque Latinoamericano, and Cira Pascual Marquina, co-author of Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution .
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About the speakers:
Geo Maher is an abolitionist educator, organizer, and writer based in Philadelphia. He has taught previously at the University of Pennsylvania, Vassar College, Drexel University, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas, and has held visiting positions at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Decolonizing Humanities Project at the College of William & Mary, NYU’s Hemispheric Institute, and the Institute of Social Research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Bloque Latinoamericano Berlin was formed at the end of 2018 as the result of the confluence of various left-wing organizations and activists who had been working on solidarity with popular struggles in Latin America, and on the political organization of migrant, refugee and racialized people in Germany.
Cira Pascual Marquina is a member of the International Communal Democracy Network, co-author of Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution (Monthly Review Press) and of the book series Resistencia comunal frente al bloqueo imperialista (Observatorio Venezolano Antibloqueo). Together with Chris Gilbert, she served as guest editor for a special issue of Monthly Review titled “Communes and Socialist Construction” (July-August 2025)(PT).