Black Activists Honor Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro In Harlem
“We recognize that in the person of Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, we have an exceptional leader,” said state Sen. Bill Perkins.By Roque Planas, Sept 29, 2015
NEW YORK — Black intellectuals, activists and political leaders honored Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro at the National Black Theatre in Harlem on Monday [Sept 2015], praising his left-wing government’s education and health care policies as an alternative and possible remedy to U.S. policies they say foster racism.
Maduro is one of dozens of heads of state who traveled to New York this week to speak before the annual U.N. General Assembly — and his stop in Harlem carried symbolic weight. Taking the podium in front of a banner displaying his own mustachioed image and raised fist, Maduro excoriated European colonialism and U.S.-led neoliberalism as the twin foundations of racism in the Americas. ...”
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[Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro with Opal Tometi (right), co-founder
of Black Lives Matter, in Harlem, Manhattan, December 2015.
