Today the Citizens Embassy of Venezuela in the United States launches the project “Phone Calls for Freedom” (Telefonazo por la Patria in Spanish). Last week, the emissaries of the so-called Interim Government of Venezuela were in Washington DC. There they held a series of meetings with US government officials in which these false dissidents sold the lie that the Venezuelan people support elections and cohabitation with the usurper regime that handed over Venezuela’s sovereignty to the Cuban army.
Below is a list of 29 individuals who either work in the US State Department or in Congress. The State Department case officers are assigned to Venezuelan affairs while the members of Congress are on the congressional committees that deal with the Western hemisphere and Latin America. Quite literally, these are the people who form and guide United States policy on Venezuela.
Phone Calls for Freedom is your opportunity as a Venezuelan to directly contact members of the North American government and tell them the truth: Venezuela will never be free by pretending to have democratic elections with a barbaric dictatorship, and especially not while foreign troops occupy Venezuela in support of that dictatorship, and certainly not with US taxpayers paying a false opposition to lose on purpose. All Americans and Venezuelans inside the United States are encouraged to call these individuals on the phone. (Remember, in the US people have the right to lobby their government to change its policies.) All Venezuelans and supporters of Venezuelan freedom located outside the US are strongly encouraged to directly contact these people by email or with a message on social media.
Friday July 2 is the last day of the project. That’s the last Friday before the July 4th national holiday in the US. Then, on July 5, Venezuela’s National Day, Juan Guaidó will convene his “citizen assemblies” to “ratify” the National Salvation Agreement, which is actually just an agreement for the salvation of the chavista regime and its guardians in the false opposition.
It’s not easy taking time out of your week to call 29 people, but it’s even more difficult trying to live off of two dollars a day while the National Guard, the Special Action Forces, and the Collectives continue killing our citizens, and both the usurper dictator and the so-called Interim President keep promising vaccines that never come. It’s time for the Venezuelan people to say ENOUGH! No one is coming to free us, so it’s time that we free ourselves in the same manner that the Romanian people freed themselves from Nicolae Ceausescu.
Instructions
- Communicate directly with each of the public officials and their offices. Use all means of communication available (phone call + email + messages on social media).
- If you’re in the United States, call the listed congressmen at their Washington office and also at their district office in their home state. If you want to make calls from abroad, the international US code is +1.
- On all emails and messages on social networks, include a selfie photo with your Venezuelan ID or passport or your US or state photo ID where the data is clear, to verify that you are a real person and not a bot. (You’re sending this to government officials, not to random people on the Internet.)
- Make a short video for social media saying that you participated in the Phone Calls for Freedom for Venezuela campaign because there can be no democracy under a dictatorship and a foreign military occupation.
The 5 key demands to communicate
- NO to the “National Salvation Agreement”. We do not want elections with the regime. They have never respected the results of the elections: neither the 2004 referendum, nor the 2007 reform, nor the 2015 parliamentary elections, nor the 2017 regional ones.
- Juan Guaidó no longer represents the Venezuelan people. He sold his town to the regime to enrich himself with the other corrupt ones. We no longer support or acknowledge it. Leopoldo López is another cohabiting scammer and he doesn’t represent us either.
- Instead another absurd call for elections, we want all Cuban soldiers, Russian soldiers, Colombian guerrillas, members of Hezbollah, and Mexican drug traffickers to leave Venezuela immediately. They are all invaders.
- We want to dismantle the PSUV party-state and the Suns Cartel, just as the National Socialist party-state was dismantled in Germany in 1945. They are not a government, they are a mafia. End of story.
- We respectfully demand that the US stop funding the false opposition (a.k.a. the “Interim Government”) immediately and that the State Department abandon the talks on more elections with the regime and, instead, to focus on pressing for the immediate withdrawal of all the Cubans and Russian troops from Venezuela. We’re not asking for a US intervention, but for the troops who already invaded our country to LEAVE.
List of public servants to contact
Name: Tim Enright
Position: Undetermined
Office / section: Office of Europe, the Western Hemisphere, and Africa, US State Department
Phone: 202-485-1707
Name: Carmen Muñoz
Position: Desk Officer – Venezuela
Office / section: Office of Andean Affairs, US State Department
Phone: 202-647-1720
Social media 1: https://twitter.com/CarmenMunozMelz
Social media 2: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmen-mu%C3%B1oz-30a15325
Name: Johanna Diaz
Position: Desk Officer – Venezuela
Office / section: Office of Andean Affairs, US State Department
Phone: 202-647-3338
Email: diazj@state.gov
Name: Caitlin Cetola
Position: Desk Officer – Venezuela
Office / section: Office of Andean Affairs, US State Department
Phone: 202-647-0464
Name: Amy Archibald
Position: Director of the Venezuela Working Group
Office / section: Office of Andean Affairs, US State Department
Phone: 202-647-3143
Email: ArchibaldAE@state.gov
Name: Marlaina Casey
Position: Deputy Director of the Venezuela Working Group
Office / section: Office of Andean Affairs, US State Department
Phone: 202-647-4984
Social media 1: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marlaina-casey-309b971b
Name: Julie Chung
Position: Acting Assistant Secretary
Office / section: Office of Andean Affairs, US State Department
Phone: 202-647-8387
Social media 1: https://twitter.com/WHAAsstSecty
Name: James Story
Position: US Ambassador to Venezuela
Office / section: US State Department
Email: storyj@state.gov
Social media 1: https://twitter.com/usembassyve
Social media 2: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-story-a4968a6
Name: Tim Kaine
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-4024
Phone (District office): 804-771-2221
Social media 1: https://twitter.com/timkaine
Social media 2: https://www.facebook.com/SenatorKaine/
Name: Marco Rubio
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-3041
Phone (district office): 305-596-4224
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/SenatorMarcoRubio
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/SenRubioPress
Name: Jeff Merkley
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-3753
Phone (district office): 503-326-3386
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/jeffmerkley
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley
Name: Rob Portman
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-3353
Phone (district office): 614-469-6774
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/senrobportman/
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/senrobportman
Name: Benjamin Cardin
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-4524
Phone (district office): 410-962-4436
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/senatorbencardin
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/SenatorCardin
Name: John Barrasso
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-6441
Phone (district office): 307-261-6413
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/johnbarrasso
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/senjohnbarrasso
Name: Jeanne Shaheen
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-2841
Phone (district office): 603-647-7500
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/SenatorShaheen
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/SenatorShaheen
Name: Bill Haggerty
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-4944
Phone (district office): 615-736-5129
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/SenatorBillHagerty/
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/SenatorHagerty
Name: Edward Markey
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-2742
Phone (district office): 617-565-8519
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/EdJMarkey
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/SenMarkey
Name: Ted Cruz
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-5922
Phone (district office): 713-718-3057
Social media 1: http://www.facebook.com/SenatorTedCruz
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz
Name: Roberto Menendez
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-4744
Phone (district office): 973-645-3030
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/senatormenendez
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/SenatorMenendez
Name: James Risch
Position: Senator
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Relations, US Senate
Phone (Washington): 202-224-2752
Phone (district office): 208-342-7985
Social media 1: https://twitter.com/SenatorRisch
Social media 2: https://www.youtube.com/user/SenatorJamesRisch
Name: Albio Sires
Position: Congressman
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Phone (Washington): 202-225-7919
Phone (district office): 201-309-0301
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Albio-Sires/81058818750
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/RepSires
Name: Mark Green
Position: Congressman
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Phone (Washington): 202-225-2811
Phone (district office): 931-266-4483
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/RepMarkGreenTN/
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/repmarkgreen
Name: Joaquin Castro
Position: Congressman
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Phone (Washington): 202-225-3236
Phone (district office): 210-348-8216
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/JoaquinCastroTX/
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/JoaquinCastrotx
Name: August Pfluger
Position: Congressman
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Phone (Washington): 202-225-3605
Phone (district office): 432-331-9667
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/RepAugustPfluger
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/RepPfluger
Name: Andy Levin
Position: Congressman
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Phone (Washington): 202-225-4961
Phone (district office): 586-498-7122
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/repandylevin
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/repandylevin
Name: Maria Elvira Salazar
Position: Congressman
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Phone (Washington): 202-225-3931
Phone (district office): 305-668-2285
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/mariaelvirasalazar/
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/RepMariaSalazar
Name: Juan Vargas
Position: Congressman
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Phone (Washington): 202-225-8045
Phone (district office): 619-422-5963
Social media 1: https://www.facebook.com/RepJuanVargas/
Social media 2: https://twitter.com/RepJuanVargas
Name: Vicente Gonzalez
Position: Congressman
Office / section: Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives
Phone (Washington): 202-225-2531
Phone (district office): 888-217-0261
Email: TX15DCOfficeMail@mail.house.gov
Social media 1: http://twitter.com/RepGonzalez
Social media 2: http://instagram.com/repvicentegonzaleztx/
Name: Chandler Smith
Position: Legislative Director
Office / section: Office of Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (Washington)
Phone: 202-377-9719
Email: Chandler.Smith@mail.house.gov
We reiterate: It’s time for the Venezuelan people to say ENOUGH! No more phony elections, no more international mediators, no more stealing from US taxpayers and needy Venezuelans. No one is coming to free us, so it’s time that We the People of Venezuela free ourselves in the same manner that the Romanian people freed themselves from Nicolae Ceausescu.