Venezuela-United States relationship
240 Years of Shared History
Since the dawn of the American experiment, before Simon Bolivar started dreaming of his Liberation journey, there were a relationship that involved Venezuelans and Americans at least from 1783, that grew up in surprising ways in the 19th and 20th centuries, and continues deepening in the 21st century. (Picture below: Venezuelan Novelist and President Rómulo Gallegos and U.S. President Harry S. Truman, Washington DC, July 5th, 1947).
Documenting the Venezuelan -American Experience
The relationship between the United States and Venezuela, which is now 240 years old, has been one of ups and downs, but nevertheless has largely produced important fruits of mutual cooperation, as evidenced by key events and outstanding leaders and personalities that have emerged in the long history between the two nations. The Venezuelan-American Archives Foundation is an effort to document this experience.
Alfonso “Chico” Carrasquel in Chicago, 1950. Chico was a prominent short stop for the Chicago White Sox.
Francisco de Miranda statue INAUGURATED in Logan Circle, Philadelphia, IN 1977. (Image by Daderot)
Jasna Vellovic Pittman, pHD, atmospheric scientist with nasa SINCE 2006.
RAFAEL REIFF, PRESIDENT OF THE MASSACHUSSETS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT), 2012-2022.
PRESIDENTS RAFAEL CALDERA AND RICHARD NIXON IN THE WHITE HOUSE, 1970.
Proyects
Monitoring the Political and Migratory Crisis
The relationship between the United States and Venezuela thrived during the four decades of the democratic years (1959-1999), until the arrival of the so-called “Socialism of the 21st Century”. Since then, not only has Venezuela become a dictatorship that promotes drug trafficking and international terrorism, but also a source of huge corruption and laundering of funds from transnational crime. In the last 5 years, this situation has provoked a massive exodus of millions of Venezuelan migrants who have faced all kinds of dangers and threats to try to make their way to, among other destinies, the U.S. Our objective is to document and expose the dangers posed by these threats not only for the common interests of the United States and the suffering Venezuelan people, but also for the reestablishment of a constructive binational relationship for the benefit of the peoples of both nations.
Our Projects
We have been working on several ways to advance our mission. We are in the planning phase of the documentary “Walkers. Migrants From Hell”, which will collect vital testimonies from migrants that have fled the horrors of the Venezuelan Socialism. Also we are producing the Freedom Report, which monitors the status of Freedom of Speech and Human Rights abuses in the Western Hemisphere. Finally we are building an oral history database that will register testimonies from what we call the Venezuelan-American Experience. Finally, we also are working on a series of Podcasts and other multi-media projects to better serve our mission.
Location
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The Venezuelan-American Archives Foundation is a Florida registered, Miami-based organization, with an office in Washington DC and partnerships around the U.S. Every contribution we receive is tax-deductible, and will help us to fulfill this noble mission to promote a better relationship between the United States, Venezuela and the Latin America Region.
“Americans know there’s a special spirit in Venezuela, and that spirit is hard to miss when you have Tony Armas hitting towering homeruns like they were the easiest thing to do. Well, the free people of Venezuela and the United States are on the same team, and we’re up to bat.”
