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“Take Montreal, for example,” says Janicke. “Meetings were sponsored by all three local groups: the Bolivarian Society, Hands Off Venezuela, and the Peace Base, with strong presence and moral support from the local Venezuelan consulate. Federico and I had fruitful discussions with consular and embassy representatives in Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto, and we distributed many copies of the embassy’s excellent publication, The Bolivarian.

The nature of events varied widely. “There were graduate seminars and open campus meetings; union gatherings and city-wide events,” says tour organizer Suzanne Weiss. “Federico and Kiraz related the Bolivarian process to Venezuela’s support for world struggles: Haiti and Bolivia (in Vancouver), Palestine (in Waterloo), Indigenous nations (in Kingston).”