Pro-Maduro groups protesting Trump’s actions in socialist country include Soros-backed organization

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One of the groups organizing protests against President Donald Trump’s capture of Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro is a group funded by the George Soros -linked Open Society Foundation. Trump’s invasion of Venezuela’s capital city, Caracas, and subsequent arrest of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Saturday, garnered quick condemnation from a handful of groups, including some calling themselves the No War on Venezuela Coalition. In a flyer posted by the Soros-funded Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), the coalition called for global protests at U.S. embassies, military bases, city halls and other sites to "defend Venezuelan sovereignty and right to resist." The AFGJ flyer stated that "We, the undersigned anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations, condemn the U.S. violent attacks on the rights of Venezuelans, and violations of Venezuela’s sovereignty." SECOND FRONT: HOW A SOCIALIST CELL IN THE US MOBILIZED PRO-MADURO FOOT SOLDIERS WITHIN 12 HOURS The coalition urged "mass resistance" against the administration’s actions, telling people to "take to the streets, organize rallies and teach-ins on your university campuses, mobilize in your unions to demonstrate solidarity and shut down the supply chains of imperialism, including resolutions, pickets and protests outside of arms factories and ports that are providing the weapons for this aggression." It especially urged those outside the U.S. to target "U.S. embassies, U.S. military bases and diplomatic installations around the world." According to the website of the Open Society Foundation, a philanthropic network founded by Soros and currently led by his son, Alex Soros, the group donated $250,000 to AFGJ in 2020. The description listed for the donation on the website was "to catalyze Black communities into the global movement for climate justice ." AFGJ has been a staunch critic of the Trump administration. In a Tuesday statement, the group wrote that the "War against Venezuela is against Us All." MA…