Forget Europe, forget North America and the rest of the West, it’s the … Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and President Nicolas Maduro who issued a very warm message of solidarity to the “capital controlled” Greek people this week.

“We’ll win” was the rally cry of Hugo Chavez’s successor from tropical Caracas. “Don’t be afraid, Greeks, our brothers,” said the Chavista leader of shortage-plagued but oil-laden Venezuela.

Maduro, a former bus driver turned unionist turned presidente, also said the road is open to “break the chains” binding Greece with the international credit system and the IMF.

“Let’s throw off the yoke that sucks the blood of peoples, the labor of peoples and the wealth of nations,” was Maduro’s revolutionary exhortation.

In opening his comments, Maduro expressed the solidarity of the “Bolivarian” and “Chavista” people of Venezuela to Greek PM Alexis Tsipras, the radical leftist SYRIZA party and the Greek people.

Here’s the vid, en español