by Vijay Prashad Hugo Chávez knew that Venezuela was very vulnerable. Its oil revenues account for 98 percent of its export earnings. Chávez was familiar with the thinking of Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, Venezuela’s minister of mines and hydrocarbons in the early 1960s and one of the architects of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting …
A meeting between Guaido’s team and the US Southern Command is being organised. By Paul Dobson for Venezuelanalysis Self-declared “Interim President” Juan Guaido has ordered the setting up of a meeting with the US Armed Forces to discuss “cooperation” in his efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro. During a gathering of supporters in the upper …
By Max Blumenthal, Thegrayzone.com The Washington, DC-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) hosted a private roundtable on April 10 called “Assessing the Use of Military Force in Venezuela.” A list of attendees was provided to The Grayzone and two participants confirmed the meeting took place. They refused to offer any further …
The Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), representing over 540,000 trade unionists in Scotland, has reaffirmed its support for the Bolivarian Revolution in the face of aggressive US-led efforts at regime change in Venezuela. An emergency motion proposed by Unison Scotland and seconded by RMT Scotland was carried unanimously at the STUC 122nd Annual Congress in …
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The mainstream media has been obsessed with Venezuela for weeks, and not in a good way. Its infatuation with the “humanitarian crisis” and opposition has left Venezuelans who defend their country’s sovereignty and elected government being ignored. This video report from Redfish & Alborada films looks into what is really happening on the ground in …
By Mark Weisbrot In the early 1970s, a handful of Sandinistas were in the mountains of Nicaragua fighting to overthrow the 40-year U.S.-backed, brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family. When a powerful volcanic eruption struck Nicaragua in 1971, Sandinista Omar Cabezas later recounted, they told the peasants whom they encountered that God was punishing them …
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JUST 48 per cent of my constituents are white British born like me. The majority are from all corners of the world. Kensington has given refuge to families fleeing war, religious and political persecution and severe economic deprivation. Growing up in the area I now represent and listening to their stories has given me a …
We condemn the decision of the Bank of England to refuse to return to Venezuela billions of dollars of its gold deposited there. This echoes the decision of Donald Trump to impose tough economic sanctions on Venezuela to try to enforce unlawful regime change. The Venezuelan gold deposited in the Bank of England is the …
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By Matt Willgress Recent developments in Venezuela have been the culmination of intensifying hostility from the US administration over several months. This aggressive agenda has included increasingly harsh sanctions aimed at putting Venezuela under siege, and comments from Trump himself, Vice- President Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, among others, that have included threats …
YOU won’t read about it much in those parts of the media currently arguing for war on Venezuela, but when Hugo Chavez first became president in 1999, Venezuela had endured a wave of economic and social catastrophes in the preceding two decades. Up to seven in 10 people had been left in poverty. Income per …
