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Time to end the US blockage against Venezuela | Ken Livingstone

Opposing US and UK sanction on Venezuela will remain a top international priority in 2023, writes Ken Livingstone AS Venezuela enters the latter half of President Nicolas Maduro’s second term in office, the time is ripe for an overview of where the country currently stands, especially regarding ongoing attempts from the US and its allies …

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VIDEO: Free Alex Saab!

For our new monthly YouTube show, we interviewed our Secretary Francisco Dominguez on the importance of the Alex Saab case. For more info on the international campaign see https://afgj.org/free-alex-saab

The U.S. flies Alex Saab out from Cabo Verde without court order or extradition treaty

By Dan Kovalik, originally for the Council for Hemispheric Affairs On October 16, Colombian businessman and Venezuelan Special EnvoyAlex Saab was in practical terms kidnapped for the second time, first byCabo Verde under pressure from Washington, and now by the U.S., inflagrant violation of international law. For nearly a year and a half, Saab had …

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Understanding Maduro’s successful socialist economic strategy

By Francisco Dominguez, for The Morning Star In its intensely biased coverage of Venezuela during the hard years of 2014-21 the mainstream media wheeled in every imaginable academic pundit to “demonstrate” that the country’s economic woes were the result of President Nicolas Maduro overseeing Venezuela’s slide “into authoritarianism and economic collapse” (the Guardian, January 24 …

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Venezuela slams former senior US official John Bolton after coup plot admission

Venezuela’s national assembly president Jorge Rodriguez condemned former US national security adviser John Bolton after his recent admission that he had helped plan coups in other countries. Mr Rodriguez branded the former US government official “crazy” and said that “Venezuela will never surrender” after the candid remarks made by Mr Bolton in an interview with …

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