Venezuelans will suffer more under the impact of a fully-fledged US blockade, writes Ken Livingstone President Trump has recently imposed sweeping new sanctions against Venezuela in his bid to oust the elected government of President Maduro. The embargo measures now constitute a fully-fledged economic blockade of the type employed against Cuba since the early 1960s. …
Briefing: The effects of the economic blockade of Venezuela Download and view this briefing as a pdf The blockade in context The U.S. has been pursuing a strategy of ‘regime change’ through destabilising Venezuela dating back to the early years of Hugo Chávez’s presidency. This led George W. Bush’s administration to support the failed coup …
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By John McEvoy for Venezuelanalysis.com After Juan Guaidó declared himself Venezuelan president on 23 January, the opposition leader immediately sought to legitimise his parallel government by garnering international support. The US, most European states, and large parts of Latin America moved swiftly to recognise Venezuela’s new “interim president” (indeed, US Vice President Mike Pence had …
https://youtu.be/FdWpm9ybHwU Speaking to The Real News Network, CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot responds to Guaidó economic advisors’ dismissal of the U.S. sanctions’ effects on Venezuela
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 …
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 …
Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humour in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was played; a woman, Katarina, stood and sang with a husky contralto. “What did her words say?” …
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We stand with progress and democracy in Venezuela – Tony Burke TO INTRODUCE myself, I’m Tony Burke, chair of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, who called today’s event and I am also speaking on behalf of Unite the Union and Workers Uniting, the Global Union. Workers Uniting is the global union — representing more than two …
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Perilous times for Venezuela By Fiona Edwards, VSC EC The Venezuelan people are facing a grave and dangerous situation, as the US dramatically escalates its campaign to oust Venezuela’s democratically elected government. Donald Trump’s decision on Wednesday January 23 to recognise the unelected right-wing opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s “interim president” is confirmation that …
