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 …
The ‘Lima Group’ Pretense to Be an International Body Is Irresponsible and Dangerous Analyst Nino Pagliccia examines the Lima Group’s efforts to promote regime change in Venezuela. Sixty years ago Canada did not break diplomatic relations with Cuba while the OAS expelled Cuba from the organization after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Today the …
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Yet another piece of reporting in the mainstream media – this time The Guardian –has failed to acknowledge the wider political and economic context of Venezuela’s current condition – while at the same time presenting a distorted, negative picture. What follows will look at: the lack of any serious analysis of the impact of …
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has imposed sweeping new sanctions on Venezuela, this time focused on the gold sector. These latest sanctions aim to attack Venezuela’s gold production and trade and deny it hard currency to pay for the import of food and medicines. Venezuela has extensive gold reserves, estimated as the second largest in the …
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Trump has Venezuela in his sights As the sabre-rattling statments mount up, just how close is military intervention, asks VSC’s TIM YOUNG PRESIDENT Trump has again raised the possibility of regime change in Venezuela, as talk of military intervention against its democratically elected government grows in the United States. Speaking recently at the UN, he …
No to Almagro’s call for military intervention against Venezuela – No to Trump’s ‘regime change’ agenda By Francisco Dominguez, VSC Secretary On 13th September at a rally held after a press conference in Cucuta, a Colombian town on the border with Venezuela, the Secretary General of the Organisation for American States Luis Almagro said: “With …
By Tim Young, VSC EC REVEALING examples are emerging of the cumulative impact that US sanctions against Venezuela are having on the Venezuelan people in the field of health, one of the key priorities of the Bolivarian revolution. In July 2017, the US bank Citibank refused to handle Venezuela’s payment for the import of 300,000 …
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By Tim Young, VSC EC While pundits concentrate on noisy clashes between Donald Trump and Angela Merkel in Brussels, few have noticed that Colombia is joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) as a “global partner,” the first Latin American country to do so. In doing so, it joins eight other “global partner” countries in …
