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By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris, for Popular Resistance. The New York Times, the so-called US “newspaper of record,” carried an opinion piece by one of its columnists promoting “military intervention” to promote “democracy” by overturning the democratically elected government of Venezuela. The central tenet of the NYT piece is that the moral basis for deposing the current …

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Fiona Sim, Black Liberation Alliance, for The Morning Star IT’S BEEN a whirlwind of a week in Caracas, Venezuela, and a gut-punch to empire and imperialism. As part of a British delegation to Venezuela, I was privileged to witness first hand the strength and tenacity of the Bolivarian revolution. Every day has been another nail …

Seeing Venezuela in-person shows why US/British sanctions are a crimeRead More »

The role of the US and its allies The US and its allies were calling for Nicolás Maduro to recognise the election result right up until the polls closed, but only claimed irregularities in the election once it was clear that their candidate Edmundo González had lost. These claims made headline news. This refusal of …

Briefing: What the mainstream media misreports or ignores about the 2024 Venezuelan presidential electionRead More »

By Tim Young Early signs of what the incoming Trump administration in the US has in store for Venezuela were revealed in mid-November with the approval by the House of Representatives of a new Bill tightening the existing blockade against Venezuela. The Bill, which still requires Senate approval, is entitled Banning Operations and Leases with …

With Trump & Rubio on the way, US blockade tightens its grip on VenezuelaRead More »

By Tim Young, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign for The Morning Star Early signs of what the incoming Trump administration in the US has in store for Venezuela were revealed in mid-November with the approval by the House of Representatives of a new Bill tightening the existing blockade against Venezuela. The Bill, which still requires Senate approval, …

What does The US’ new ‘Bolivar Act’ mean for Venezuela?Read More »

Tim Young, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign for The Morning Star The US election result raises the spectre of Trump renewing the assault on Venezuela that his loss to Biden interrupted in 2020. In office between 2016 and 2020, Trump’s approach to Latin America showed an implacable hostility towards Venezuela, as well as other governments in the …

Trump’s return threatens renewed assault on VenezuelaRead More »

By Francisco Domínguez  for Orinoco Tribune “No Venezuelan party that alleges to have 40 percent more votes than President Maduro (as the opposition claims) would hesitate to present the evidence to the National Electoral Council (CNE)…Whoever cries election fraud, must irrefutably prove it, the onus is on them not on the CNE to prove there …

Venezuela: It Was a US-Led Coup All AlongRead More »

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. I have been in Caracas, Venezuela, for the past two weeks, before and after the presidential election on 28 July. In the run-up to the election, two things became clear to me. First, the Chavistas (supporters of Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian project that …

Venezuela elections eyewitness report: Vijay PrashadRead More »