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Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Statement on Assembly Elections

VSC congratulates Venezuela on the successful completion of elections for a new National Assembly. Venezuelans voted on Sunday to choose 277 legislators from more than 14,400 candidates registered by 107 national and regional political organizations. Over 300 international observers were present and confirmed the transparency of the process. Despite threats of violence from extreme right …

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URGENT: Statement from Dr Francisco Dominguez, National Secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign.

We have just received information from Venezuela, that a heavily armed mercenary invasion coming from Colombia in fast boats tried to land in the coast of La Guaira state, with clear intentions to carry out terrorist attacks probably including an assault on the presidential palace and the assassination of Chavista national political leaders, including ministers. …

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Interview with Ken Livingstone on US sanctions against Venezuela

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in effect putting political ideology above the welfare of the Venezuelan people, even in the face of real attempts at reconciliation between the nation’s political factions, by refusing emergency loans to the Latin American country, Ken Livingstone, former mayor of London and honorary president of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, …

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US Launches Fresh Sanctions Against Venezuelan State Airline

By Paul Dobson for Venezuelanalysis The US government has sanctioned Venezuela’s state-owned airline CONVIASA, claiming it is being used to “shuttle corrupt officials.” While already subject to previous US unilateral coercive measures, the latest sanctions add the airline and 40 of its planes to the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Specially Designated Nationals …

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Statement: Stand up to Trump & Pence’s threats of ‘regime change’ in Venezuela

We, the undersigned, condemn the open support of the US administration for ‘regime change’ in Venezuela, which is illegal under international law. Alongside harsh sanctions which have hit the people of Venezuela hard, comments from Trump himself, VP Pence, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo amongst others have included threats of military action, threatened to …

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The VSC condemns the British government’s invitation to Juan Guaidó – statement.

The VSC condemns the British government’s invitation to Juan Guaidó, an undemocratic, right-wing politician, who self appointed and declared himself the unelected ‘President’ of Venezuela, and is not recognised by most of the international community and who has been rejected by the people of Venezuela. Welcoming him as a head of state violates all principles …

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Venezuela Urges the US to Abide by International Law

Venezuela’s Foreign minister Jorge Arreaza urged Tuesday United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to respect international law as well as the sovereignty of the South American country with regards to the National Assembly’s newly-elected leadership. “Mr. Pompeo, consider for once that your strategy failed. You showed no skills as puppeteers and now you lost your main puppet. …

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Analyisis: US Approves Bill That May Legislate Hybrid Warfare on Venezuela

On December 16, both houses in the US approved the appropriation bill to be signed by President Trump. Aside from the mind-boggling amount of $1.4 trillion that was approved in total our interest was in looking at the details concerning Venezuela. A press release issued by the organization Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is …

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The Bolivian coup: what the mainstream media don’t tell you

by Francisco Dominguez, VSC Secretary THE Comite Ciudadano (Citizens Committee), a right-wing coalition led by Bolivia’s ex-vice-president, Carlos Mesa, and Luis Fernando Camacho, a multimillionaire entrepreneur, leading the extreme right-wing pressure group Comite Civico (Civic Committee) of Santa Cruz, jointly launched a brutal wave of violence in many areas of the country aimed explicitly at …

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