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 …
Analyisis: US Approves Bill That May Legislate Hybrid Warfare on VenezuelaRead More »
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 …
The Bolivian coup: what the mainstream media don’t tell youRead More »
By Paul Dobson for Venezuelanalysis Mérida, November 18, 2019 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Chavista forces took to the streets of Caracas on Saturday to protest against the on-going coup d’état in Bolivia. The sizeable march followed a number of similar activities held across the country last week, including a rally held by a number of grassroots groups …
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by Tim Young 2019 has been a particularly testing year for Venezuela as President Nicolas Maduro’s government has fought off two coup attempts and is now subject to an extensive US-imposed economic blockade of the type employed against Cuba since the early 1960s. In pursuit of its strategy of “regime change” against the elected Venezuelan …
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. …
By yet another Executive Order (EO) on 5thAugust 2019, President Donald Trump has imposed a total blockade of Venezuela. This is ostensibly against its government but in reality against its people. The Executive Order de facto confiscates all assets that belong to the Venezuelan state within the territory under US jurisdiction: saying they are “blocked …
No to Trump’s criminal imposition of a total blockade against the Venezuelan peopleRead More »
By Tony Burke, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Chair and Unite AGS Following the abject failure of the recent U.S. backed coup, the self-appointed Venezuelan ‘interim president’, Juan Guaidó had nowhere to go. The coup was the latest failed attempt backed by the US Trump administration to force ‘regime change’ in Venezuela and drive out the elected …
A meeting between Guaido’s team and the US Southern Command is being organised. By Paul Dobson for Venezuelanalysis Self-declared “Interim President” Juan Guaido has ordered the setting up of a meeting with the US Armed Forces to discuss “cooperation” in his efforts to oust President Nicolas Maduro. During a gathering of supporters in the upper …
The mainstream media has been obsessed with Venezuela for weeks, and not in a good way. Its infatuation with the “humanitarian crisis” and opposition has left Venezuelans who defend their country’s sovereignty and elected government being ignored. This video report from Redfish & Alborada films looks into what is really happening on the ground in …
By Mark Weisbrot In the early 1970s, a handful of Sandinistas were in the mountains of Nicaragua fighting to overthrow the 40-year U.S.-backed, brutal dictatorship of the Somoza family. When a powerful volcanic eruption struck Nicaragua in 1971, Sandinista Omar Cabezas later recounted, they told the peasants whom they encountered that God was punishing them …
The Reality Behind Trump’s Coalition for Regime Change in VenezuelaRead More »
