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Failed Coup: Is the U.S. Ready to Abandon Guaidó and Reintegrate Venezuela into the Global Community?

26Nov

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USA, Venezuela

Failed Coup: Is the U.S. Ready to Abandon Guaidó and Reintegrate Venezuela into the Global Community?

by Ted Snider In February 2019, the election in Venezuela did not go the way the U.S. had scripted it. So, the U.S. stuck with the script and ignored the election. Though Hugo Chávez’ successor, Nicolás Maduro, easily won re-election to a second term, the U.S. ignored the result and recognized their choice as the legitimate leader of Venezuela. The script had been long in the works, and the performance of it was closely coordinated with Washington: Juan Guaidó was the legitimate leader of Venezuela. Though, while campaigning, Biden called the Trump administration’s policy on Venezuela "an abject failure,” his administration has continued to recognize and support Guaidó as “the Interim President of Venezuela.” U.S. attempts to isolate and sanc...

Venezuela and Iran sign 20-year cooperation plan, Maduro pledges joint ‘anti-imperialist struggle’

6Oct

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Venezuela and Iran sign 20-year cooperation plan, Maduro pledges joint ‘anti-imperialist struggle’

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro visited Iran and signed a historic 20-year cooperation agreement involving energy, technology, and trade. He pledged solidarity against Western aggression in a joint “anti-imperialist struggle for a better world.” ByBenjamin Norton Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on June 11, 2022 Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro took a historic trip to Iran and announced a 20-year cooperation agreement, pledging to more closely integrate the countries’ economies and work together in a joint “anti-imperialist struggle for a better world, of international respect and peace, without hegemonies.” Maduro signed the pact with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran on June 11. It was described by the Vene...

Venezuelan’s view on Gustavo Petro victory in Colombia, US sanctions, Iran pact

5Oct

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Colombia, Iran, USA, Venezuela

Venezuelan’s view on Gustavo Petro victory in Colombia, US sanctions, Iran pact

A leftist Venezuelan journalist discusses the victory of left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro in Colombia’s presidential election, the easing of a few US sanctions, and Venezuela’s 20-year cooperation agreement with Iran. ByBenjamin Norton Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton speaks with Venezuelan journalist Jesús Rodríguez Espinoza, editor of independent news outlet the Orinoco Tribune, about the victory of left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro in Colombia’s presidential election, the easing of a few US sanctions, and Venezuela’s 20-year cooperation agreement with Iran. You can read the Orinoco Tribune at orinocotribune.com Video https://www.youtube.com/embed/wpouWfsvLYI?feature=oembed Podcast https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi...

How the imperialist system works, and how Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution resists it

3Oct

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Bolivia, Venezuela

How the imperialist system works, and how Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution resists it

A Venezuelan sociologist explains how the imperialist system is built on a murderous, savage capitalism, and how Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has resisted it, based on Hugo Chávez’s concept of 21st-century socialism. By: María Páez Victor This article by Venezuelan sociologist María Páez Victor is based on her presentation at the webinar “Imperialism and the Western Left” organized by the Geopolitical Economy Research Group and International Manifesto Group on April 24, 2022. There are many characteristics of imperialism, but essentially it involves the desire and the ability of one nation to overpower, dominate, and or persuade other nations to act in the best interests of the empire’s own aims. Imperialism is not a new phenomenon, but today i...

US Oil Companies Seek To Restart Crude Extraction In Venezuela

24Apr

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USA, Venezuela

US Oil Companies Seek To Restart Crude Extraction In Venezuela

The Truth About Recent Violence in Bosawas by Stephen Sefton, Tortilla con Sal Hashtag ‘Untie_Our_Hands’: How Many More Palestinians Mus... The new pump seeks to fill a vacuum left by the U.S. ban on Russian energy imports after the Ukrainian-based armed conflict, which prompted oil prices to exceed US$100 per barrel. U.S. oil companies Schlumberger, Halliburton, Baker Hughes, and Weatherford International, whose operations in Venezuela were frozen by economic sanctions, appealed to the U.S. Treasury Department to authorize them to re-start oil drilling in this South American country. RELATED:Venezuela Thwarts US Criminal Plans Against Its Economy: Maduro The new pump seeks to fill a vacuum left by the ban on Russian energy imports after the Ukrainian confl...

Statement of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab illegally hijacked by US imperialism

19Mar

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USA, Venezuela

Statement of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab illegally hijacked by US imperialism

My name is Alex Nain Saab Moran with Venezuelan diplomatic passport number 045778720. I am a special envoy with diplomatic immunity to the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran since April 2018 and Venezuelan Ambassador Plenipotentiary Alternate to the African Union. I was hijacked by Cape Verde on June 12, 2020, when my flight stopped to refuel on a special humanitarian mission to continue to the Islamic Republic of Iran by order of my President Nicolas Maduro Moros. I was kidnapped without an arrest warrant as required by law in Cape Verde and without an Interpol warrant, in a country that has no extradition treaty with the US, and they disregarded my diplomatic immunity which was even claimed by Venezuela immediately. I was tortured physically and psychol...

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase

1Mar

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Cuba, Nicaragua, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase

BY RAMZY BAROUD As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Washington’s response, on January 26, to Russia’s demands of withdrawing NATO forces from Eastern Europe and ending talks about a possible Kyiv membership in the US-led alliance, was noncommittal. For its part, the US spoke of ‘a diplomatic path’, which will address Russian demands through ‘confidence-building measures’. For Russia, such elusive language is clearly a non-starter. On that same day, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced, in front of the Duma, Russia’s parliament, that his countr...

The Impact of Chato Peredo, “Che’s Last Soldier,” on the MAS Party in Bolivia

24Feb

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Venezuela

The Impact of Chato Peredo, “Che’s Last Soldier,” on the MAS Party in Bolivia

BY DIEGO VON VACANO - JULIA PEREDO MIRANDA Chato Peredo with Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez and Néstor Kirchner. Photo by Marco Recalde. The current form of the MAS in Bolivia owes much to Osvaldo “Chato” Peredo. The Movimiento al Socialismo is not just a party, but a social movement and political instrument. Its current version, under the leadership of Luis Arce, is in many ways different from that of the first period led by Evo Morales. Much of the self-critique of the party that led up to the October 2020 election was inspired by Chato Peredo. Known as “Che’s Last Soldier,” Peredo died last year in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. His life was marked by the popular struggles that shook Bolivia throughout decades. He was born on February 4th, 1941 in Beni, in the eastern lowlands o...

9Feb

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Cuba, Russia, USA, Venezuela

Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (L) with Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo: Kremlin, via Wikimedia Commons) By Ramzy Baroud As soon as Moscow received an American response to its security demands in Ukraine, it answered indirectly by announcing greater military integration between it and three South American countries, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba. Washington’s response, on January 26, to Russia’s demands of withdrawing NATO forces from Eastern Europe and ending talks about a possible Kyiv membership in the US-led alliance, was noncommittal. For its part, the US spoke of ‘a diplomatic path’, which will address Russian demands through ‘confidence-building measures’. For Russia, such elusive language is clearly a non-starter. On that s...

Radical Democracy Is Resurgent in Latin America. How Will the US Respond?

5Jan

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Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela

Radical Democracy Is Resurgent in Latin America. How Will the US Respond?

Chile's president-elect Gabriel Boric makes a public speech in Santiago, Chile, on December 19, 2021. BY: Camilo Pérez-Bustillo, Truthout Chile has become the global capital of resurgent opposition to neoliberalism and resistance to fascism, electing the world’s youngest president, Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old former student protest leader. Boric, a member of Chile’s congress since 2014 and law school graduate, will lead the country’s first left unity government since the bloody United States-backed military coup which overthrew democratically elected leader Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973 (the “other September 11”). The left’s decisive victory in Chile, with about 55 percent of the vote, came amid a large turnout of women and youth. This included a 1-millio...