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23Mar

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Interview with Venezuelan engineering

NOVANEWS Interview with Venezuelan engineering professor on blackout, attack on Guri power plant By: Gloria La Riva In Caracas, Gloria La Riva of Liberation News interviews Rafael Argotti, a university professor and member of the Bolivarian Movement of Engineers and Technologists. Despite the massive blackout, masses of Venezuelans continue to mobilize — with big rallies and with grassroots organization to distribute water and food.

14Mar

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USA, Venezuela

“Lights Out!” Did Trump and His Neocons Recycle Bush-Era Plan to Knock Out Venezuela’s Power Grid?

NOVANEWS Relatives of a patient walk in the darkened hall of a clinic with a candle lighting the way, during a power outage in Caracas, Venezuela, March 7, 2019. A power outage left much of Venezuela in the dark in what appeared to be one of the largest blackouts yet. Ariana Cubillos | AP Even as the Venezuelan government blamed the recent power outage on U.S.-led “sabotage,” the U.S. has long had a plan on the books for targeting the civilian power grid of adversarial nations. by Whitney Webb CARACAS, VENEZUELA — For nearly four days, much of Venezuela has been without power, bringing the country’s embattled economy to a near standstill. Though power is now returning, the outage saw U.S. officials and politicians blame the Venezuelan government for the crisis whil...

7Mar

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Venezuelan people mobilize against U.S. aggression 'Video'

NOVANEWS Zionist propaganda By Liberation Staff Contrary to U.S. propaganda, the Venezuelan government is directly delivering food to millions of families. Community-based militias are mobilizing to defend their homeland in preparation for a possible military intervention by the Trump administration and its right-wing allies. Gloria La Riva interviews those mobilizing at the base of Venezuelan society. This is the reporting you never see in the U.S. corporate media. There are important actions taking place this Saturday, Feb 23 to say No War on Venezuela. Then all will unite for a National March on Washington on March 16 to say #HandsOffVenezuela. Visit http://www.ANSWERcoalition.org for march details. ----------------------------------------------- Yale students sit in for fo...

7Mar

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Help fund Liberation News fact-finding trip to Venezuela, led by Gloria La Riva

NOVANEWS By Party for Socialism and Liberation The corporate mass media is acting as nothing less than the propaganda arm of the U.S. state in its super-aggressive campaign to overthrow the government of Venezuela. The people of the United States are being relentlessly fed a litany of lies and distortions, meant to prepare the population here for a new war. This is the same kind of demonization that we have seen in the buildup to the wars against Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia in recent years, and Central America, Vietnam, Korea in early times. The urgent task of the moment is to counter this information war. We must challenge the dominant narrative from the White House, State Department and Pentagon before a new war is launched against our brothers and sisters in Venezuela. W...

4Mar

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Russia, Venezuela

Venezuela moves PDVSA HQ to Moscow

NOVANEWS By Gloria La Riva Credit: The Photographer [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] To protect Venezuela’s oil from the “armed robbery being carried out against Venezuela’s wealth,” Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez announced that the European offices of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., the state-owned oil and natural gas company, will be moved from Lisbon to Moscow. In a joint press conference in Moscow on March 1, together with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, both spoke of the countries’ growing economic and trade relations, including agreements between the oil giant PDVSA of Venezuela and Russia’s Gazprom and Rosneft. Russia will assist Venezuela in the production of medicines inside the country, as well as supply medicines that are purchased. ...

23Feb

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Venezuela: A Unique Experience in Protagonist Democracy?

NOVANEWS By Arnold August Global Research The issue for us all is: No to military intervention in Venezuela and full support for the right of Venezuela to defend itself. “Maduro declared in his February 4 Caracas speech: ‘Not one Yaqui soldier will enter Venezuela.’” Is Trump contributing to a unique experience in protagonist democracy in Venezuela? If so, his administration and the Democratic Party supporting the U.S. elite’s Venezuela policy are in for a big surprise. On February 25, 2014 – five years ago! – BAR published my article titled “Obama’s Arrogant Interference in Venezuela and Resistance by a Participatory Democracy.” Over the five years of tampering, obstruction and suffocating sanctions, the Obama and Trump administrations have not been able to conquer Venezuela. ...

30Jan

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An Invasion of Venezuela Isn’t A “Far-Fetched Scenario”

NOVANEWS By Andrew Korybko Global Research While Guaido and his self-declared “government”(-in-waiting) are downplaying the prospects of a military invasion to topple Maduro, the reality is that such a scenario really isn’t all that far-fetched and could even succeed in the event that only a limited one was commenced in the ultra-strategic state of Zulia. The Last Chance For Peace Both supporters and detractors of the Venezuelan government seem to be of the mind that the country’s crisis is rapidly approaching a climax, with the specter of a military invasion looming large on the horizon. Each camp, and especially Guadio’s self-declared “government”(-in-waiting), has downplayed this possibility, but the reality is that such a scenario really isn’t all that far-fetched and could ev...

27Jan

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United Kingdom, Venezuela

Venezuela: Bid to Pull $1.2 Billion of Gold From U.K.

NOVANEWS Nicolas Maduro speaks during a televised press conference in Caracas on Jan. 25. Photographer: Carlos Becerra/Bloomberg Nicolas Maduro’s bid to pull $1.2 billion worth of gold out of the Bank of England, according to people familiar with the matter. The Bank of England’s decision to deny Maduro officials’ withdrawal request comes after top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton, lobbied their U.K. counterparts to help cut off the regime from its overseas assets, according to one of the people, who asked not to be identified. The U.K. followed the U.S. and other countries on Wednesday in recognizing C.I.A puppet Juan Guaido, the National Assembly leader, as the legitimate president of Venezuela. The Europea...

27Jan

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Cutting through the lies about Venezuela

NOVANEWS By Liberation Staff Jan 24 demonstration in New York City marching from the Venezuelan Consulate to Trump towers. Among the participants in the PSL-initiated action were representatives from the Dec. 12th movement, Bayan, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, and the Dominican group Marcha Verde. Liberation photo: Vincent Tsai. The following is based upon a talk given by in New York City on Jan. 24 at a demonstration initiated by that group supporting the Venezuelan government from a U.S. backed coup. Over the past few days, a corrupt, illegitimate regime lacking the support of vast swaths of the population it claims to represent, backed another round of imperialist hostilities against the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela. In an unconstitutional event spearheaded by the Venez...

24Jan

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Venezuelan army disavows self-proclaimed leader, will defend national sovereignty

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr The Venezuelan military will not accept a president imposed by “dark interests,” Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino said after Washington and a number of its allies recognized a lawmaker as the new leader in Caracas. The army will continue to defend the constitution and national sovereignty, Padrino said on Wednesday afternoon, hours after opposition lawmaker C.I.A puppet Juan Guaido was proclaimed interim president by the National Assembly, in a direct challenge to President Nicolas Maduro. The US quickly recognized Guaido as Venezuela’s legitimate leader, with the Organization of American States (OAS) following Washington’s lead. Canada and France have also recognized puppet Guaido, while Mexico has declined to do so “for now.” Bolivia declared “soli...