Venezuela Archives - Page 4 of 8

7Jun

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USA, Venezuela

US Media Urge Coup d’Etat in Venezuela

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research US and other Western media violate core principles of what journalism is supposed to be – displaying shocking contempt for truth-telling. Major media press freedom in America and other Western nations is pure fantasy. Journalist AJ Liebling once said it’s “only for those who own one.” Michael Parenti’s book titled “Inventing Reality” was the first comprehensive critique of the news media, explaining how it “manipulate(s) the public’s perception of reality,” serving wealth and powerful interests exclusively. In their book titled “Guardians of Power,” David Cromwell and David Edwards said major media today are in crisis. Free and open Western societies don’t exist. Fiction substitutes for facts. News is carefully filtered, dissent margi...

24May

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Venezuela

Maduro Won Venezuela’s Election Despite US Meddling, Now What?

NOVANEWS Supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro gather outside the National Electoral Council in Caracas, Venezuela, May 2, 2018. AP | Ricardo Mazalan. Thus far, Maduro and the Bolivarian leadership have been unable or unwilling to implement the necessary measures to deal with Venezuela’s economic crisis. By Jorge Martin Nicolas Maduro was re-elected for another term of office in the Venezuelan presidential election on Sunday 20 May. The majority of the reactionary opposition, with full support from Washington and Brussels, had called for a boycott, which led to a very low turnout in the middle-and-upper-class areas of the main cities. Their demand that the elections be canceled was echoed by right-wing governments in the region. This meant that many in the work...

20May

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Venezuela

Crucial presidential elections upcoming in Venezuela amid imperialist threats

NOVANEWS Editor’s update: In a gross violation of international law, Canada is prohibiting Venezuelans living in Canada from voting in the May 20 election. On May 16, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza condemned this move as an attempt to meddle in Venezuela’s election process. “They denounce that there is a dictatorship in Venezuela, but who is denying the right to vote? Only dictatorship countries do not allow citizens to exercise their right to vote, so I ask if Venezuela –according to some world nations – is a dictatorship, how is it that today Canada intends to curtail Venezuelans’ right to vote? “Who is preventing here the right to suffrage and to vote, the government of Venezuela or the government of Canada?” Arreaza said. (Telesur) President Nicolás Maduro of the United S...

20May

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Venezuela

Venezuela’s Highly Unusual Presidential Election

NOVANEWS This is the best opportunity since 1998 that the opposition has to defeat the Bolivarian Revolution. So why are they boycotting the election? Greg Wilpert asks By Gregory Wilpert Venezuelanalysis.com Venezuela will hold its 24th electoral event in 20 years this Sunday, 20 May. The path to this election was perhaps one of the most convoluted and difficult of Venezuela’s now nearly 20-year Bolivarian Revolution. First, there was a snap election in 2013, a mere five weeks after president Chávez died of cancer on 5 March. The opposition believed this was their best chance since 1998 to oust ‘Chavismo’ from power and so, when its candidate, Henrique Capriles Radonski, lost to Nicolas Maduro by a mere 1.5 per cent, they cried fraud and launched a wave of violent protests and...

17May

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Russia, Venezuela

Moscow Responds to Assertions About Illegitimacy of Voting in Venezuela

NOVANEWS The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday that it considers calls to disrupt voting in Venezuela’s presidential elections due May 20 to be interference in the affairs of a sovereign state. “Assertions about the illegitimacy of the election campaign continue to be circulated, calls for disruption of the voting process are made. This… represents an undisguised interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. We call to abandon this destructive practice,” the statement said. Moscow considers the upcoming presidential elections in Venezuela as “a possibility to return Venezuela’s political forces to the national dialogue to seek solutions required to advance the country along the path of stable economic development,” it said. Previous week, a poll conduc...

3Apr

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Venezuela

An Oil Price Rally Is Likely?

NOVANEWS By Nick Cunningham Global Research Oil prices seesawed at the start of the week before jumping close to multi-year highs on geopolitical concerns, with Brent hitting $70 and WTI at $65. However, geopolitical pressure is only able to influence oil prices to such a degree because the market is fundamentally getting tighter. Ongoing declines in Venezuela and concerns about heightened tension between the U.S. and Iran have significantly raised the risk premium for oil, even as some short-term factors recently pushed up prices. The weekly EIA report was a bit mixed. U.S. oil production jumped again by 26,000 bpd in the week ending on March 23, putting output at 10.433 million barrels per day (mb/d), yet another record high. Still, the report wasn’t exactly bearish. Although...

29Mar

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Venezuela

Venezuela Raises the Minimum Wage. “It’s an Offense” Says the ILO, It Goes against the Rights of Corporations

NOVANEWS Venezuela may have an economic crisis but raising the minimum wage to alleviate the burden on workers may be an offense. The International Labour Organization will conduct inquiry. By Nino Pagliccia Global Research It is not news that Venezuela is being ostracized in any conceivable form short of an actual military invasion, although threats to that effect have also been made by the US government. Other governments and institutions like the Organization of American States have joined in what appears to be a contest for who-is-who in ganging up against Venezuela. What is news is that the new threat comes from the International Labour Organization (ILO) with headquarters based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organization reported on March 21: “ILO Governing Body decides to ...

7Mar

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Foreign “Meddling” in Elections—Yankee Imperialist Style

NOVANEWS By Bill Van Auken World Socialist Web Site Amid the unrelenting campaign by the Democrats and the media—backed by powerful sections of the US military and intelligence apparatus—to whip up hysteria over alleged Russian “meddling” in the 2016 US election, scant attention has been paid to the blatant meddling of US imperialism itself in the electoral processes of the countries south of the Rio Grande. Involved in these operations are not a few tens of thousands of dollars in Facebook advertisements, alleged activities of social media bots and supposed “fake news”, but rather support for bloody repression, the systematic impoverishment of entire populations and preparations for military coups and outright US military intervention. A principal case in point is Washington’...

11Jan

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Western Journalists Threaten Venezuela

NOVANEWS By: Joe Emersberger Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (R) speaks during a meeting with ministers in Caracas, Venezuela January 5, 2017 | Photo: Reuters. Whitewashing a vile opposition leadership for decades makes military invasion a possibility "Venezuela opposition looks to military to oust Maduro. Dream on" says the headline to an article by John Otis in the Guardian. "Having failed to dislodge President Nicolás Maduro, the opposition is openly talking of a coup but mutual benefit links the military with the ruling party" reads the subheading. Otis cites opposition leaders Julio Borges, Maria Corina Machado and former Economist "journalist" Phil Gunson who is now with the International Crisis Group. Borges and Machado, and the most prominent opposi...

8Dec

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UN Expert: No Humanitarian Crisis in Venezuela

NOVANEWS By Rachael Boothroyd Rojas | Venezuelanalysis An independent United Nations expert has publicly stated that Venezuela is not suffering from a humanitarian crisis following a recent trip to the country. Alfred De Zayas, an independent expert on International Democratic and Equitable Order at the United Nations (UN), visited Venezuela in late November to assess its social and economic progress. On arriving back in Geneva Tuesday, the UN official told press that he did not think the country’s current economic problems had given way to a humanitarian crisis. “I agree with the FAO [UN Food and Agriculture Organization] and CEPAL [Economic Commission for Latin America & the Caribbean] that the so-called humanitarian crisis does not exist in Venezuela, although there are shortag...