Right-wing lobbies and ideological zealotry continue to prevent initiation of rational policy toward Venezuela
On June 2, Saudi-led OPEC and its allies announced it will accelerate oil production in July and August, as the cartel’s key player, Saudi Arabia, agreed to U.S. pleadings that it take action to cool crude...
At the final Cabinet meeting of 2025, Donald Trump said that the strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean would continue, and that “We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too”—signaling that a ground invasion of Venezuela and possibly other countries may be imminent...
New film detailed amateurish plot led by a gang of mercenaries who couldn’t shoot straight
As the Trump regime deploys the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group—including a nuclear-powered attack submarine, P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft, three U.S. Navy destroyers equipped with some of the most advanced air defense, ballistic missile defense, and...
Adelmo Becerra is a Venezuelan trade union activist with the National Institute for Training and Socialist Education (INCES).
In mid-June, Adelmo told Truthout that changes to a hydrocarbons law, instituted after the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro in January, has led Venezuela to “regress more than 100 years, back to...
Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, as he boasted he should for supposedly being the “peace President”—a claim we’ve debunked numerous times on this show...
The financial elite the CIA serves is now salivating over the prospects of U.S. corporations retaking control of Venezuela’s oil industry
The Trump administration welcomed the New Year by ordering a brazen Special Forces raid into Venezuela that resulted in the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was...
The United States government is inserting itself into a border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana on behalf of ExxonMobil. The oil-rich Essequibo region has the world’s biggest reserves per capita of crude oil and in May of this year, a “significant discovery” by ExxonMobil was announced in the area’s 6.6-million acre Staborek Block oil field...
They ask if our own nation was not using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without...
Adopted as part of regime-change operation, sanctions have killed at least 40,000 Venezuelans.
Economic coercive measures, commonly known as economic sanctions, are a means of coercive pressure through disruption of trade relations and economic isolation. The use of sanctions under international law is governed chiefly by Chapter VII of the...
While sitting in my apartment in Caracas, Venezuela, and reading the online edition of Time magazine (5/19/16), I noticed a report asserting that there was not even something as basic as aspirin to be found anywhere in Venezuela: “Basic medicines like aspirin are nowhere to be found.”
I walked out of the...
