Caracas: Saturday, January 3rd: The situation in Venezuela is certainly not easy; we are under attack. And this is a higher stage of that war. The Venezuelan government was warned and prepared for this—that is, there was an awareness that this would happen at some point. What was not...
The United States is at it AGAIN!! The current social unrest in Venezuela aided and abetted by the United States is not the first time, and undoubtedly not the last time, it will interfere in the domestic affairs of other countries. On December 22, 2016, Ari Shapiro, the NPR Host...
On October 16, 2025, Donald Trump’s second term ignited a reckless campaign against Venezuela, greenlighting covert CIA operations, deploying 4,000 Marines and F-35 jets to the Caribbean, and launching strikes on Venezuelan vessels that have killed more than 27 people—all framed as a fight against drugs and migration. This is no noble mission:...
On October 13th, Venezuela’s representative to the UN Samuel Moncada denounced plotting by the United States and Colombia against Venezuela’s democratically elected government at the UN Security Council. In an eight-page letter to Security Council President Martin Kimani, Moncada detailed “bellicose” statements by Colombian President Iván Duque and by U.S. Navy Admiral...
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba condemns the escalation of pressures and actions of the U.S. government in preparation for a military adventure under the guise of a “humanitarian intervention” in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and calls on the international community to mobilize in order to...
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...
Seven years ago, then U.S. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard wrote on Twitter: "The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future.  We don’t want other countries to choose our leaders—so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.” Now, as Director of National Intelligence in...
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...
After the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the legitimate president of Venezuela, Trump held a press conference in which he was asked about María Corina Machado, the most visible face abroad of the Venezuelan opposition. He responded: “I think it would be very tough for her to be the...
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...