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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
At his first court appearance in New York along with his wife Cilia Flores, Nicolás Maduro told the judge, “I am innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the constitutional president of my country.”...
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...
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...
Since September 2, 2025, the United States has bombed thirteen boats, two within twenty-four hours, killing a total of sixty-one people in international waters, under the unproven charge that the boats were carrying drugs headed for the U.S.
What is amazing in this unprecedented affair is that the expected public...
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...
