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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The current border impasse between Guyana and Venezuela is yet another example of United States imperialism’s design to expand and usurp countries’ natural resources around the world and reinforce its geopolitical agenda.
The hegemonic stranglehold of the United States and its multinationals are challenged by China and Russia mainly, with...
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...
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...
Venezuela’s elections took place on July 28th. Nicolás Maudro defeated the right-wing candidate Edmundo González Urrutia by over a million votes. The imperialist machine immediately jumped into action to denounce the elections, condemning Maduro as a dictator and calling the results undemocratic...
New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela
The U.S. imperialists “want Alex Saab like they want Julian Assange to suffer,” charges human rights and international law expert Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, who the...
