Tag: Venezuela
The condemnation by local, national and international labor organizations of the illegal January 3, 2026, U.S. attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, is a welcome development.
The AFL-CIO has declared, succinctly and without elaboration, “We join the international labor community 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...
Senator Markwayne Mullin bought stock in leading defense and oil companies just five days before Trump ordered the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife
Mullin follows in the footsteps of his predecessor, James Inhofe, who bought Raytheon stock and profited from illegal wars of aggression that he championed
Senator Markwayne...
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...
Following the Trump administration’s kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, the Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed an indictment alleging that Maduro “moved loads of cocaine under the protection of Venezuelan law enforcement” and that profits from the illegal activity “flowed” to...
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...
Like most Americans I was “shocked but not surprised,” as the saying goes, by the Trump administration’s decision to snatch Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from his bed and render him to New York to face international narcotics trafficking charges. Whether Maduro has committed any crime or...
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...
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...
On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, I filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of the family of Alejandro Carranza—a Colombian fisherman who went out in his boat on the Caribbean Sea, attempting to fish for marlin and tuna, but who never came home....
