Venezuela

Abrego Garcia’s Wrongful Deportation Case More About Individual Rights Than Trump’s Foreign Policy

May 8, 2025 Chimene Keitner, Scheer Post. Educate! El Salvador, Fascism, Foreign Policy, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Mass Deportation, Supreme Court, Trump Administration, Venezuela

Trump administration officials have repeatedly claimed that judges who order the administration to take action to bring deported Venezuelans back from the El Salvador prison where the U.S. sent them are meddling in the conduct of foreign policy. “The foreign policy of the United States is conducted by President Donald J. Trump − not by a court − and no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on April 14. His comments refer to cases including that of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Salvadoran man who was deported to El Salvador on March 15, 2025, without any due process.

Human Rights Watch Outflanks Trump

May 5, 2025 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Human Rights Watch, Liberal class, Trump Administration, US Sanctions, Venezuela

It’s been over 100 days since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. Most NGOs to the right of the Heritage Foundation are alarmed about his confrontational international posture and related erosion of the rule of law. Human Rights Watch (HRW), a supposedly liberal organization, is also concerned. But their problem is that the president hasn’t gone far enough – at least in the case of Venezuela. HRW’s latest report on Venezuela calls for intensified illegal measures that cause misery and death, outflanking Trump from the right. At issue for HRW is last July’s Venezuelan presidential election that saw Nicolás Maduro declared the winner.

They Are Making Venezuela’s Economy Scream

May 2, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! economic war, US Imperialism, US Sanctions, Venezuela

Before 2017, Venezuela relied on its oil revenue for 95% of its export earnings. Moreover, oil revenue has been critical for financing the government’s progressive social agenda. This loss has caused inflation in Venezuela to soar: according to official Central Bank of Venezuela numbers from 2019, the highest inter-annual inflation rate was 344,510%, meaning prices increased by a factor of 3,400 in a single year. This is an unimaginable disaster for any country and an enormous strain on the population. While Venezuela has been under attack by the US government and its allies since Hugo Chávez’s first election in 1998, Trump’s 2017 Executive Order 13808 set off a new wave of financial sanctions that denied Venezuela access to international credit markets, severely undermining its ability to sell oil abroad.

US Abduction Of 2-Year-Old Venezuelan Girl Constitutes Human Trafficking

April 30, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Human Trafficking, Kidnapping, Nayib Bukele, Tren de Aragua, US Imperialism, Venezuela

In a statement issued this Monday, April 28, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil condemned the separation of a 2-year-old Venezuelan child from her mother as an act of “extreme violence,” calling it “absolutely unacceptable and unthinkable in the 21st century.” The statement emphasized that this incident reflects a broader pattern of migrant rights violations, directly contravening international frameworks such as the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the United Nations Charter. “This represents yet another egregious case of family separation, forcibly removing a child from their emotional and biological bonds,” it declared.

Venezuela’s Journey Toward Real Democracy

April 28, 2025 Andreína Chávez Alava, Venezualanalysis. Create! Democracy, History, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The term “democracy” triggers different reactions when it comes to Venezuela. For local far-right forces, democracy has been nonexistent since 1998 and can only be restored by dismantling everything that evokes popular power, self-determination and social justice. In the hawkish eyes of the United States, “democracy” is an excuse to punish sovereign nations with economic sanctions and blockades until regime change is achieved. Whether elections are fair and free is irrelevant for US “democratic” standards, as are human rights abuses, as long as a country complies with US interests.

US Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Further Deportations Of Venezuelans

April 21, 2025 Red Radio VE, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Alien Enemies Act, CECOT, El Salvador, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), US Supreme Court, Venezuela, Venezuelan migrants

The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked the deportation of Venezuelans who are detained in North Texas under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a controversial 18th-century military law. In a brief order issued on Saturday, April 19, the US Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration not to expel migrants held at the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order of this court.” The ruling comes just hours after a federal appeals court similarly blocked the US government from moving forward with eliminating temporary legal protection, better known as TPS, for some 350,000 Venezuelan migrants, who would be at risk of imminent deportation.

Latin America Three Months Into Trump

April 20, 2025 John Perry and Roger D. Harris, LA Progressive. Educate! Donald Trump, Latin America, US Sanctions, Venezuela

Nobody is complaining anymore about Latin America and the Caribbean being neglected by the hegemon to the north. The Trump administration is contending with it on multiple fronts: prioritizing “massive deportations,” halting the “flood of drugs,” combatting “threats to US security,” and stopping other countries from “ripping us off” in trade. The over 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine is alive and on steroids. But has Washington taken a sharp right turn, qualitatively departing from past practices, or simply intensified an already manifest imperial trajectory? And, from a south-of-the-border perspective, to what extent are the perceived problems “made in the USA”?

Trump Targets Migrants Amid Human Trafficking Allegations

April 16, 2025 Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Deportations, El Salvador, Human Rights, Prisons, Tren de Aragua, Trump Administration, Venezuela

Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign that targets Latino migrants – particularly Venezuelans – as scapegoats in a broader geopolitical agenda. Bolstered through a controversial alliance with the Salvadoran president, Trump has overseen mass deportations, detentions in Guantánamo Bay and El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, and invoked 18th-century war powers to justify these actions. Trump’s brutal attacks on the working class have been supplemented by the systematic demonization of immigrants – many of whom are themselves working class. During his electoral campaign, Trump not only promised large-scale deportations but, pandering to a far-right base, vilified migrants to unprecedented degrees.

Communal Feminism: A Conversation With Moira Blanco Cardona

April 15, 2025 Cira Pascual Marquina, Orinoco Tribune. Create! communal feminism, Communal Union, Feminism, Unions, Venezuela

Broadly speaking, the project dates back to 2018, when we began promoting the idea of anti-patriarchal communes—calling for the gradual dismantling of patriarchy within communities and, by extension, across society. Then, in 2019, the proposal for a national organization emerged: the Communard Union. The Union was conceived as a political and social instrument to unite and integrate the communal movement into a single organization with a socialist horizon. The Communard Union was born with the aim of regrouping and promoting the communal movement at a time when it had been rendered practically invisible.

Mexico’s Sheinbaum Calls On CELAC To End Blockade Of Cuba And Venezuela

April 11, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! CELAC, Claudia Sheinbaum, Colombia, Cuba, Economic Blockade, Gustavo Petro, Latin America, Mexico, Venezuela, Xiomara Castro

At the 9th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum condemned economic blockades against any country and singled out those imposed on Cuba and Venezuela by the United States. “We reject, as Mexico has historically done, trade sanctions and blockades…” said Sheinbaum. “No to the blockade of Cuba. No to the blockade of Venezuela,” the Mexican president stated during her speech at the summit, held in Honduras, on Wednesday, April 9.

Maduro Declares Economic Emergency Against US Tariff War

April 9, 2025 Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Colonialism, Maximum Pressure, Multipolar World, Nicolas Maduro, US Hegemony, US Sanctions, Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro signed an economic emergency decree on Tuesday, April 8, during a televised meeting with telecommunications and economic leaders. He framed the move as a response to what he called a US-led “tariff war” destabilizing global trade systems, alongside the revival of the “maximum pressure” strategy aimed at suffocating Venezuela’s economy. The decree, pending approval by the National Assembly, seeks to bolster Venezuela’s economy amid escalating international tensions and US aggression. President Maduro accused the US of dealing a “definitive and total blow” to international trade institutions, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), in an effort to impose “single hegemonic dominance” over global economic rules.

Meet The DC Think Tanks Impoverishing Masses Of Latin Americans

April 8, 2025 John Perry, The Grayzone. Educate! Cuba embargo, Ivan Duque, Leopoldo Lopez, Maria Corina Machado, Nicaragua, Think Tanks, US Sanctions, Venezuela

Sanctions are a form of hybrid warfare that harms or even kills the target populations at little cost to the country imposing them. In Latin America alone, US sanctions (correctly known as “unilateral coercive measures”) have killed at least 100,000 Venezuelans. The US blockade of Cuba has been so destructive that one in ten Cubans have left the country. Sanctions have similarly deprived Nicaraguans of development aid worth an estimated $3 billion since 2018, hitting projects such as new water supplies for rural areas. Who formulates these devastating sanctions, covers up their real effects, works with politicians to put them into operation and promotes them in corporate media?

Project In Venezuela Wants To Build Food Sovereignty

April 4, 2025 Lorenzo Santiago, Orinoco Tribune. Create! Brazil, Food Sovereignty, Landless Workers, Venezuela

A project to guarantee Venezuela’s food sovereignty: This is how the Patria Grande del Sur program is being treated by the Venezuelan government and the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST, in Portuguese). The initiative was launched two weeks ago and will use 180,000 hectares for food production based on agroecology. Rosana Fernandes has been coordinating the MST brigade in Venezuela for two months. The movement has been active in the country for 20 years and is now the central organization leading the project in southern Venezuela. She says it intends to occupy the territory of Vergareña and expand the food production carried out by small families in the region.

El Tren De Aragua: The Defunct Venezuelan Band

March 27, 2025 Resumen English. Educate! Donald Trump, Media, Tren de Aragua, Trump Administration, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Venezuelan migrants

Until the designation as a “transnational criminal organization” by the US in 2024, the course of the now-disbanded group was narrated by a network of US think tanks, media and funds that constructed a discourse against the Bolivarian Revolution. This construction currently serves to justify sanctions, carry out mass deportations and feed the false idea of a failed state in Venezuela. In July 2024, when the US Treasury Department included Tren de Aragua on its list of transnational criminal organizations, it equated it with cartels such as Sinaloa or Jalisco Nueva Generación, which have a presence in more than 100 countries and have more than 45,000 members, associates and facilitators.

Law Firm Demands Release Of 238 Venezuelans Detained In El Salvador

March 26, 2025 Telesur, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Detention, El Salvador, habeas corpus, Human Rights, Migrants, Venezuela

The prominent Grupo Ortega law firm filed a habeas corpus petition on Tuesday before El Salvador’s Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ). The legal action seeks the immediate release of 238 Venezuelan migrants currently detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). In an official statement, the firm argued that these detentions may violate fundamental rights, including personal liberty, due process, and protection against cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. They emphasized that these rights are protected under both El Salvador’s Constitution and international treaties ratified by the country.

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