Venezuela

Venezuelan Dissidents Supporting Israel Receive Human Rights Award

October 31, 2024 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Elections, Opposition, Palestine, Venezuela, Western imperialism

The world’s peoples recoil in shock over the previously unimaginable barbarity of the US/Zionist assault on Palestine. The European Parliament is not impervious to what is transpiring. On the contrary, the body normalizes the cruelty by awarding its highest human rights award, the Sakharov Prize, to dissident Venezuelan genocide supporters. This is an example of how Western "democracies" fail to respect democracy in the Global South. "Human rights" are weaponized and used to repudiate Venezuela’s right to choose its own leaders, while rewarding those who sell out their country. The US-aligned camp has a clear double standard on when and where upholding “democratic institutions” apply, considering their stances on Venezuela compared to Israel, described below.

What Venezuelans Think About Their Presidential Election

October 29, 2024 Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Educate! Elections, US Interference, US Sanctions, Venezuela

It’s been nearly three months since the Venezuelans went to the polls on July 28, and there is still contention domestically and abroad regarding the winner of the presidential election. This is not unexpected. The US has not recognized the legitimacy of the previous two presidential elections in Venezuela and had announced way before this election that if Washington’s chosen candidate lost, it could only be because of fraud. The official Venezuelan electoral authority (CNE) declared incumbent President Nicolás Maduro the winner with 52% of the vote. The nearest contender, the US-backed Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, got 43% of the vote.

Why Brazil Opposes Venezuela’s Entry Into BRICS

October 24, 2024 Misión Verdad, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Brazil, BRICS, Kazan, Multipolarity, US Imperialism, Venezuela

On Monday, it was reported that Brazil would oppose Venezuela’s entry into the BRICS group. The 16th Summit of the BRICS organization is taking place this week in the Russian city of Kazan. President Nicolás Maduro was invited by the Russian president himself, Vladimir Putin, at the beginning of August, and is attending with a Venezuelan delegation. The Brazilian government’s advisor for international affairs, former foreign minister Celso Amorim, announced that Brazil would seek to prevent Venezuela from joining BRICS. The instruction to veto Caracas’s possible accession came from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

‘The Commune Is Nothing New Here’: The Rio Cataniapo Commune

October 22, 2024 Chris Gilbert and Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuelanalysis. Create! Communes, Indigenous Peoples, Socialism, Venezuela

Early in the last decade a set of communities along the Cataniapo River started to organize themselves to protect the river’s ecosystem and bolster their agricultural and handicraft production. A few years later, in response to Chávez’s call to build socialist communes, 15 community councils in the area came together to form the Rio Cataniapo Commune. Today, approximately 1500 people participate in the Río Cataniapo Comune. They come from various ethnic backgrounds, but the majority identify as Indigenous and some still practice common ownership of land.

Cuba: Power Outages Prolonged Due To Delays In Energy Recovery

October 20, 2024 Telesur, Resumen English. Educate! Cuba, Economic Blockade, Energy, Solidarity, Venezuela

Today, Cuba once again experienced a total power outage after the recovery process of the National Electric System (SEN), initiated the day before following a blackout caused by a failure at a thermoelectric plant, failed. The Caribbean nation is unable to purchase or modernize its electrical machinery due to the draconian, unilateral blockade of the US. The process of re-energizing the SEN was then initiated, gradually restoring power to certain areas of the country with the goal of expanding and connecting them to eventually reach the thermoelectric plants and restart them. However, a new total disconnection thwarted the progress that had been made.

Anticipating Escalation: Neutralizing Swarming’s Armed Front

October 18, 2024 Misión Verdad, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! CIA, Drug Trafficking, Maria Corina Machado, Mercenaries, Regime Change, Spain, Venezuela

In her effort to readjust the agenda of regime change and in the face of a clear mood of demobilization within her ranks, María Corina Machado has decided to publicly incorporate the concept of “swarming“ into her narrative. This decision reflects the consolidation of a path that goes beyond what is attempted to be presented as “peaceful protest” by proposing a more aggressive form of confrontation, embedded in the scope of military operations, while using the discourse on human rights to counteract the possible limitations suffered by the violent actions that the far right hopes to set in motion.

Applying/Misapplying Gramsci’s Passive Revolution To Latin America

October 17, 2024 Steve Ellner, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, BRICS, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Gramsci, Honduras, Latin America, Nicaragua, Passive Revolution, Pink Tide, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The second wave of progressive Latin American governments that began with the election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico in 2018 does not have the aura of excitement surrounding the first, dating back to Hugo Chávez in 1998. It is not only characterized by pragmatism, but lacks the slogans and banners of radical change associated with Chávez and Evo Morales. As stated by former Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in the face of challenges from an aggressive right, the second-wave left “turned up to the fight in an already exhausted state.”

Global South Denounces Genocide; Nicaragua Ends Relations With Israel

October 13, 2024 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Resistance Report Benjamin Netanyahu, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Fascism, Gaza, Genocide, Haaretz, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Latin America, Mexico, Nicaragua, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Sandinistas, South Africa, Venezuela

More and more countries in the Global South are cutting relations with Israel, accusing it of committing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. United Nations experts have stated that there “are reasonable grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide … has been met”, adding that “the genocide in Gaza is the most extreme stage of a long-standing settler colonial process of erasure of the native Palestinians”. Scientific experts have estimated that 186,000 Palestinians will die due to Israel’s war of extermination on Gaza, representing roughly 8% of the population of the densely populated strip.

President Maduro Orders Checks Of All Army Communication Devices

September 27, 2024 Ultimos Noticias, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! China, Cybersecurity, Drones, Israel, Lebanon, Nicolas Maduro, terrorist attack, Venezuela, Zionism

The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has asked the Bolivarian National Armed Forces to proceed with plans to review all communications and cyber equipment owned by the national military and security institution, in order to prevent such equipment from being used to attack the country. During his participation in the 19th anniversary commemoration of the Strategic Operational Command of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (CEOFANB) this Thursday, September 26, President Maduro explained that this decision was made after the Israeli settler state recently hacked communication devices such as cell phones or pagers to carry out terrorist attacks in Lebanon, killing dozens and injuring thousands.

Edmundo González Recognizes Nicolás Maduro’s Victory

September 20, 2024 Yuleidys Hernández Toledo, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! 2024 Venezuelan elections, Edmundo González, Elections, Nicolas Maduro, Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), Venezuela

The former presidential candidate of the Venezuelan far right, Edmundo González, has recognized the electoral victory of Nicolás Maduro in the presidential election of July 28 and is now abiding by the decision issued on August 22 by the Electoral Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ), which—following an expert opinion process carried out by national and international analysts—validated the electoral results issued by the National Electoral Council (CNE) declaring Nicolás Maduro the winner. González wrote a letter that he signed in front of the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, which the deputy read this Wednesday, September 18, during a press conference.

Venezuela Arrests Another US Citizen In Alleged Mercenary Plot

September 19, 2024 Odry Farnetano, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! CIA, Diosdado Cabello, Mercenaries, Operation Gideon, US Imperialism, Venezuela, weapons

The Venezuelan Minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace Diosdado Cabello reported that another US citizen linked to a terrorist plan against the peace of Venezuela was arrested. “We were following him, he took photos of military facilities, electricity infrastructure and state entities, using the excuse of being a tourist,” he said during his speech at the plenary session of the National Assembly on Tuesday, September 17, where he was invited to present of the newly unveiled mercenary plot. Following the alert about a terrorist plot to smuggle grenades and explosives into the country, an investigation was carried out that led to the capture of three citizens.

The US Attempted Coup In Venezuela Uses New Cyber Tools

September 15, 2024 Stansfield Smith, Popular Resistance. Educate! Cyber Warfare, Elections, US coup, Venezuela

The peoples around the world have looked to Venezuela as a vanguard leading Nuestra América in its second independence struggle, against the US. The US rulers operate as the inheritor of the European colonial empires, assuming the right to interfere in other countries’ elections, and dictate who are the winners. No other country - save US underlings in Europe, and Israel - dares to violate international law so brazenly. The Venezuelan right-wing had no real plan to win a democratic election, but instead prepared for a coup d’etat even before the polls closed. Working with the US government and corporate media, they allege President Maduro stole the July 28 presidential election, then committed human rights abuses to crush protests.

Venezuela Announces Dismantling Of CIA-Backed Coup Plot

September 15, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! 2024 Venezuelan elections, CIA, Coups, Nicolas Maduro, US coups, US Imperialism, Venezuela

In a press conference given on September 14, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced that authorities had dismantled an operation reportedly backed by the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States and the National Intelligence Center of Spain, which sought to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Cabello, and other government officials. The minister announced that Venezuelan authorities had seized 400 weapons from the US and arrested 14 mercenaries who were involved in the plot. Among the arrested is Wilber Joseph Castañeda, an active US military officer and Navy Seal. Two Spanish citizens were reportedly also arrested, José María Basua and Andrés Badasbe.

US Imposes New Imperial Sanctions Against Venezuelan Officials

September 14, 2024 Ana Perdigón, Orinoco Tribune. Educate! Elections, Sanctions, US Imperialism, Venezuela

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), belonging to the US Department of the Treasury, has imposed new set of unlawful sanctions against Venezuela. The new sanctions, announced by a US Treasury press release published this Thursday, September 12, target 16 officials from different public branches and the military for supporting the sovereign and democratic will of the Venezuelan people in the last presidential elections on July 28 and refusing to follow the latest US-led imperial coup plot aiming at ousting President Nicolás Maduro. According to the statement, the new sanctions against Venezuela include “key officials” involved in the presidential elections, which gave Nicolás Maduro the victory with more than 52% of the votes.

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