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Trump Calls For Naval Blockade Of Venezuela

August 22, 2019 Bill Van Auken, Wsws.org , , , ,
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called upon his national security officials and senior military commanders to draw up plans for a US naval blockade of Venezuela to stop all goods from either entering or leaving the country. Such an illegal military intervention would come on top of a set of unilateral US sanctions that already amount to an effective embargo, tantamount to an act of war. Earlier this month, according to Reuters, when asked by a reporter whether he was considering a naval embargo, he responded, “Yes, I am,” without elaborating on his plans.

Embassy Protection Defense Committee Calls On Trump Administration To Drop All Charges

August 21, 2019 From The Embassy Defense Protection Committee , ,
The newly formed Embassy Protectors Defense Committee created in response to the arrest and bogus charges leveled by the Trump Administration against the last four remaining activists of the Embassy Protective Collective that occupied the Venezuela Embassy for 37 days, has launched an international campaign to demand that the Trump administration drop all Federal charges against the protectors. 

Russia Signs Deal To Send Navy To Venezuela After ‘Unacceptable’ U.S. Moves

August 20, 2019 Tom O'Connor, Newsweek.com , , , ,
The Russian military has signed a deal that would allow it to send military ships to Venezuela, expressing support for the Latin American country. The U.S. has been critical of current Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, and has backed attempts to replace him. Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino met Thursday in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, with whom he "signed an agreement on the visits of warships to the ports of both states and discussed the situation in Venezuela, as well as issues of bilateral military and military-technical cooperation."

Venezuelans March Against US Embargo In Enormous #NoMoreTrump Protest

August 15, 2019 Ben Norton, The Grayzone , ,
Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans responded to Trump’s executive order by flooding the streets of the capital, Caracas. They protested the crippling US blockade with the slogans “No more Trump!” (No más Trump!) and “Trump unblock Venezuela!” On August 10, Venezuela and solidarity groups around the world held a joint protest against the embargo. The demonstration was gigantic — one of the largest I have attended in my life. If you stood in place and watched the march go by, you could witness rows and rows of demonstrators proceed for possibly an hour.

China Ignores New US Sanctions And Increases Support For Venezuelan Oil

August 15, 2019 Paul Dobson, Venezuelanalysis. , , ,
Mérida – The Venezuelan government has announced the expansion of Chinese investment in the country’s oil industry, with the aim of increasing production by 120,000 barrels per day. The investment, which authorities say is worth US $3 billion, financed the construction of a new oil blending plant inaugurated last Thursday as the first part of the two-stage plan. The “Jose” plant, which is located in Barcelona, Anzoátegui State, is to be run by the Sinovensa joint venture, which is 49 percent owned by China’s National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and 51 percent by Venezuela’s PDVSA state-run oil company. The facility will blend extra-heavy grades from Venezuela’s Orinoco Oil Belt into the exportable Merey crude, which is popular in Asian markets. Sinovensa currently produces 110,000 barrels per day (bpd), a figure which officials claim will increase to 165,000 bpd with the addition of the new blending plant.

Lust For Profits, Not Love Of Democracy: The Real Reason Washington Wants Maduro Gone

August 14, 2019 Stephen Gowans, Gowans.blog , , , ,
In Inventing Reality: The Politics of the News Media, political scientist Michael Parenti wrote that, “Even when we don’t believe what the media say, we are still hearing or reading their viewpoints rather than some other. They are still setting the agenda.” [1] And the agenda they’ve set on Venezuela is built on the questions of whether the government of Nicolas Maduro is authoritarian and whether its so-called ‘socialist’ policies have ruined the country’s economy.

The U.S. Terrorist War Against Venezuela

August 14, 2019 Stella Calloni, Redh-cuba.org , , ,
We are witnessing one of the biggest acts of terrorism, not only economic but of all kinds, on behalf of the United States in its war against Venezuela. Because this is what the criminal freezing of the South American country’s assets in U.S. territory is about, suffocating its population and government amidst an imperial offensive boosted since last January 23rd following another failed coup attempt. The economic, financial and commercial blockade adds up to these measures...

The Spoils of Economic War: How The US, Saudis Profit From Sanctions On Venezuela And Iran

August 12, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , ,
The United States has been playing the role of the world's economic bully. So far, the U.S. has imposed sanctions against Afghanistan, Burundi, Burma, Cuba, North Korea, China, Cyprus, Haiti, Libya, Lebanon, Belarus, Crimea, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Russia, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Russia, Ukraine, Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe. But if unilateral harassment has proven itself historically ineffective at achieving conventional geopolitical objectives, why does the U.S. insist on bullying Venezuela and Iran?

The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire

August 11, 2019 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance , , , ,
"We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures." That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony "interim president" Juan Guaido are saying the US has gone too far. All of the countries listed above and many more have stated their opposition to the escalation of the US economic war against Venezuela. Venezuela, along with Iran, has become a prime target of US regime change, and both are uniting the world in opposition to the US' bullying behavior, which is hastening the demise of US domination. Popular social movements are growing against US unilateralism and violations of international law.

International Day Of Action To Protest The Increased US Blockade Of Venezuela

August 11, 2019 Popular Resistance. , , ,
On Monday, August 5, President Trump signed an Executive Order that worsens the US blockade of Venezuela. The order can be used to basically go after any person or entity that supports the Maduro administration. It also includes restrictions on travel for people who support the current government. Here is Popular Resistance's statement about the blockade. While the order has language saying it won't impact access to food and medicine, just two days after it was signed a ship carrying 25 thousands tons of soy was held up in Panama. Citing the blockade, the Maduro government decided not to send representatives to the next round of talks with the opposition in Barbados. Instead, millions of Venezuelans were urged to sign a document that will be delivered to the United Nations denouncing the blockade. Saturday, August 10, was declared a World Protest Day against the Venezuelan Blockade.

U.S. Shows Plan To Impose Its Tutelage On Venezuela

August 11, 2019 By Aram Aharonian, Pressenza.com. , , ,
The blockade and the new sanctions that freeze all Venezuelan assets in U.S. territory, ordered by the regime of Donald Trump, is nothing more than another act of economic terrorism that seeks, in the first place, to break the dialogue between the constitutional government and the opposition and marks the attempt to impose a tutelage on the country. The decision was applauded by the opposition Juan Guaidó, self-proclaimed interim president last January, and whose credibility and ancestry has come in low, according to all opinion polls. The meeting of U.S. allies/accomplices held in Peru aimed to find a solution to the Venezuelan crisis, but ended with no concrete result. There, Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, privately presented a series of “suggestions” that his country poses for an eventual day after Maduro’s exit from power.

ALBA Countries Condemn Trump’s Total Blockade Against Venezuela

August 10, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net , ,
This U.S. unilateral action is a new violation of the United Nations Charter and other international laws, the alliance said in a statement. The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) issued a statement this week condemning the economic blockade that U.S. President Donald Trump has authorized against the Venezuelan people and their government. “The ALBA-TCP countries alert the international community about this new escalation of aggressions against Venezuela by the U.S. government...

Washington Orders International Embargo On Venezuela, Threatens Invasion

August 9, 2019 Andrea Lobo, Wsws.org , ,
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday freezing “all property and interests in property of the Government of Venezuela that are in the United States.” The move is the culmination of a series of increasingly severe sanctions and marks a new stage in the US coup operation against the Government of Nicolás Maduro. By fully cutting access to the financial, capital and consumer markets controlled by the United States government, at the center of global capitalism, this attack constitutes an embargo of the Venezuelan economy, an act of war according to international law.

US Sanctions Threaten Famine In Venezuela, Leading Economist Warns

August 8, 2019 Aaron Maté, Thegrayzone.com , , , ,
Top Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez says the Trump administration’s sanctions have cost Venezuela $16.9 billion per year – and caused food shortages that threaten hundreds of thousands of deaths. Guest: Francisco Rodríguez, Chief Economist at Torino Economics in New York, former head of the Venezuelan National Assembly’s Economic and Financial Advisory Office, and former adviser to opposition Venezuelan presidential candidate Henri Falcon.

US Strangulation Of Venezuela’s Economy Officially Becomes An Embargo

August 8, 2019 Staff, Mision Verdad , , ,
Monday, the Trump Administration reached a new zenith in its destructive acts against the Venezuelan economy and society by extending to the category of embargo the coercive and unilateral measures against the Bolivarian Republic. According to The Wall Street Journal, this measure consists of a “total economic embargo”. Once again through his often used Executive Order the U.S. president is strengthening all actions prohibiting any relationship with the Venezuelan state by any company on U.S. soil or related to that country.
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