Latest Venezuela
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Ellner: Taking A Look At The Anti-Maduro Narrative
A nation’s economic problems should not justify intervention of any sort
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Prashad: Why Does U.S. Want to Overthrow Government of Venezuela?
A look at what drives the US to persist in its interventions—diplomatic, economic and military—against the Venezuelan government
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Schwarz: Rep. Omar Went After Elliott Abrams for Lying to Congress
Then He Did It Again
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Lovato: Abrams Bringing Violence of 1980s Latin America Policy to Venezuela
Interview on the violent history of Elliott Abrams and the U.S.-backed opposition in Venezuela
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Emersberger: Propaganda Blitz Against Venezuela’s Elected President
Media doesn't let facts get in the way
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Dobson: Venezuela: A Diplomatic Coup?
Why Guaido’s attempted coup has had next to no impact within Venezuela
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Wood: The Battle for Venezuela
In Latin America alone, the long and disastrous record of US-led interventions is enough to cause alarm about the possible outcomes of this crisis
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Nichols: Spain’s ‘socialist’ government to US: ‘Coup against Maduro? We’re in!’
Clearly, the job of all people opposed to the Trump administration coup is to mobilise to make this dilemma as excruciating as possible for the “socialists” backing the Washington warmongers
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Ellner: Regime Change: “Made In The U.S.A.”
Trump’s unwavering backing of Juan Guaidó’s shadow government in Venezuela attaches a “made in the U.S.A.” label to all those positioned to govern should Maduro fall
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MacLeod: ‘Venezuela’: Media’s One-Word Rebuttal to Threat of Socialism
The simplistic narrative of a socialist dictatorship starving its own people provides great utility as a weapon for the establishment to beat back the domestic “threat” of socialism
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Hudson: The price of the U.S. economic attack on Venezuela
The Saker: Could you summarize the state of Venezuela’s economy...
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Examining mainstream media claims that Maduro "stole" the 2018 presidential election
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Shupak: US Media Ignore—and Applaud—Economic War on Venezuela
The US government acknowledges that it is knowingly, consciously driving the Venezuelan economy into the ground, but US media make no such acknowledgment
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Harris: Juan Guaidó Doesn’t Have a Constitutional Leg to Stand On
The Guaidó/Trump cabal does not reflect the democratic consensus in Venezuela, where polls consistently show super majorities oppose outside intervention
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de Sousa Santos: The New Cold War and Venezuela
Why are the US and its European acolytes embarking on an aggressive and maximalist stance that makes any negotiated solution outright impossible?
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García: Savage Capitalism or Socialism
Interview on the short and long term defense of Venezuela's sovereignty
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Robertson: Maduro Denounces Twitter Attack
Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro has denounced a “massive” Twitter attack against the Venezuelan government after thousands of accounts belonging to ministers and pro-government media and supporters were suspended
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Contributors: Venezuelan News Site Latest Victim in Facebook Censorship
Facebook has removed the page of yet another media outlet. This time, it’s not a far right fringe network like Infowars, but “Venezuela's only independent, grassroots leftwing English media platform,” the outlet, Venezuela Analysis, noted on Twitter
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Benjamin: Venezuela: The U.S.’s 68th Regime Change Disaster
The only things that will force such a radical change in U.S. policy are public outrage, education and organizing, and international solidarity with the people of Venezuela
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Baroud: Gaza Rallies for Caracas
Hundreds of Palestinians took to the streets of besieged Gaza to show their support of the democratically-elected government of Venezuela and it’s legitimate leader, President Nicolas Maduro
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Ellner: Trump Putting Venezuela on ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ List?
The Trump administration is actively exploring the option of placing Venezuela on the state sponsor of terrorism list, to further intensify sanctions that have already caused significant damage to Venezuela’s economy
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The siege-like conditions which Venezuela has been subjected to from both foreign interference and domestic opposition present a myriad of challenges for the country to move forward
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Wilpert: US Efforts to Sabotage Venezuelan Elections Intensify
Lucas Koerner is a journalist at Venezuelanalysis based in Caracas,...
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Weisbrot: Trump Renews Venezuela Sanctions
Trump renewed Obama's sanctions against Venezuela, declaring it an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the US, violating international law in the process
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Weisbrot: Venezuela’s New Economic Measures
The new measures can help alleviate some of Venezuela's economic problems, but do not address the heart of the problem, an inflation-depreciation spiral
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Weisbrot: New US Sanctions Against Venezuela
US sanctions against Venezuela, which VP Pence announced Wednesday, target Venezuelan debt and will make borrowing more expensive, hurting the people Trump claims to help
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Wilpert: Venezuelan Vote Count
The CEO of the company that sold and operates the voting machines in Venezuela says that there was a discrepancy of 1 million votes
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Martin: Opposition Violence at Venezuela Protests
Violent opposition protesters attempt to intimidate reporters
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Ellner: Constitutional Assembly a “Mixed Bag”
The Venezuelan government's call for a constitutional assembly is a positive step for breaking the political deadlock, but it still won't solve the country's most pressing problems
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Koerner: Massive Protests in Venezuela
While international media focused almost exclusively on the opposition protests and clashes with the police, the pro-government protests were equally as large
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Boothroyd Rojas: Why has Venezuela’s Supreme Court Assumed Legislative Power?
Discussion on the Venezuelan TSJ’s move to assume the legislative power of the AN
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Koerner: Between Recall Referendum and Parliamentary Coup: What’s going on in Venezuela?
Interview on the status of the presidential recall referendum in Venezuela, and the opposition-held National Assembly's recent attempt to impeach the president
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Golinger: Why the CIA Won’t Give Up on Venezuela
Interview about the Western backed resistance groups in Venezuela and how there is a coup happening in real time
Venezuela Blogs
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Fitz: Health Care in a Global Environment
It is possible to provide health care much more cheaply...
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Read my review of this fine book here
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Bohmer: Support the Victory of Nicolas Maduro as President
It is really important and our responsibility that we demand...
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Bohmer: My Statement at Memorial for Hugo Chavez
Talk at Hugo Chávez Memorial Peter Bohmer, Olympia, Washington March...
Venezuela Interviews
A series of interviews about Venezuela, interviewer: Michael Albert
August, 2013
Minister of the Interior Rodriguez 1
Minister of the Interior Rodriguez 2
February 2013
Supreme Court Judge Vegas
Venezuela Analysis Pearson
Venezuela Analysis Wilpert
2008 but still highly relevant...
Supreme Court Judge Vegas
Women's Bank, Castenada
Carora Mayor Julio Chavez