Latest Venezuela

• Uzcátegui: Standing by a Radical Chávez

  A key figure from the newly-formed Popular Revolutionary Alternative talks about his expectations for the upcoming parliamentary elections
• Lackowski: A strategy comes home to roost

  The United States has used fake claims of electoral fraud to destabilize other countries; now Donald Trump is using this same weapon against the United States itself
• Aguilera: Communal Organisation: The Barcelona Experience

  Venezuelan communard Iran Aguilera examines the advances of popular power in Anzoátegui State
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  Fuentes: Maduro’s anti-blockade law deepens debate over revolution’s future

  Maduro proposed the new anti-blockade law, arguing it is essential to helping circumvent the sanctions. But some sectors believe it represents an important departure from the socialist policies of his predecessor, Hugo Chávez
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  Ellner: US Sanctions on Venezuela Are Deadly — and Facing Mass Resistance

  For years, right-wingers have sought to destabilize Venezuela, and even proclaimed their own rival “president,” Juan Guaidó. But average Venezuelans understand that US sanctions hurt them — and should be resisted
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  Fuentes: Venezuela: Could rebellion in the ranks spell trouble for Maduro?

  Venezuela is witnessing a rise in “protests of the poor, driven by the difficult situation people face.”
• Iturriza: Chavismo and the Left

  A Chavista author and former minister talks about the Bolivarian Revolution’s innovations and internal tensions
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  Prashad: Venezuela’s Ability to Fight COVID-19 Is Badly Hamstrung by the 31 Metric Tons of Gold Stolen From Its Treasury

  The U.S.-driven sanctions have negatively impacted the capacity of the Venezuelan people to thrive and exercise their human rights
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  Cole: As Trump and Iran square off on Venezuela Oil Shipments, will US Go full Pirate of the Gulf?

  The purpose would be to ramp up US patriotism ahead of the November election and attempt to get the US public on Trump’s side as a war president
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  Flores: The Stage Is Set for a Venezuela October Surprise

  Senator Marco Rubio has been advising the Trump administration that military action against Venezuela would “ensure Florida’s Electoral College votes in November
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  Iqbal: Venezuela and Palestine: A Revolutionary Alliance

  If this Venezuelan opposition comes to power with the help of American imperialists, the current pro-Israel and rightward shift in the political dynamics of Latin America will get further consolidated
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  Ellner: The Juan Guaidó Strategy Has Proven to be a Fiasco

  Now What will Washington Do?
• Kunich: Alba TV’s New Model for Communication

  The coordinator of a media platform that works with social movements talks about the history and challenges of popular communication
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  Prashad: How the U.S. Failed at Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela

  Trump wants a war, but not an open war; the U.S. military knows that it might be able to flatten Caracas, but it would not be able to win a war against the Venezuelan people
• Dos Santos: Tales of Resistance: On the Road Again

  Reflections on the justice system and the importance of fighting to improve it
• Lebowitz: Popular protagonism in Venezuela’s transition to socialism

  Capitalism, which destroys human beings and nature, must be ended, but you can not build socialism without the protagonism by which people change themselves
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  Ellner: Trump’s Second Thoughts on Juan Guaido are Not Enough

  After the president’s change of heart on Venezuela, and the waning of Juan Guaidó and his party, the entire Washington political establishment have a lot of explaining to do
• Salas: Venezuela’s Economy Under Siege

  A polemical economist reflects on the government’s policies in the face of harsh sanctions, including its general tendency toward dollarization.
• Livingstone: The UK is trying to meddle in Latin America once more

  A look at British complicity in Trump’s regime change agenda
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  Koerner: WOLA: Media’s ‘Left’ Source for Pro-Coup Propaganda in Venezuela

  The US blockade is a naked expression of imperial might, which WOLA and other Western propaganda amplifiers hide behind empty rhetoric about “democracy” and “human rights.”
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  Prashad: Why Iran’s Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders Through Washington

  At the United Nations China has been outspoken against the regime change policy driven by the United States against both states. It has been this Chinese shield that enabled the tankers to go through what is effectively a U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela
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  Koerner: Trump Claims to Have Venezuela ‘Surrounded’ as Iranian Tankers Approach

  Venezuela’s armed forces will escort the vessels upon reaching territorial waters.
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  Hasan: The “Coup” Attempt in Venezuela Seems Ridiculous

  We do not know whether Trump and Co. were involved in the Goudreau-inspired attempted attack on Maduro. What we do know, though, is that they continue to try and starve and bully Venezuela into submission
• Doliner: The Venezuela Kerfuffle and the Secret Team

  This incident casts light on the apparently inevitable Keystone Cops flavor of CIA operations
• Jiménez: Mercenaries, pandemic and riots in Venezuela

  A grassroots perspective