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  Emersberger: Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried by Reuters

  Even worse than being the “resistance” to Maduro is that Reuters has often made itself the “assistance” to politicians like Rubio, who are vicious enough to celebrate the economic strangulation of millions of people
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  Ellner: Explanations for the Current Crisis in Venezuela

  Debunking the myth (systematically promoted by Washington) that the Venezuelan “crisis” preceded the implementation of U.S. sanctions and thus the Maduro government alone is to blame for the current catastrophe
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  Zeese: Uniting To Protect Venezuela And Stop The US War Machine

  The attack on the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC was part of a coordinated strategy of attacking Venezuelan embassies in other countries including Chile and Argentina
• Leet: Washington Doubles Down on its Military Intervention Script in Venezuela

  Since the Venezuelan opposition again failed to oust Maduro, extreme elements in Caracas and Washington are increasingly agitating for U.S. military intervention
• Grajales: Building Socialism from Below

  Chavez’s socialist project lives on as an array of self-organized initiatives
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  Engler: Why is Ottawa aligning itself with Venezuela’s most anti-democratic elements?

  Venezuelans require a vibrant opposition that challenges the government. They don’t need Canada to boost an electorally marginal party that drives the country into increasing conflict
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  Koerner: Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press

  The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity...
• Jaua: Defending Chavez’s Project Today

  Can anybody in their right mind think that the private sector can save us right now, the very sector that failed to develop our economy for decades and decades?
• Fry: Venezuela Up Close

  It was 7 AM April 30th in Caracas when I awoke to hear gun shots outside my hotel. Our group, seven US citizens and one Canadian, had been in here since April 27 attending a housing conference and looked forward to the next day’s May Day celebration
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  Cohn: US Illegally Evicts Protectors From Venezuelan Embassy

  On May 16, law enforcement agents broke into the Venezuelan...
• Pine: Academic Arrested for Protecting the Venezuela Embassy

  As a scholar and educator, there are times when standard tools of teaching, publishing, and public speaking aren't enough. There are times when we need to put our bodies on the line
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  Zeese: Showdown at the Venezuelan Embassy

  Federal Authorities Back Down After Threatening to Evict Peace Activists Inside
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  Prashad: The Plot to Kill Venezuela

  And who is caught between an economy reliant on oil revenues and a sanctions regime designed to create suffering? The people caught in the squeeze of factors beyond their control
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  Fuentes: Venezuela’s crisis: A view from the communes

  Former president Hugo Chavez viewed the communes as the fundamental building blocks of a new communal state based on self-management and participatory democracy
• Cloughley: Washington’s Dogs of War Are Snarling at Iran and Venezuela

  Trump, Bolton, Pompeo and their uniformed puppets are confronting, taunting and goading Iran in the hope that its government will react military, whereupon Washington will rejoice and let loose the dogs of war
• Koehler: What’s Next: War with Veneuela?

  With our trillion dollar military budget, threatening (and waging) war is pretty much the only thing we know how to do as a nation
• Ron: A Debate on Maduro

  Two Venezuelans Oppose U.S. Intervention But Differ on Steps Ahead
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  Cohn: Trump’s “Troika of Tyranny” Meddles in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua

  Under the guise of protecting human rights, the Trump administration...
• Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela

  More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions, according to a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Vaz: Venezuelan Military Putsch Defeated

  Opposition protesters clashed with security forces while government supporters swiftly mobilized to defend the presidential palace
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  Koerner: Venezuelans Hold Rival Marches for Workers’ Day

  Pompeo Threatens 'Military Action’
• MacLeod: It’s Only a Coup if the US Government Says So

  Media side with Trump cronies rather than common sense in labeling coup a 'protest'
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  Dobson: How Long Does It Take To Write A New Constitution?

  A critical look at the performance of the National Constituent Assembly.
• Dos Santos: “So Much Work and Nothing to Show for It”

  Reflections on the upcoming Workers' Day and the struggles of the working class in the current crisis
• Marin: The Commune is the Supreme Expression of Participatory Democracy

  The commune is the historical subject, the commune and its people, the comuneros, that is where the revolution really begins. So we made this proposal ours, we committed to it