By Francisco Dominguez, VSC Secretary In Venezuela, elections are organised by the National Electoral Council, which has Constitutional status. It is composed of five people: three of them nominated by civil society, one by the faculties of legal and political sciences of national universities, and one by the Citizen’s Power. The electoral system is very …
By the staff of OrinocoTribune.com The current political situation in Venezuela is highly favorable for Chavismo in the upcoming presidential elections according to the latest poll by the Venezuelan consulting firm Hinterlaces. The poll also revealed a vast majority of the population has no confidence in the opposition. On Friday, March 8, Hinterlaces published a …
By Matt Willgress A significant development took place recently with regards to British foreign policy. A meeting of The Permanent Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (Copppal) condemned the recent sending to Guyana’s Coast of a British warship, which the British Government has stationed as part of its ‘regime change’ agenda …
By Francisco Dominguez, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign On 3rd February, exactly 25 years ago, Hugo Chavez Frias was inaugurated as president of the then Republic of Venezuela. Under his political leadership it would, in less than a year, become the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, unleashing a process of radical transformation that would not only transform his …
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By Tim Young, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Prompted by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and its impact on oil supplies, and also by recent events in the Middle East, the US has eased some of sanctions that it has been levying on Venezuela in pursuit of its goal of ‘regime change’. The sanctions which are part …
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By José Luis Granados Ceja for Venezuelanalysis. Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has signed at least three spot sales contracts and is in the midst of negotiating more supply deals following Washington’s temporary easing of sanctions on the country’s energy sector. Since 2017, PDVSA has been under US sanctions, including an export embargo that has …
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By José Luis Granados Ceja for Venezuelanalysis Leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean put the spotlight on the environmental, political, economic, and social causes of migration, highlighting the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures, in their joint declaration at the Palenque Summit in Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador hosted leaders from Venezuela, …
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This article originally appeared on Venezuelanalysis The US Treasury Department emitted a license allowing production, investment and sale in the Venezuelan oil, gas and gold sectors, a move classified by the Venezuelan government as the suspension of sanctions on state-owned oil company PDVSA. On Wednesday afternoon, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued …
By Logan Williams, for The Morning Star SIGN THE PETITION HERE – GIVE VENEZUELA BACK ITS GOLD With the recent announcement that Venezuela has succeeded in its legal battle to recover €1.3 billion illegally confiscated by Portuguese bank Novo Banco, the fight to return Venezuelan gold held by the Bank of England must be reinvigorated, …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_s-J7l9rdM The online launch of the pamphlet Maduro : A decade continuing Chávez’s socialist, anti-imperialist struggle, following the recent successful launch in London. With the pamphlet’s author, Dr. Francisco Dominguez. Buy the pamphlet here from the GFTU website
