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ANALYSIS: Trump’s sanctions are hindering Venezuela dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic

Analysis

By Tim Young. Venezuela Solidarity Campaign Venezuela’s efforts to protect its population from the COVID-19 pandemic are being jeopardised by Trump’s aggressive tactics towards the country. Trump’s strengthening of illegal US sanctions against Venezuela since 2017 – creating an economic blockade of the type employed against Cuba since the 1960s – have weakened its health …

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No to Trump and the pirates of the Caribbean | Tim Young

Analysis

THE US’s recent action of seizing the cargoes of four oil tankers allegedly carrying Iranian petrol to Venezuela has provided the Trump administration with the perfect opportunity to simultaneously attack two of its enemies in election year. Iran and Venezuela, both oil-producing countries, are subject to swingeing illegal sanctions through which the US seeks to …

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VIDEO: Interview with VSC’s Francisco Dominguez for the Orinoco Tribune

Analysis

This piece originally appeared in the Orinoco Tribune In this new episode of Chavista Chronicles from Caracas we had the pleasure and honor to interview Francisco Dominguez in London, UK. Dominguez is a Chilean academic and political refugee devoted to building solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution not only in the UK but also all over …

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Venezuela, and Trump’s Irrational Electoral Policy

Analysis, News

By Jorge Arreaza Montserrat From Caracas, Venezuela Elections always have an interesting effect on public policy, in particular if the person in charge of designing and implementing a certain policy is up for reelection. In politics, it is logical that an incumbent candidate decides to show successful policies and accomplishments while minimizing failures or shortcomings. …

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ADD YOUR NAME: Oppose Trump’s sanctions on Venezuela

Action, Statements

CLICK HERE TO SIGN We oppose Trump’s illegal sanctions on Venezuela, which have created an ever—tightening economic blockade. This is severely hampering Venezuela’s efforts to tackle the coronavirus outbreak and putting the lives of ordinary people at risk. Under US influence, the IMF has also refused a $5 billion loan request by Venezuela to combat …

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Give Venezuela Back Its Gold – No to Trump’s Illegal ‘Regime Change’ Agenda

Statements

The shameful political nature of the Bank of England’s refusal to release Venezuela’s gold deposits was made clear in court this week. Lawyers for the Venezuelan Central Bank went to court to force the Bank of England to release funds to the United Nations Development Programme for the purchase of much-needed supplies of food and …

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The Tories are complicit in Trump’s illegal ‘regime change’ agenda in Venezuela

Analysis

By Ken Livingstone for The Morning Star THE Westminster government’s “special relationship” with the US was again demonstrated last week as that of a lapdog obeying its master while hoping for a few crumbs from the table. Specifically, on June 9 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) revealed that the secret Venezuela Reconstruction Unit had …

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Video: Exposing UK complicity in Trump’s regime change plan

Analysis, Events, Videos

With investigative journalist John McEvoy (who exposed UK Unit for Venezuela ‘reconstruction’), Dr. Francisco Dominguez, Susan Grey, VSC, Colin Burgon of Labour Friends of Progressive Latin America. Recent revelations of a ‘Venezuela reconstruction unit’ are just the latest in a long line of signals the British Government is working to Donald Trump’s agenda for regime …

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The UK is trying to meddle in Latin America once more | Ken Livingstone

Analysis

By Ken Livingstone for The Morning Star RECENT revelations of a “Venezuela Reconstruction Unit” in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office show that once again Britain’s Conservative government is falling into line with US foreign policy and acting as Trump’s poodles on the world stage. The unit’s stated aims are to “co-ordinate a British approach to …

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