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Trump Targets Migrants amid Human Trafficking Allegation

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by Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris for Dissident Voice Donald Trump has launched an aggressive campaign that targets Latino migrants – particularly Venezuelans – as scapegoats in a broader geopolitical agenda. Bolstered through a controversial alliance with the Salvadoran president, Trump has overseen mass deportations, detentions in Guantánamo Bay and El Salvador’s notorious CECOT …

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Statement: Trump’s mass deportations of migrants must be condemned.

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Joint statement by Venezuela Solidarity Campaign and Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group. The Trump administration has invoked the 1798 Alien and Enemies Act as a thinly veiled legal pretext to justify the mass expulsion of Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and others. Some deportees have been sent to detention facilities such as the notorious internment camp in Guantanamo …

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The greatest attack any country in Latin America and the Caribbean has ever suffered

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The Trump administration, invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, deported 238 Venezuelan immigrants—not to Venezuela, but to a supermax prison in El Salvador. This action followed an agreement with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, under which the Central American country is reportedly set to receive $6 million from the U.S. government. Without providing conclusive evidence, …

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Joint Statement: No War on Venezuela

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We, the undersigned, condemn the recent calls for US military intervention against Venezuela, including in “The New York Times,” and from former Colombian President Uribe. With Trump returning to the Presidency – having previously advocated military intervention against Venezuela with the aim of ‘regime change,’ illegal under international law – these calls must be taken …

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US Media Promotes Military Intervention In Venezuela

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By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris, for Popular Resistance. The New York Times, the so-called US “newspaper of record,” carried an opinion piece by one of its columnists promoting “military intervention” to promote “democracy” by overturning the democratically elected government of Venezuela. The central tenet of the NYT piece is that the moral basis for deposing the current …

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Seeing Venezuela in-person shows why US/British sanctions are a crime

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Fiona Sim, Black Liberation Alliance, for The Morning Star IT’S BEEN a whirlwind of a week in Caracas, Venezuela, and a gut-punch to empire and imperialism. As part of a British delegation to Venezuela, I was privileged to witness first hand the strength and tenacity of the Bolivarian revolution. Every day has been another nail …

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Message from Caracas – from VSC Secretary Francisco Dominguez

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It’s highly regrettable that the UK govt has again capitulated to the US ‘regime change’ narrative and has applied more sanctions against the democratically-elected govt of Venezuela. The electoral victory of Nicolas Maduro as president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is a guarantee that not only social progress continues (such as the 5 million …

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Initial VSC response to more illegal UK sanctions on Venezuela

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“The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign condemns the UK Government joining in with Trump’s illegal ‘regime change’ agenda in Venezuela, with the introduction of further sanctions on January 10. We also condemn the US putting a bounty on the head of Venezuela’s head of state Nicolas Maduro – an aggressive & extreme move against national sovereignty. We …

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