Monday, July 22 · 6:30PM BST Register here on Eventbrite With the new Venezuelan Ambassador Felix Plasencia & Dr. Francisco Dominguez. With elections fast approaching in Venezuela, the inevitable corporate media lies and upping of US sanctions is now underway. To counter this, we’re holding an essential briefing on what is really going on – …
Click here to add your name We condemn the decision of the Bank of England to refuse to return to Venezuela billions of dollars of its gold deposited there. This echoes the decision of Donald Trump – now maintained by President Biden – to impose tough economic sanctions on Venezuela to try to enforce unlawful …
By Tim Young, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign for Labour Briefing The United States has moved again to tighten the screws on Venezuela as it advances towards the presidential election to be held on 28th July. President Biden has reimposed sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas industry that were temporarily lifted in October last year, following agreement …
By Francisco Dominguez for The Morning Star The start of the election campaign period in Venezuela was almost axiomatically followed by a mass unity mobilisation of Chavista forces, a messy crisis of leadership and candidacy for the right-wing opposition and the announcement by the US of the imposition of more sanctions against the country’s main …
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Introduction Venezuela goes to the polls again on 28 July 2024 for the presidential election, held every six years as prescribed in Venezuela’s constitution. In Venezuela, elections are organised by the National Electoral Council (CNE), which has constitutional status. It is composed of five people: three are nominated by civil society, one by the faculties …
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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