President Trump has begun a process of mass deportations of Latin Americans whom he terms “criminal illegal aliens” or “terrorists” and “gang members.” As part of this policy, Trump is taking steps to end birthright citizenship, a move that would disproportionately affect nearly 70 million Latinos in the US. Arbitrary arrests, deportations, and the revocation …
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By Susan Grey, Venezuela Soldarity Campaign Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two year old girl currently being held in the United States, after being separated from her family by immigration officials. Maikelys Antonella Espinoza Bernal Espinoza arrived in Texas in May 2024 with her parents Yorely Bernal Inciarte and …
The case of Maikelys Espinoza – a two year old child detained in the USA.Read More »
By Vijay Prashad for Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. No country should go through what Venezuela has been going through since 2017. The FACTS graphic above shows that US-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures, or UCMs) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to …
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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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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 …
Statement: Trump’s mass deportations of migrants must be condemned.Read More »
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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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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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 …
Seeing Venezuela in-person shows why US/British sanctions are a crimeRead More »
The role of the US and its allies The US and its allies were calling for Nicolás Maduro to recognise the election result right up until the polls closed, but only claimed irregularities in the election once it was clear that their candidate Edmundo González had lost. These claims made headline news. This refusal of …
By Tim Young Early signs of what the incoming Trump administration in the US has in store for Venezuela were revealed in mid-November with the approval by the House of Representatives of a new Bill tightening the existing blockade against Venezuela. The Bill, which still requires Senate approval, is entitled Banning Operations and Leases with …
With Trump & Rubio on the way, US blockade tightens its grip on VenezuelaRead More »
