By Matt Willgress Recent developments in Venezuela have been the culmination of intensifying hostility from the US administration over several months. This aggressive agenda has included increasingly harsh sanctions aimed at putting Venezuela under siege, and comments from Trump himself, Vice- President Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, among others, that have included threats …
YOU won’t read about it much in those parts of the media currently arguing for war on Venezuela, but when Hugo Chavez first became president in 1999, Venezuela had endured a wave of economic and social catastrophes in the preceding two decades. Up to seven in 10 people had been left in poverty. Income per …
Travelling with Hugo Chavez, I soon understood the threat of Venezuela. At a farming co-operative in Lara state, people waited patiently and with good humour in the heat. Jugs of water and melon juice were passed around. A guitar was played; a woman, Katarina, stood and sang with a husky contralto. “What did her words say?” …
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We stand with progress and democracy in Venezuela – Tony Burke TO INTRODUCE myself, I’m Tony Burke, chair of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, who called today’s event and I am also speaking on behalf of Unite the Union and Workers Uniting, the Global Union. Workers Uniting is the global union — representing more than two …
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Perilous times for Venezuela By Fiona Edwards, VSC EC The Venezuelan people are facing a grave and dangerous situation, as the US dramatically escalates its campaign to oust Venezuela’s democratically elected government. Donald Trump’s decision on Wednesday January 23 to recognise the unelected right-wing opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s “interim president” is confirmation that …
The ‘Lima Group’ Pretense to Be an International Body Is Irresponsible and Dangerous Analyst Nino Pagliccia examines the Lima Group’s efforts to promote regime change in Venezuela. Sixty years ago Canada did not break diplomatic relations with Cuba while the OAS expelled Cuba from the organization after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Today the …
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Yet another piece of reporting in the mainstream media – this time The Guardian –has failed to acknowledge the wider political and economic context of Venezuela’s current condition – while at the same time presenting a distorted, negative picture. What follows will look at: the lack of any serious analysis of the impact of …
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has imposed sweeping new sanctions on Venezuela, this time focused on the gold sector. These latest sanctions aim to attack Venezuela’s gold production and trade and deny it hard currency to pay for the import of food and medicines. Venezuela has extensive gold reserves, estimated as the second largest in the …
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Trump has Venezuela in his sights As the sabre-rattling statments mount up, just how close is military intervention, asks VSC’s TIM YOUNG PRESIDENT Trump has again raised the possibility of regime change in Venezuela, as talk of military intervention against its democratically elected government grows in the United States. Speaking recently at the UN, he …
No to Almagro’s call for military intervention against Venezuela – No to Trump’s ‘regime change’ agenda By Francisco Dominguez, VSC Secretary On 13th September at a rally held after a press conference in Cucuta, a Colombian town on the border with Venezuela, the Secretary General of the Organisation for American States Luis Almagro said: “With …
