Venezuela

Venezuela Rejects the Dispossession of CITGO by the US

July 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

News from TeleSUR, June 17, 2024 The United States is still in the process of plundering Venezuela’s oil industry. CITGO, Venezuela’s oil refinery and merchandising business, was confiscated by the U.S. and given to fake president Juan Guaido. [jb] ‘The people will apply implacable justice to those who plotted this plunder against the Republic,’ VP Rodriguez said. On Monday, Venezuela[…]

The Biggest Obstacle to Free and Fair Elections in Venezuela is the US

June 2, 2024 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Democracy and Consent, Economic Blockade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Roger Harris, published on Counterpunch, May 22, 2024 For all the hullabaloo about “free and fair elections” in Venezuela by the US government, its sycophantic corporate press deliberately ignores the elephant in the room – namely, the so-called sanctions designed to make life so miserable that the people will acquiesce to Washington’s plan for regime change. As Foreign Policy[…]

Venezuela Condemns US Supreme Court Ruling on CITGO

January 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Neocolonial Economic Dominance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, Venezuela

from the Orinoco Tribune, published January 10, 2024 Venezuelan Minister of Communication and Information Freddy Ñáñez stated that the Venezuelan government condemns the recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to ratify the dispossession of CITGO Petroleum Corporation. Through a social media post published Tuesday, December 9, Minister Ñáñez wrote that the action violates the agreements signed in Barbados[…]

A Peoples’ Victory — Alex Saab is Free and Home in Venezuela!

December 25, 2023 UNAC Editor Action!!, Hybrid Warfare, International Law, Organizing, Political Prisoners, Resistance, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Government Action, Venezuela, War on the Poor

bu Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, December 21, 2023 Alex Saab is free and home in Venezuela. For three and a half years (1,280 days), Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat, had been held in torturous conditions by the U.S. government. (The author traveled to Cabo Verde in June 2021 in a delegation with Roger Harris and Bishop Felipe Teixeira in[…]

Guyana-Venezuela Dispute: Understanding the background and Opposing war

December 23, 2023 UNAC Editor Guyana, Latin America, Lawfare, Legal Struggles, Paths to Emancipation, Resource Wars, U.S. Aggression, Venezuela

by Francisco Dominguez, published on Countercurrents, December 18, 2023 If there were any misgivings about the actions undertaken by the government of Venezuela around the territorial dispute with Guyana, the joint military exercises between Guyana Defence Forces (GDF) and the US Southern Command (SouthCom) explain what really lies behind things. Venezuela’s claimed territory, also known as Guayana Esequiba, is 159,500 square kilometres[…]

How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Diplomacy, Political Prisoners, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, US Foreign Policy, Venezuela

by Roger D. Harris, published on Dissident Voice, December 21, 2023 Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.” The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington’s illegal economic coercive measures, also known[…]

ExxonMobil And a Possible War in South America

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Fascism, Guyana, Venezuela

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, December 5, 2023 News Americas, WASHINGTON, D.C., Mon. Dec. 4, 2023: On December 3, 2023, a large number of registered voters in Venezuela voted in a referendum over the Essequibo region that is disputed with neighboring Guyana. Nearly all those who voted answered yes to the five questions. These questions asked the Venezuelan people to affirm[…]

Alex Saab is Free: A victory Over US Imperialist Sanctions

December 21, 2023 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Political Prisoners, Venezuela

by staff, published on Fight Back! News, December 20, 2023 Miami, FL – Alex Saab, a Venezuelan diplomat, is now free after long negotiations between Venezuela’s government and the U.S. State Department. Saab flew back to Venezuela on Wednesday, December 20 into the waiting arms of his wife, Camilla Fabri Saab. He will be able to hug his children after[…]

Stop the Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinian People!

October 22, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Anti-War, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Palestine, Statement, Venezuela

Statement from Venezuelan Unions, published on Labor Today, October 21, 2023 We, the Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CUTV) and the Frente Nacional de Lucha de la Clase Trabajadora (FNLCT), strongly and categorically condemn the genocidal assault of the Zionist government. We strongly and categorically condemn the genocidal attack by the Zionist State of Israel against the Palestinian people. […]

United States: End detention of Venezuelan Special Envoy, UN experts say

October 1, 2023 UNAC Editor Lawfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

published on the Alliance for Global Justice website, September 27, 2023 GENEVA (27 September 2023) – UN experts* today urged the government of the United States of America to end the prolonged pre-trial detention of Alex Nain Saab Morán, a Venezuelan Special Envoy, arrested and extradited to the US on money laundering charges. Saab was appointed as a Special Envoy[…]