Venezuela

Interview With Tom Burke of FRSO on Trump’s War Moves Against Venezuela

April 15, 2020 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Imperial Wars, Venezuela

by FRSO Staff, published by FRSO, April 13, 2020 Fight Back! interviewed Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Organizational Secretary Tom Burke, who led the FRSO labor delegation to Venezuela on March 8. Francisco Torrealba, president of the Venezuelan Transport Workers Federation, elected Venezuelan National Assembly member, and important leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) invited Burke and[…]

Venezuela and the Imperialist Confrontation in Latin America

July 23, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, Venezuela

The Imperialist Confrontation in Latin America What Are Our Tasks and Perspectives to Defend Venezuela? By Alison Bodine & Ali Yerevani Today, 200 years later, we can say it: After having lost that independence that cost so much, Venezuela, in these last ten years…has recovered its independence…and this recovered independence is a door that we should keep open so that[…]

UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela Faulty by Design

July 16, 2019 UNAC Editor United Nations, Venezuela

by Nino Pagliccia, published on Venezuelanalysis, July 8, 2019 Following Michelle Bachelet’s visit to Venezuela last June, the official report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) on the human rights situation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was released on July 4, a day before initially scheduled. Judging by the quick review I made, the mainstream[…]

Actions: No War, No Coup, End The Sanctions, Troops Home Now

June 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, Iran, Protest, Statement, Venezuela

By UNAC and Green Party Peace Action Committee, Popular Resistance, Published on Popular Resistance, June 22, 2019 UNAC supports the call from several member groups for local protests on or around the weekend of July 13 and 14 calling for No War on Iran, No U.S. Coup in Venezuela, End Sanctions Now, Bring all U.S. Troops home now. We urge[…]

How the Coup in Venezuela and the US Housing Crisis are Inextricably Connected

June 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Poverty and Sanctions, US Government Action, Venezuela, War on the Poor

by by Ajoke Williams and Kei Pritsker, Published on Mint Press News, June 18, 2019 The United States economy is organized such that all commodities, including both weapons and housing, drive the lion’s share of profits upward, into the pockets of a wealthy elite class, at the expense of the masses of working people who generate those profits through their[…]

The Plot to Kill Venezuela

June 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Hybrid Warfare, Venezuela

by Vijay Prashad, Published on Salon.com, May 17, 2019 This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Hugo Chávez knew that Venezuela was very vulnerable. Its oil revenues account for 98 percent of its export earnings. Chávez was familiar with the thinking of Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, Venezuela’s minister of mines and hydrocarbons in the[…]

U.S. Sanctions on Venezuela Illegal under UN and OAS Charters, and US Laws

June 10, 2019 UNAC Editor Imperial Wars, International Law, Venezuela

Add Newby Editorial Staff, Countercurrents, June 7, 2019 Sanctions imperialism has imposed on Venezuela are illegal. The UN and Organization of American States (OAS) charters, and U.S. laws find this illegal action. Media reports said: The unilateral economic sanctions is an explicit violation of international law protected under the UN, OAS charters, human rights stipulations, and even U.S. law. Despite[…]

Venezuela Denounces Siege to its US Embassy in Violation of the Vienna Convention

May 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Statement, Venezuela

Venezuelan Ambassador Samual Moncada and Tighe Berry of CodePink held a Press Conference at the United Nations on May 16, 2019 The ambassador of Venezuela to the United Nations ( UN ), Samuel Moncada, denounced on Wednesday from the headquarters of the agency in New York, United States ( USA ), the continuing violation of the Vienna Convention governing diplomatic[…]

Distorting ‘Democracy’ in Venezuela Coverage

May 25, 2019 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Hybrid Warfare, Venezuela

Featured image: Depiction of Juan Guaidó in The Atlantic (5/1/19). (photo: Fernando Llano/AP) by Gregory Shupak, published on Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, May 20, 2019 – Writing of the failed US-sponsored coup attempt in Venezuela on April 30, Uri Friedman of The Atlantic (5/1/19) referred to the Venezuelan branch of the coup as Juan “Guaidó’s pro-democracy movement.” The logical[…]

Venezuela – A Risk to Dollar Hegemony – Key Purpose Behind “Regime Change”

May 21, 2019 UNAC Editor Socio-Economic Struggles, Soft Power Imperialism, Venezuela

by Peter Koenig, Published on Countercurrents, May 9, 2019 After the new coup attempt – or propaganda coup – Venezuela lives in a state of foreign imposed insecurity. The failed coup was executed on 30 April by Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed and Washington-trained and endorsed “interim President”, and the opposition leader, Leopoldo López, who was hurriedly freed from house arrest[…]