Venezuela

Whitewashing Neoliberal Repression in Chile and Ecuador

November 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Austerity, Censorship and Propaganda

by Lucas Koerner, published on FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) October 23, 2019 Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, people are rising up against right-wing, US-backed governments and their neoliberal austerity policies. Currently in Chile, the government of billionaire Sebastian Piñera has deployed the army to crush nationwide demonstrations against inequality sparked by a subway fare hike. In Ecuador,[…]

Venezuela’s CITGO in Danger as Maduro Seeks Debt Renegotiation

October 8, 2019 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Venezuela

From Venezuelanalysis.com, October 2, 2019 Edited and with additional reporting by Lucas Koerner from Philadelphia. Caracas – A US court has ruled that Canadian mining giant Crystallex can move forward in seizing assets from Venezuelan oil subsidiary CITGO. The World Bank’s international arbitration tribunal awarded Crystallex US $1.4 billion in compensation for the 2008 nationalization of Las Cristinas gold mine[…]

Criminal Embargoes: Venezuela and Iran in the Crosshairs of Murderers Inc.

August 25, 2019 UNAC Editor American Exceptionalism, Economic Blockade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

By Peter Koenig, Published on Global Research, August 10, 2019 Imagine just for a moment, the World would stand up in unison, sick and tired of the aggressive killer arrogance of the United States and her vassals – and their joint war-force called NATO – and this World, our World, what’s left of it when you deduct Washington and its[…]

Protest and Corporate Media

August 23, 2019 UNAC Editor Propaganda, Protest

by Margaret Kimberley, Published on Black Agenda Report, August 21, 2019 The corporate media are steadfast partners with the United States government and faithfully follow the party line on foreign policy issues. “The networks and the newspapers can seldom be believed.” Corporate media always let us know who is in with the in-crowd and who is on the outs with[…]

Trump Seizes Venezuelan Assets in U.S.

August 22, 2019 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

By Marco Teruggi, posted on Workers World, August 13, 2019 First published in página12.org.ar on Aug. 7. Translation by Michael Otto. President Donald Trump has taken a new step to strangle Venezuela: He signed an executive order Aug. 5 to freeze Venezuelan assets in the United States. “All assets and interests of the Venezuelan government that are in the U.S.[…]

The World Is Uniting For International Law, Against US Empire

August 17, 2019 UNAC Editor Featured, International Law

by Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, published on Popular Resistance, August 11, 2019 “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.“ That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies[…]

Sanctions Kill: Economic Warfare and the Migration Crisis (Video)

August 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Sara Flounders published on the Peace Report Station on Youtube, July 25, 2019 Sara gives an excellent lecture on the recent history, the political and economic components of international sanction and the context of modern siege warfare. Sara Flounders is an American political writer who has been active in ‘progressive’ and anti-war organizing since the 1960s. Sara is Co-Director[…]

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[…]

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[…]