Above Photo: President Joe Biden, left, with Juan S. Gonzalez, who headed the U.S. delegation to Venezuela in March, at right. Twitter. Now that Cold War II has set in, Steve Ellner says Caracas’ strategic alliance with Moscow has become a greater priority for Washington. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s repeated calls for dialogue with the U.S. in order to normalize relations seem to be paying off. His openness to rapprochement contrasts with the Biden administration’s nebulousness regarding the degree to which Washington is willing to recognize Maduro as president (full diplomatic recognition is out of the question). Biden’s use of sanctions as a […]
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Above Photo: On April 7, the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the delivery of 4 million homes to citizens as part of the Great Housing Mission of Venezuela (GMVV). Nicolás Maduro / Twitter The Great Housing Mission of Venezuela (GMVV), launched by Commander Hugo Chávez in 2011, provides decent homes to low-income families at a low cost or free of charge, depending on their income. On April 7, the socialist government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro celebrated the delivery of a record 4 million homes to its citizens as part of a social housing program called the Great Housing […]
Above Photo: A protest against US sanctions in Caracas, Venezuela in August 2019 (Benjamin Norton). Major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse forecasts Venezuela’s real GDP growth to be 20% in 2022 and 8% in 2023. This is despite an illegal US blockade, which starved the government of 99% of its revenue, according to the top UN expert on sanctions. The major Switzerland-based bank Credit Suisse has predicted that Venezuela’s real GDP growth will be 20% in 2022. The prominent Western financial institution also forecasted that Venezuela’s real GDP will increase by an additional 8% in 2023. These predictions come despite an illegal […]
US Judge Approves Venezuela’s CITGO Auction Process By Andreína Chávez Alava, Venezuela Analysis. March 6, 2022 US Judge Approves Venezuela’s CITGO Auction Process2022-03-062022-03-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220306-5.jpg200px200px Above Photo: The Delaware Court has ratified a sale procedure brought forward in September 2021 by Canadian miner Crystallex. AP. Any sale of CITGO shares is still pending authorization from the Biden administration. Guayaquil, Ecuador – A US judge greenlighted an auction procedure for Houston-based Venezuelan oil subsidiary CITGO. According to documents published by Law360, on Wednesday Judge Leonard Stark of the US Delaware District Court authorized a special master to conduct a marketing and sales process for a “contingent […]
So US Tries To Discredit Them. The United Socialist Party Of Venezuela (PSUV) Won The November 21 Mega-Elections In A Landslide, Getting More Votes In 20 Of 23 States And The Capital Caracas. So The US Government Responded By Trying To Discredit The Vote. Venezuelan Journalist Diego Sequera Speaks About The Elections, The Historic Victory Of The Ruling Party Of President Nicolás Maduro, And Washington’s Attempt To De-Legitimize The Process. Venezuela’s November 21 regional elections were monitored by the European Union. After years of boycotting previous votes, Venezuela’s right-wing opposition parties agreed to participate in these elections, through a series of […]
Socialist Alliance Victory In Venezuela’s National Assembly Is A Failure Of US Regime Change Policy December 9, 2020 Socialist Alliance Victory In Venezuela’s National Assembly Is A Failure Of US Regime Change Policy2020-12-092020-12-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/vzelection-e1607563003507.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela raise their hands with a clenched fist in a sign of victory on December 7, 2020 in Caracas, Venezuela. Getty Images / Leonardo Fernandez Viloria. The victory of Maduro’s political alliance in Sunday’s parliamentary election means that despite the Covid pandemic, economic hardships and sanctions by the US, Venezuelans voted for the continuation of the Chavista Revolution. A little […]
US Observers Endorse Venezuela’s Election Legitimacy December 9, 2020 US Observers Endorse Venezuela’s Election Legitimacy2020-12-092020-12-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/telesur.png200px200px Above photo: International observer tests a voting machine in Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 6, 2020. Twitter/ @AgenciaRPN. The elections are being monitored by 1,500 observers and 300 representatives from 34 countries. U.S. political actors observing Venezuela’s parliamentary elections Sunday ratified the process’ legitimacy, despite the U.S. administration’s attempts to discredit it. After visiting several voting centers in Caracas, New York Public University professor Danny Shaw highlighted the people’s massive turnout on Election Day. Taking part as an observer in these elections “has been an interesting experience. I […]
US Congress And Corporate Media Claim Venezuela’s Government Threatened To Starve Non-Voters By Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil, The Grayzone. December 7, 2020 US Congress And Corporate Media Claim Venezuela’s Government Threatened To Starve Non-Voters2020-12-072020-12-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/venezuela-diosdado-cabello-threat-food-starve-voters-e1607355882439.jpg200px200px Spun out by the US Congress and Wall Street Journal, the cynical deception is part of an assault on Venezuela’s legislative election, in which even opposition politicians were sanctioned for participating. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US corporate media declared Venezuela’s legislative elections a “sham” before results were even announced, opening a new front in the propaganda war on the besieged country and its leftist government. Among […]
Venezuela’s Legislative Elections By Carlos Ron, Valdai Club. December 6, 2020 Venezuela’s Legislative Elections2020-12-062020-12-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/vota-e1607246736947.jpg200px200px Above photo: Ariana Cubillos/AP. A Defiant Stand Against Neo-colonialism. Venezuela wins just by carrying out this election. The legislative process, stalled for years, will return to normal under a plural assembly that truly resembles the country’s current political landscape and positions itself in favour of self-determination and national sovereignty, writes Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and President of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples. Latin America has caught the world’s attention as it has become the electoral battleground between […]
UK Court Rules Favorably For Returning Venezuela’s Gold October 5, 2020 UK Court Rules Favorably For Returning Venezuela’s Gold2020-10-052020-10-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/gold-e1601929312750.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protestors demonstrate in February 2019 following a decision by the Bank of England to freeze assets held by Venezuela. Yahoo. London – A tug-of-war over $1 billion worth of Venezuelan gold stored at the Bank of England took a new turn on Monday as the English Court of Appeal overturned an earlier High Court ruling on who the UK recognised as Venezuela’s president. The Court of Appeal granted the Nicolas Maduro-backed Banco Central de Venezuela’s (BCV) appeal and set aside […]
Last week, Caracas accused the United States of being “the greatest threat to world peace and stability” after Washington slapped Venezuela with additional sanctions on senior government officials for doing business with Iran. The US and its allies have been attempting to overthrow Venezuela’s democratically-elected government since early 2018. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has blasted the Pentagon over its decision to sail a guided missile destroyer to his country’s coast. “Venezuela denounces the erratic and childish provocation by the US Southern Command to send the USS William P Lawrence (DDG-110) Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer to within 16.1 nautical miles […]
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Contraband fuel sits on the side of a road in Puerto Santander, Colombia, on May 31, 2019. The Venezuelan government’s lack of cash to import gasoline combined with U.S. sanctions targeting the oil sector have led to chronic fuel shortages in Venezuela. That has upended a long-running, lucrative contraband gas trade. Ivan Valencia/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ivan Valencia/Bloomberg via Getty Images Contraband fuel sits on the side of a road in Puerto Santander, Colombia, on May 31, 2019. The Venezuelan government’s lack of cash to import gasoline combined with U.S. sanctions targeting the oil sector have led […]
China Backs Venezuela’s Right To Safeguard Sovereignty September 7, 2020 China Backs Venezuela’s Right To Safeguard Sovereignty2020-09-072020-09-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/vzchina.jpg200px200px Above photo: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (L) greets the Chinese medical experts in Caracas, Venezuela, April 8, 2020. Venezuela’s Presidency. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that China and Venezuela share basically similar views on safeguarding their legitimate rights and interests, jointly supporting multilateralism, and improving global governance. China stands with the Venezuelan people in their fight against COVID-19 and upholds the Venezuelan government’s right to safeguard national sovereignty, and national dignity and development, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday. Wang […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107357/44/1073574411_0:26:1539:891_1200x674_80_0_0_92fdc3a02d4abaa7a4f7014a7cfeabc7.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202008311080331228-venezuelas-nicolas-maduro-issues-presidential-pardons-to-dozens-of-opposition-figures/ The Venezuelan government announced on Monday that President Nicolas Maduro had pardoned more than four dozen political figures in opposition parties. Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez announced on Monday that more than 50 opposition politicians had received pardons ahead of the December parliamentary elections, and assurances they would be able to participate. “We hope that all of these measures taken by the Bolivarian government help maintain the democratic focus of all of these political actors,” Rodriguez said in a press conference at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas. Many of those pardoned had been charged […]
A coalition of over two dozen parties, all backing opposition figurehead Juan Guaido, have announced they would not take part in the upcoming parliamentary vote in December, claiming any outcome is an “electoral fraud” by default. Although the election is to be held only in five month from now, on December 6, the block has already denounced it as fraudulent, arguing that the electoral system itself is unfair.The coalition at the same time rejected the notion that they are abstaining from the vote, arguing that it was “not an election” they have refused to participate in. The statement, which was signed […]
Washington is offering $5 million for the arrest of the presiding judge of Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice, accusing Maikel Moreno of accepting bribes in criminal cases and of being a “crony” of President Nicolas Maduro. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the bounty on Tuesday, saying that Moreno “used his position of authority for personal gain” and that his designation sends a clear message that the US “stands firmly against corruption.” Maikel Jose Moreno Perez, a Maduro crony, used his position of authority for personal gain, accepting bribes to influence the outcomes of criminal cases in Venezuela. In publicly […]
Relations between Brussels and Caracas deteriorated in late June, when President Nicolas Maduro ordered the expulsion of the EU’s envoy to Venezuela, Isabel Brilhante Pedrosa, in a move that came in response to the bloc expanding sanctions against the South American country. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has accused the EU of following the US path in terms of policy towards the Latin American nation. Referring to EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, Arreaza slammed Brussels’ position on Venezuela as “aggression” that runs counter to international law and diplomatic conventions. “When Borrell served as the Spanish […]
Venezuela’s National Electoral Council on Wednesday set December 6 as the date for parliamentary elections. The opposition coalition, led by Juan Guaido, Venezuela’s self-proclaimed president, does not recognize the government-aligned Supreme Court’s rulings and has said that it will boycott the vote. The Supreme Court in June appointed a new National Electoral Council (CNE) ahead of the vote to elect lawmakers to the National Assembly, US News reported. Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in January suggested that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres designate a commission of observers for parliamentary elections to take place in December, noting that he wants the international community to […]
What was a typical withdrawal request from a customer to a depository bank has turned into a political controversy, given that the government that owns the bank does not recognise the customer. London’s High Court is scheduled to hear an unprecedented case on Monday regarding Venezuela’s attempts to extract its gold bullion from the Bank of England. Venezuela’s central bank (BCV), controlled by the government of Nicolas Maduro, has around $1.8 billion worth of gold at the Bank of England. BCV has recently demanded that €930 million ($1.04bn) in gold be released to help Caracas fight the coronavirus outbreak. The heavily-sanctioned […]
The head of Venezuela’s cryptocurrency initiative, the petro, is wanted by the U.S government on charges of corruption and links to the narcotics trade. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) added Joselit Ramirez Camacho to its Most Wanted List on Monday, accusing him of a number of violations related to international commerce and his alleged involvement in the international drug trafficking scene. Ramirez Camacho is a public official and serves as the superintendent for Venezuela’s petro initiative, a cryptocurrency supposedly backed by the country’s oil and mineral reserves. The superintendent is wanted by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arm for violating the […]
The Frontlines Of Venezuela’s Fight Against COVID-19 By Cira Pascual Marquina, Venezuela Analysis. June 1, 2020 The Frontlines Of Venezuela’s Fight Against COVID-192020-06-012020-06-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/venezuelans-coming-back-to-vz-20202-from-venezuela-analysis-e1591033746750.jpg200px200px Above photo: Thousands of Venezuelans are returning to their homeland. Before going back to their home, they spend 20 days in isolation centers to prevent COVID-19 from spreading in the country. From Venezuela Analysis, Archive. Frontline health workers talk about the nation’s successful strategy to prevent the spread of the virus. Elizabeth Daza and Jose Mireles Alcala are medical students at the University of Health Sciences-Cuban Medical Mission. Daza, who is in her sixth year, studies and works with […]
Opposition leader Juan Guaido continues to deny any link to a failed armed incursion into Venezuela, despite his own allies handing over a lengthy contract to American media naming him as the commander of the operation. The oppo figurehead and self-declared “interim president” of Venezuela denied again on Friday that he had anything to do with the ill-fated mission, which by most accounts was set up by a Florida-based security company, Silvercorp USA, and its American CEO, Jordan Goudreau. “We reiterate once again that the interim government has no link, commitment or responsibility to Silvercorp or its actions, as well as […]
…from PressTV, Tehran [ Editor’s Note: This new video “confession” adds new pieces to the puzzle that makes the capture of Maduro a possible fantasy story. The size and quality of the force would never have been able to “attack the heavily fortified presidential compound”. Captured mercenary, Airian Berry, reveals in his video confession that the extrication airport was a military one six miles from the Presidential palace, which would also have been heavily guarded. So now we have a story that after these guys shot their way into the palace, through the presidential guard, and then back out again, they […]