Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy. In 1998, after a 34-year career with the United Nations—including as an Assistant Secretary-General and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq—he resigned when the UN ...
One might think that a supposedly innocent American citizen on trial for terrorism inside a hostile enemy country, facing decades behind bars in Venezuela’s notorious prisons, would spark a nationwide media furor. (By: Alan Macleod, ...
Tensions rise between neighboring Guyana and Venezuela over a piece of land that has been disputed since at least 1835. Both Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali and Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro have exchanged sharp words about the status of the ...
An interview with Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela. In September 2018, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro visited China, where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping and signed a series of important agreements on trade ...
On October 5, 2020, the England and Wales Court of Appeal overturned a lower court decision from July that denied the Venezuelan government access to 31 metric tons of its gold stored in the Bank of London. ...
Instead of continuing down this imperial path of endless confrontation, U.S. policymakers need to stop, recalibrate, and design an entirely new approach to inter-American relations. (Common Dreams) U.S. policy towards Venezuela has been a fiasco. ...
“Something will happen with Venezuela. That’s all I can tell you,” Trump said, before not-so-cryptically adding that Washington would be “very much involved.” (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) On a trip to COVID-19 riddled Florida ...
On January 9, 2020, Ambassador Karen Pierce—the United Kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations—spoke at a meeting on the UN Charter. “Nobody could accuse the founding members of a lack of ambition when they drafted the ...
Donald Trump claims he’s ending the “era of endless wars.” But over the course of his first term, he has come closer to starting new wars than ending the wars he inherited. (Jacobin) On June ...
Sixty percent of Venezuela’s COVID-19 cases are in its border states of Apure, Bolívar, Táchira, and Zulia. Roughly 70,000 Venezuelans who had moved to nearby countries of Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru (largely in response to ...
The first oil tanker that came from Iran’s Bandar Abbas port into the Caribbean is called Fortune. The tanker entered Venezuelan waters on May 24 and was then escorted by the Venezuelan Navy and Air Force ...
Why the Bouficha Appeal stands for the aspirations of people who want an end to militarized violence on earth. On March 15, 1950, the World Peace Council sent out the Stockholm Appeal, a short text ...
On April’s Fools Day, U.S. President Donald Trump gave a press conference where he announced a new “counter-narcotics effort” by U.S. Southern Command. “We’re deploying additional Navy destroyers, combat ships, aircrafts and helicopters, Coast Guard ...
The IMF refused a COVID–19 emergency loan to Venezuela unless it agreed to overthrow President Maduro and installs the Washington-backed Juan Guaidó. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Earlier this month, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
“The UN secretary-general’s comment that ceasefires are the call of the hour given the global pandemic should apply to the United States’ hybrid war against Venezuela. It needs to stop now.” In a press conference on March ...
“One would expect that a humanitarian crisis of this magnitude would provide the opportunity to suspend or end all inhumane economic sanctions and political blockades against certain countries.” Swiftly moves the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), dashing ...
Upon his return to Venezuela, Juan Guaido was greeted by an enraged mob hectoring, jeering and manhandling him, kicking his car and covering him in water and other liquids. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Self-declared ...
“Guaidó’s appearance may only be covered as a footnote in American media, but it illustrates Trump’s campaign strategy and the weakness within the Democratic party establishment in resisting American imperialism.” For many viewers, the most ...
The New York Times Editorial Board, it seems, rarely meets a coup backed by the US government that it doesn’t approve of. (By: Alan Macleod, Mintpress News) Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed ...
The left and right-wing struggle in Bolivia to hold onto power after the forced resignation of Bolivia’s longtime socialist leader Evo Morales reflects the growing divide across Latin America. The recent forced resignation of Bolivian ...
The Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the DC embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution. ...
Will there be room to start a conversation now about the divergence between IMF policy and democracy? Each year, the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gathers at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. This ...
Haiti, perhaps the country most affected by the energy crisis derived from the embargo against Venezuela, is being used as a launch point of the offensive against the government of Nicolás Maduro. (By Lautaro Rivara, ...
People and movements from across the world are standing in solidarity with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution after the latest imperialist offensive and demanding #NoMoreTrump. (Peoples Dispatch) Tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the ...
Dozens of social movements and organizations mobilized on Saturday to denounce the report presented by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet. (Peoples Dispatch) On July 13, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans took ...
Former UN special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas slams UN High Commissioner Bachelet’s report on Venezuela as a politicized collection of baseless accusations by “advocates of regime change.” (By Anya Parampil, The Grayzone Project) When United ...
Guaido’s representative in the US, Carlos Vecchio, is also being accused of fraud in CITGO worth US $70 million. (By Paul Dobson, Venezuela Analysis) Venezuelan authorities have opened a new criminal investigation against self-declared “Interim ...
To avoid another embarrassing defeat like Vietnam, the United States evolved its warfare strategy to include the battle for hearts and minds. On April 30, 1975, the United States learned an important lesson. The capture ...
“The talks have begun nicely to move toward agreements of peace, agreement, and harmony, and I ask for the support of all Venezuelan people to advance on the path of peace.” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ...
“It’s ironic that the US government attacked Venezuela’s electric grid, and now they’re attacking the embassy of Venezuela’s electricity.” (Peoples Dispatch) On the night of May 8, members of the Embassy Protection Collective reported that ...
“Attempts at a violent coup in Caracas have nothing to do with the democratic process and only frustrate prospects for political settlement of the crisis.” The political crisis in Venezuela has spread to its diplomatic ...
As Venezuela struggles through an economic and political crisis there is an inconvenient truth about the roots of the crises that is rarely talked about. So we delved deep, and we found a lot. In ...
Since January, Guaidó with support from his foreign allies has orchestrated several media charades in order to push the situation in Venezuela to a breaking point, hoping to force Nicolás Maduro to step down. (Peoples ...
Juan Guaido urged the military to join the “final phase” in Caracas on Tuesday morning and declared “the moment is now.” US-supported opposition leader Juan Guiadó initiated a full-fledged uprising against President Nicolás Maduro on ...
The latest sanctions are meant to limit Venezuela’s access to US dollars. (By Ricardo Vaz, Venezuela Analysis) The US Treasury Department has levied sanctions against the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) in a bid to ...
“The U.S. has long been treating Latin America as its backyard, where it would resort to willful use of pressure, threat or even subversion. People can tell right from wrong.” Last Sunday, China’s ambassador to ...
Venezuela experienced a nationwide blackout in March of 2019 which President Maduro attributed to sabotage. (By AlbaTV, translation by Resumen) The North American intelligence agencies and their government’s attention and monitoring of the electricity situation ...
GRAYZONE PROJECT EXCLUSIVE: Away from the public eye, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) think tank hosted a top-level, off-the-record meeting to explore US military options against Venezuela. (By Max Blumenthal, Grayzone Project) ...
“The World Bank will be deeply involved, and we are preparing for that, but the situation is still troublesome on the ground.” Both global lenders, the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ...
The US-funded CANVAS organization that trained Juan Guaido and his allies produced a 2010 memo on exploiting electricity outages and urged the opposition “to take advantage of the situation…towards their needs.” (By Max Blumenthal, Grayzone) ...
“Donald Trump is most responsible for the cyber attack on the Venezuelan electricity system.” As Venezuela struggles through the sixth day of a blackout that has affected as much as 70 percent of the country, ...
Authorities in Venezuela denounced cyber attacks on the central hydroelectric plant which left 70% of the country without electricity. (PeoplesDispatch) Electricity supply is being rapidly restored in Venezuela after three days of power failure in ...
Regional diplomacy is much slower than foreign intervention. But it avoids further bloodshed and reduces the role of anti-Americanism in Venezuela’s crisis. (By Joseph J. Gonzalez, Appalachian State University, The Conversation) Violence erupted at the Venezuela-Colombia ...
Around 450 delegates from 85 countries congregated in Caracas, to participate in a gathering of solidarity with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution. People from across the world have come to Caracas to join together as ...
In an exclusive interview with La Jornada, Maduro rejects that Venezuela is a dictatorship, that human rights are violated or that there is a humanitarian crisis. (Resumen Latinoamericano) In the worst crisis since assuming the ...
Why is the West sending humanitarian aid while simultaneously blocking Venezuela from accessing its own money? (Resumen Latinoamericano)The first trucks carrying the so-called humanitarian aid for Venezuela have arrived at the Colombian border city of ...
Before we get to the veracity of what Trump said or lack thereof, let’s first address what the man spoke about. Trump’s agenda, at least in principle, was devoted to the areas where members of ...
“Long live people’s power”, said Maduro, urging the people to continue fighting for their sovereignty. (Peoples Dispatch) On February 2, thousands of citizens and members of social movements and people’s organizations took part in a ...
Who is Juan Guaidó and how did he rise to the head of a movement to end Nicolas Maduro’s reign in Venezuela? Juan Guaidó, a relatively unheard of 35-year-old Venezuelan politician, has suddenly taken Venezuela and the ...
In the face of yet another blatant power grab led by the US and supported by right-wing forces in Latin America, the government and people of Venezuela mount a strong defense. (Peoples Dispatch) On January ...
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