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Latest Venezuela
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Emersberger: Trump Sanctions Have Killed Thousands of Venezuelans
The study is the clearest evidence of the devastating impact US policy is having on the people of Venezuela
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Vargas: New Socialist Communities
A powerful social movement to reclaim urban space also has ideas about how to overcome the crisis in Venezuela
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Venezuela’s cities have given birth to a powerful social movement aimed at fighting capitalism on a territorial level
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Vaz: Venezuela: Demanding Housing Self-Management
Popular movements want to build half of the houses planned by the national Housing Mission
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Emersberger: Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried by Reuters
Even worse than being the “resistance” to Maduro is that Reuters has often made itself the “assistance” to politicians like Rubio, who are vicious enough to celebrate the economic strangulation of millions of people
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Ellner: Explanations for the Current Crisis in Venezuela
Debunking the myth (systematically promoted by Washington) that the Venezuelan “crisis” preceded the implementation of U.S. sanctions and thus the Maduro government alone is to blame for the current catastrophe
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Zeese: Uniting To Protect Venezuela And Stop The US War Machine
The attack on the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC was part of a coordinated strategy of attacking Venezuelan embassies in other countries including Chile and Argentina
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Leet: Washington Doubles Down on its Military Intervention Script in Venezuela
Since the Venezuelan opposition again failed to oust Maduro, extreme elements in Caracas and Washington are increasingly agitating for U.S. military intervention
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Grajales: Building Socialism from Below
Chavez’s socialist project lives on as an array of self-organized initiatives
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Engler: Why is Ottawa aligning itself with Venezuela’s most anti-democratic elements?
Venezuelans require a vibrant opposition that challenges the government. They don’t need Canada to boost an electorally marginal party that drives the country into increasing conflict
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Koerner: Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press
The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity...
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Jaua: Defending Chavez’s Project Today
Can anybody in their right mind think that the private sector can save us right now, the very sector that failed to develop our economy for decades and decades?
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It was 7 AM April 30th in Caracas when I awoke to hear gun shots outside my hotel. Our group, seven US citizens and one Canadian, had been in here since April 27 attending a housing conference and looked forward to the next day’s May Day celebration
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Cohn: US Illegally Evicts Protectors From Venezuelan Embassy
On May 16, law enforcement agents broke into the Venezuelan...
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Pine: Academic Arrested for Protecting the Venezuela Embassy
As a scholar and educator, there are times when standard tools of teaching, publishing, and public speaking aren't enough. There are times when we need to put our bodies on the line
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Zeese: Showdown at the Venezuelan Embassy
Federal Authorities Back Down After Threatening to Evict Peace Activists Inside
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Prashad: The Plot to Kill Venezuela
And who is caught between an economy reliant on oil revenues and a sanctions regime designed to create suffering? The people caught in the squeeze of factors beyond their control
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Fuentes: Venezuela’s crisis: A view from the communes
Former president Hugo Chavez viewed the communes as the fundamental building blocks of a new communal state based on self-management and participatory democracy
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Cloughley: Washington’s Dogs of War Are Snarling at Iran and Venezuela
Trump, Bolton, Pompeo and their uniformed puppets are confronting, taunting and goading Iran in the hope that its government will react military, whereupon Washington will rejoice and let loose the dogs of war
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Koehler: What’s Next: War with Veneuela?
With our trillion dollar military budget, threatening (and waging) war is pretty much the only thing we know how to do as a nation
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Cohn: Trump’s “Troika of Tyranny” Meddles in Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua
Under the guise of protecting human rights, the Trump administration...
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Sachs: U.S. Sanctions Have Devastated Venezuela
More than 40,000 people have died in Venezuela since 2017 as a result of U.S. sanctions, according to a new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Vaz: Venezuelan Military Putsch Defeated
Opposition protesters clashed with security forces while government supporters swiftly mobilized to defend the presidential palace
Venezuela Video
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Wilpert: The Origins of Venezuela’s Economic Crisis
Venezuela has become a popular argument against socialism amongst conservatives because of the deep economic crisis it is currently traversing
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Bastani: The Coup in Venezuela, Explained
Sanctions and oil prices are to blame for the country's economic plight, while it boasts a far greater tradition of democracy than critics often realize let alone dare to admit
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Ellner: Trump Putting Venezuela on ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ List?
The Trump administration is actively exploring the option of placing Venezuela on the state sponsor of terrorism list, to further intensify sanctions that have already caused significant damage to Venezuela’s economy
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The siege-like conditions which Venezuela has been subjected to from both foreign interference and domestic opposition present a myriad of challenges for the country to move forward
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Wilpert: US Efforts to Sabotage Venezuelan Elections Intensify
Lucas Koerner is a journalist at Venezuelanalysis based in Caracas,...
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Weisbrot: Trump Renews Venezuela Sanctions
Trump renewed Obama's sanctions against Venezuela, declaring it an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the US, violating international law in the process
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Weisbrot: Venezuela’s New Economic Measures
The new measures can help alleviate some of Venezuela's economic problems, but do not address the heart of the problem, an inflation-depreciation spiral
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Weisbrot: New US Sanctions Against Venezuela
US sanctions against Venezuela, which VP Pence announced Wednesday, target Venezuelan debt and will make borrowing more expensive, hurting the people Trump claims to help
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Wilpert: Venezuelan Vote Count
The CEO of the company that sold and operates the voting machines in Venezuela says that there was a discrepancy of 1 million votes
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Martin: Opposition Violence at Venezuela Protests
Violent opposition protesters attempt to intimidate reporters
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Ellner: Constitutional Assembly a “Mixed Bag”
The Venezuelan government's call for a constitutional assembly is a positive step for breaking the political deadlock, but it still won't solve the country's most pressing problems
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Koerner: Massive Protests in Venezuela
While international media focused almost exclusively on the opposition protests and clashes with the police, the pro-government protests were equally as large
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Boothroyd Rojas: Why has Venezuela’s Supreme Court Assumed Legislative Power?
Discussion on the Venezuelan TSJ’s move to assume the legislative power of the AN
Venezuela Blogs
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Fitz: Health Care in a Global Environment
It is possible to provide health care much more cheaply...
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Read my review of this fine book here
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Bohmer: Support the Victory of Nicolas Maduro as President
It is really important and our responsibility that we demand...
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Bohmer: My Statement at Memorial for Hugo Chavez
Talk at Hugo Chávez Memorial Peter Bohmer, Olympia, Washington March...
Venezuela Interviews
A series of interviews about Venezuela, interviewer: Michael Albert
August, 2013
Minister of the Interior Rodriguez 1
Minister of the Interior Rodriguez 2
February 2013
Supreme Court Judge Vegas
Venezuela Analysis Pearson
Venezuela Analysis Wilpert
2008 but still highly relevant...
Supreme Court Judge Vegas
Women's Bank, Castenada
Carora Mayor Julio Chavez