Latest Venezuela

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  Cole: As Trump and Iran square off on Venezuela Oil Shipments, will US Go full Pirate of the Gulf?

  The purpose would be to ramp up US patriotism ahead of the November election and attempt to get the US public on Trump’s side as a war president
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  Flores: The Stage Is Set for a Venezuela October Surprise

  Senator Marco Rubio has been advising the Trump administration that military action against Venezuela would “ensure Florida’s Electoral College votes in November
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  Iqbal: Venezuela and Palestine: A Revolutionary Alliance

  If this Venezuelan opposition comes to power with the help of American imperialists, the current pro-Israel and rightward shift in the political dynamics of Latin America will get further consolidated
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  Ellner: The Juan Guaidó Strategy Has Proven to be a Fiasco

  Now What will Washington Do?
• Kunich: Alba TV’s New Model for Communication

  The coordinator of a media platform that works with social movements talks about the history and challenges of popular communication
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  Prashad: How the U.S. Failed at Its Foreign Policy Toward Venezuela

  Trump wants a war, but not an open war; the U.S. military knows that it might be able to flatten Caracas, but it would not be able to win a war against the Venezuelan people
• Dos Santos: Tales of Resistance: On the Road Again

  Reflections on the justice system and the importance of fighting to improve it
• Lebowitz: Popular protagonism in Venezuela’s transition to socialism

  Capitalism, which destroys human beings and nature, must be ended, but you can not build socialism without the protagonism by which people change themselves
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  Ellner: Trump’s Second Thoughts on Juan Guaido are Not Enough

  After the president’s change of heart on Venezuela, and the waning of Juan Guaidó and his party, the entire Washington political establishment have a lot of explaining to do
• Salas: Venezuela’s Economy Under Siege

  A polemical economist reflects on the government’s policies in the face of harsh sanctions, including its general tendency toward dollarization.
• Livingstone: The UK is trying to meddle in Latin America once more

  A look at British complicity in Trump’s regime change agenda
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  Koerner: WOLA: Media’s ‘Left’ Source for Pro-Coup Propaganda in Venezuela

  The US blockade is a naked expression of imperial might, which WOLA and other Western propaganda amplifiers hide behind empty rhetoric about “democracy” and “human rights.”
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  Prashad: Why Iran’s Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders Through Washington

  At the United Nations China has been outspoken against the regime change policy driven by the United States against both states. It has been this Chinese shield that enabled the tankers to go through what is effectively a U.S. naval blockade of Venezuela
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  Koerner: Trump Claims to Have Venezuela ‘Surrounded’ as Iranian Tankers Approach

  Venezuela’s armed forces will escort the vessels upon reaching territorial waters.
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  Hasan: The “Coup” Attempt in Venezuela Seems Ridiculous

  We do not know whether Trump and Co. were involved in the Goudreau-inspired attempted attack on Maduro. What we do know, though, is that they continue to try and starve and bully Venezuela into submission
• Doliner: The Venezuela Kerfuffle and the Secret Team

  This incident casts light on the apparently inevitable Keystone Cops flavor of CIA operations
• Jiménez: Mercenaries, pandemic and riots in Venezuela

  A grassroots perspective
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  Ellner: On The Latest Failed Attempt To Topple Nicolas Maduro

  To understand the workings of this latest botched Venezuelan regime-change scheme by a 60-man sea-borne assault group from Colombia, it’s necessary to take into account the fragmentation among Venezuelan opposition extremists
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  Cohn: Intensifying Sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, Trump Is Weaponizing Coronavirus

  As the entire world grapples with the most devastating pandemic of the modern era, the United States is pouring kerosene on the fire in Iran and Venezuela
• Garcia: Venezuela: Community organization key to fighting COVID-19

  Interview on how the communes are coping with the pandemic
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  Ellner: Politicians, media support lifting sanctions on Iran, but not Venezuela

  The United States has announced it is sending Navy ships to the Venezuelan coast, ostensibly to beef up counter-narcotics operations
• Marquina: A Caracas Commune Prepares for the Coronavirus Crisis

  Four Voices from the Altos de Lidice Communal Healthcare System
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  Ellner: Why The Mainstream Media Suggests Lifting Sanctions Against Iran While Not Saying Anything About Venezuela 


  No other country in the world is being subjected to the type of regime change strategy that the Trump administration is applying to Venezuela
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  Prashad: Trump Sends Gunnboats to Venezuela While World Partners to Fight Pandemic

  The indictment against Venezuelan officials is bizarre. There is no footprint for it in any DEA document that is available
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  Flores: Trump’s Narcoterrorism Indictment of Maduro Already Backfires

  The indictments are another brick in the foundation for a pretext for either a direct U.S. military invasion or a proxy war