2020-04-09: Social Media Postees

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U.S. activates new phase of violence against Venezuela
| workers.org | 2020-04-09
The U.S accuses Venezuelan President Maduro of "narcoterrorism" but the people defend him. The Platform of Venezuelan Social Movements Against the Blockade issued the following statement on March 26. To the People of the World and Friends of the Bolivarian Revolution In the midst of the most recent attacks of . . . | Continue reading U.S. activates new phase of violence against Venezuela at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/04/47585/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=u-s-activates-new-phase-of-violence-against-venezuela

Venezuela Pres Maduro's Message to American people
repost | indybay.org | 2020-04-09
Oil rich Venezuela is again threatened with invasion, by Nazi Trump, with no opposition from any Democrat, sending an armada to Venezuela's shores, in the middle of a pandemic, under the obviously false pretext of drug-pushing, which the world knows Venezuela does not do. The democratically elected government of Nicolas Maduro has sent an open letter to the American people. See www.globalresearch.ca/letter-president-maduro-people-united-states/5708882
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/07/18832148.php

Colombia's VP breaks down in interview over business ties to narco
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-09
Colombia's vice-president broke down in tears on Wednesday during an interview over her businesses ties to a drug trafficker. In an interview with W Radio, VP Marta Lucia Ramirez (Conservative…
colombiareports.com/colombias-vp-breaks-down-in-interview-over-business-ties-to-narco/

Unlike the international community, Colombia has a plan for Venezuela's refugees
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-09
Without much support from the international community, Colombia's migration authority has begun taking care of refugees from Venezuela who have been hit hardest by the coronavirus crisis. How Migration is…
colombiareports.com/unlike-the-international-community-colombia-has-a-plan-for-venezuelas-refugees/

Colombia seeking $11B loan with IMF as coronavirus destroys budget
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-09
Colombia's Finance Minister Alberto Carrasquilla said Tuesday he had requested the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to extend a $11 billion loan to confront the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came days…
colombiareports.com/colombia-seeking-11b-loan-with-imf-as-coronavirus-destroys-budget/

Colombia's great coronavirus heist: Part 1 | Let the robbing begin
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-09
Colombia's comptroller general said Wednesday that watchdog entities found evidence that $20 million (COP80 billion) meant to confront the coronavirus pandemic have been embezzled. In an interview with RCN Radio,…
colombiareports.com/colombias-great-coronavirus-heist-part-1-let-the-robbing-begin/

Adolf Trump goes for Venezuela: A jump into nothingness?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-04-09
In the midst of a desolate scenario, when the United States has become the country with the highest number of those infected by the Coronavirus, President Donald Trump and his team of serial criminals like Elliott Abrams, Cuban-American Mauricio Claver-Carone, Marco Rubio and others, announced that their country and 22 other nations would launch a …
mronline.org/2020/04/09/adolf-trump-goes-for-venezuela-a-jump-into-nothingness/

European Left Slams EU Support for Trump's Venezuela 'Transition' Plan
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-08
The European Union took "positive note" of Washington's initiative.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14839

Open Letter to Condemn Trump Administration's Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and High-Ranking Venezuelan Officials
Stansfield Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-08
We, the undersigned organizations and prominent individuals, condemn the false claims of criminal charges by the US government against the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other high-ranking officials with the pretext of their alleged involvement in international drug trafficking. The US government is offering a $15 million bounty for information that would …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/open-letter-to-condemn-trump-administrations-hypocritical-indictment-on-drug-charges-of-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-and-high-ranking-venezuelan-officials/

Open Letter to Condemn Trump Administration's Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and High-Ranking Venezuelan Officials
Alliance for Global Justice | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
We, the undersigned organizations and prominent individuals, condemn the false claims of criminal charges by the US government against the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other high-ranking officials with the pretext of their alleged involvement in international …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-condemn-trump-administration-drug-charges-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-high-ranking-venezuelan-officials/5709043

Open Letter to Condemn Trump Administration's Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and High-Ranking Venezuelan Officials
Alliance for Global Justice | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-08
We, the undersigned organizations and prominent individuals, condemn the false claims of criminal charges by the US government against the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and other high-ranking officials with the pretext of their alleged involvement in international …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-condemn-trump-administration-drug-charges-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-high-ranking-venezuelan-officials/5709043

Venezuela Receives Humanitarian Aid From UN, WHO, Russia
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-08
Venezuela received Wednesday about 90 tons of humanitarian aid from the United Nations, World Health Organization, PanAmerican Health Organization, and Russia. | RELATED: | Nearly 60 Groups Demand End to Sanctions During COVID-19 Crisis | "On behalf of President Nicolas Maduro, we thank the United Nations, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Russian Federation led by Ambassador Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov, who has strengthened bilateral relations, for this hum…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Receives-Humanitarian-Aid-From-UN-WHO-Russia-20200408-0020.html

Colombia Partakes in US-Led Military Operation in the Caribbean
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-08
Colombia's President Ivan Duque Tuesday confirmed that his country partakes in the International Naval Campaign Orion V, an operation which easily could become the prelude to a military aggression against Venezuelan people and its President Nicolas Maduro. | RELATED: | Intellectuals, Artists Issue Letter in Defense of Venezuela | "It is the world's biggest…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Partakes-in-US-Led-Military-Operation-in-the-Caribbean-20200408-0009.html

Colombia's hospitals unprepared for coronavirus, personnel working under threat: federation
Adriaan Alsema | colombiareports.com | 2020-04-08
Colombia's hospitals are grossly unprepared to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Medical personnel who have wanted to expose this have been threatened or fired, according to the country's medical federation….
colombiareports.com/colombias-hospitals-unprepared-for-coronavirus-personnel-working-under-threat-federation/

Amid Plague, Sanctions are Genocide
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-04-08
Sanctions have long been indefensible; now in the time of Covid-19, more so than ever. Nor are they some minor phenomena. Over a quarter of humanity lives under U.S. economic sanctions. That means millions of people lack untroubled access to food and medicines during a lethal pestilence. Thus in Iran, where the government fears millions of deaths from Covid-19, sanctions amount to genocide. Under ordinary circumstances, these embargoes are economic warfare. By putting Iran and Venezuela under economic siege even before the pandemic, the U.S. had murdered tens of thousands of those countries' citizens. Yet most Am…
counterpunch.org/2020/04/08/amid-plague-sanctions-are-genocide/

Billionaire-backed Human Rights Watch lobbies for lethal US sanctions on leftist governments as Covid crisis rages
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-08
Regime change-hungry HRW is proudly taking credit for crushing new US sanctions on Nicaragua while pushing to escalate Washington's economic…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/08/billionaire-human-rights-watch-sanctions-nicaragua-venezuela/

Venezuela Registers a Single New Case for COVID-19 in 24 Hours
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-07
In Venezuela, only a single positive case of COVID-19 was registered in the last 24 hours to increase the number of infections to 166. | The announcement was made by the Executive Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, during an expanded meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Control and Prevention of the coronavirus, where she met with the President Nicolás Maduro. | RELATED: | Intellectuals, Artists Issue Letter in Defense of Venezuela | Rodríguez explained th…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Registers-a-Single-New-Case-for-COVID-19-in-24-Hours-20200407-0020.html

In Response to President Maduro's Letter to the People of the United States
TNIDHUC | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-04-07
The Network in Defense of Humanity, US Chapter, expresses our heartfelt solidarity with the people of Venezuela and its only legitimate President Nicolas Maduro Moros in this hour of danger. The US administration is creating more conflict and aggression against Venezuela, while people all over the world are fighting a dangerous virus pandemic. Two weeks …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/04/in-response-to-president-maduros-letter-to-the-people-of-the-united-states/

Trump Should Fight COVID-19, Not Venezuela
Leonardo Flores | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-07
Trump has been threatening military action against Venezuela since August 2017 and a naval blockade since August 2019. The recent deployment of the Navy towards Venezuela is the first step in backing up both threats.
mintpressnews.com/trump-should-fight-covid-19-not-venezuela/266427/

President Maduro's Message to the People of the US
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-06
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to the people of the US. The Trump administration is escalating attempts to bring down President Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution, making bogus charges against Maduro and other officials. The Trump administration also published a plan that would radically alter the Venezuelan government's branches of power. This is to prepare for yet another coup attempt by the U.S. in support of unelected scoundrels. This past week President Trump ordered a serious increase of US Naval ships patrolling Caribbean w…
fightbacknews.org/2020/4/6/president-maduro-s-message-people-us

Carta del Presidente Maduro al Pueblo de EE.UU
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-04-06
Lucha y Resiste está promoviendo una declaración del Presidente de Venezuela Nicolás Maduro al pueblo de los Estados Unidos. El administracion del Trump esta subiendo el nivel de atentados a derrotar el Presidente Maduro y La Revolucion Bolivariana por poniendo cargas de narco-terrorismo al Maduro y otros en el gobierno. El administración del Trump también publicó un plan a alterar el gobierno Venezolano para permitir la oposición de los elites que toman más poder. Eso es a preparar un otro atentado del golpe del estado por los EEUU en apoyo de los no elegidos bobolongos. La semana pasada el Presidente Trump orde…
fightbacknews.org/node/7975

Amid Sanctions and Military Mobilization, Maduro Pens Letter Urging Americans to Question Trump
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-04-06
"I wholeheartedly ask you not to allow your country to be dragged once again into another unending conflict, another Vietnam, another Iraq, but this time, closer to home."
mintpressnews.com/nicolas-maduro-letter-oppose-war-venezuela-coronavirus/266397/

Sanctioning the Way for COVID-19
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-04-06
MarketWatch See article on original site While the United States is fighting COVID-19 here at home, US sanctions against other governments are aiding the virus' spread abroad. They've already likely contributed to many unnecessary deaths in Iran, and Venezuela's experience with the pandemic may also be much more deadly due to these punitive measures. COVID-19 …
cepr.net/u-s-sanctions-in-a-time-of-coronavirus-are-morally-depraved-as-well-as-illegal-under-international-law/

Venezuela Braces for Migrant Return as Coronavirus Rattles Latin America
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-06
The Caribbean country's 159 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 7 deaths is considerably lower than its neighbours' tallies.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14835

Ex UN anti-narcotics chief & mob expert says US Treasury running 'mafia racket' against Venezuela
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-03
Pino Arlacchi, the former Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Prevention, says US is behaving…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/03/un-narcotics-mob-treasury-running-mafia-venezuela/

Message from Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to the people of the world
President Nicolás Maduro | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-03
No imperialist aggression, however ferocious it may be, will divert us from the sovereign and independent path that we have forged for 200 years, nor will it distance us from the sacred obligation to preserve the life and health of our people in the face of the frightening global pandemic of COVID-19.
liberationnews.org/message-from-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-to-the-people-of-the-world/

The $15 Million Bounty On Maduro Is One More Attempt To Unseat Him
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-04-03
The US says Maduro collaborated with the FARC to "flood the US with cocaine." It's an additional legal pressure to get Venezuela's president to step down.
therealnews.com/stories/15-million-maduro-venezuela-cocaine-drug-trafficking-arrest-attorney-general

Carta a los Pueblos del Mundo de Presidente Nicolás Maduro
Presidente Nicolás Maduro | liberationnews.org | 2020-04-03
"Aprovecho esta oportunidad, para expresar mi solidaridad y la del Pueblo de Venezuela hacia todos los Pueblos que hoy también sufren graves consecuencias por los efectos de la pandemia."
liberationnews.org/carta-a-los-pueblos-del-mundo-de-presidente-nicolas-maduro/

US Sends Navy Ships to Caribbean in 'Anti-Drug' Mission Targeting Venezuela
Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-04-02
Venezuela denounced an attack on one of its naval vessels in recent days.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14832

Pompeo's 'transition' plan tells Venezuela to suffer into submission
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-04-01
Declaring that "Nicolas Maduro will never again govern Venezuela," Mike Pompeo unveils a so-called "transition" plan that tells Venezuelans to…
thegrayzone.com/2020/04/01/pompeos-transition-plan-tells-venezuela-to-suffer-into-submission/

Brazil's ex-President Lula on Venezuela: Maduro is democratic, Guaidó should be in prison, US blockade kills civilians
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-03-31
In comments ignored by English-language media, Lula da Silva slammed the US coup attempt against Venezuela, calling Nicolás Maduro a…
thegrayzone.com/2020/03/30/brazil-lula-maduro-guaido-us-blockade/

Venezuela Blasts US 'Transition' Plan as 'Tutelage'
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-31
Washington has threatened to "increase" crippling sanctions until Caracas accepts the deal.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14830

Rosneft Dodges US Sanctions by Transferring Venezuela Operations to Russian State Firm
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-30
Moscow insists that its support for the Venezuelan government and role in its oil industry will remain unchanged.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14829

Former Venezuelan General Hands Himself over to US Authorities
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-29
Cliver Alcala had recently confessed to plotting a coup against the Venezuelan government.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14827

[UPDATED] Venezuela Registers First Coronavirus Deaths
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-27
There are 113 diagnosed cases as of Friday evening.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14826

Venezuelan movements warn of U.S. coup danger
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-03-27
The Platform of Venezuelan Social Movements Against the Blockade has issued the following statement to the people of the world.
liberationnews.org/venezuelan-movements-warn-of-u-s-coup-danger/

Venezuela Dismisses US Justice Department 'Narco-terrorism' Accusations
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-26
Cliver Alcala, also indicted, confessed to organizing a coup plot against the Maduro government.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14825

UN, EU Urge Venezuela Sanctions Relief as Coronavirus Outbreak Intensifies
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-25
The South American nation has 91 reported COVID-19 cases so far.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14823

Venezuela Suspends Rent Payments, Protects Wages as Coronavirus Cases Rise to 77
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-23
The economic measures come as the country enters its seventh day of national lockdown.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14819

IMF Rejects Venezuela Emergency Fund Appeal
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-18
The Maduro government asked for a $5 billion loan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14817

[UPDATED] Venezuela Imposes Nationwide Lockdown to Combat Coronavirus
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-17
The rising number of cases has forced a full quarantine across the country.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14813

No, Venezuela does not have a six child per family policy
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-03-13
I respect UK journalist Andrew Buncombe. As I noted for FAIR last year, he was one of the few corporate journalists who reported on a study linking Trump's financial sanctions on Venezuela to thousands of deaths by the end of 2018. Since 2018, Trump has repeatedly intensified the sanctions and threatened Venezuela with military action, Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/no-venezuela-does-not-have-a-six-child-per-family-policy/

[UPDATED] Venezuela Confirms Coronavirus Cases as US Slaps New Sanctions
Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-12
The Venezuelan president denounced the difficulties caused by US sanctions in tackling coronavirus.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14811

Venezuela Oil Output Steadies as Prices Tumble
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-11
Sanctions and a fall in oil prices could threaten Venezuela's main source of foreign currency.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14809

Venezuela: Nearly 50,000 Voting Machines Burnt in 'Terrorist Attack'
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-03-09
An unknown hard-right militant group has claimed responsibility for the fire which destroyed 99 percent of the country's automated machines.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14807