(2020-10-06). Venezuelan gov't wins appeal on gold reserves held in the UK. peoplesdispatch.org The Venezuelan government secured a legal victory on Monday in its battle to regain access to gold stored in the Bank of England (BoE). | On Monday, the English Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) concerning the control over 31 tons of gold stored in London, overturning a previous High Court In July, Judge Nigel…
(2020-10-05). UK Court Decision on Venezuela Gold Deals Blow to Regime Change Efforts. mintpressnews.com A UK court ruled that the administration of Boris Johnson's position that Juan Guaidó is the legitimate ruler of Venezuela is far from equivocal, paving the way for over $1 billion of the country's gold to be released.
(2020-10-05). Revolutionary Organization In Venezuela. popularresistance.org Our latest joint production with Tatuy Televisión Comunistaria looks at five examples of revolutionary organization in Venezuela: El Maizal Commune, Pueblo a Pueblo, the Pobladoras Movement, Tinta Violeta and the Campesino Struggle Platform. | Amidst a tough crisis and a muderous blockade, these organizations (and many others) have doubled down in their efforts to resist and deepen the Bolivarian Revolution.
(2020-10-05). UK Court Rules Favorably For Returning Venezuela's Gold. popularresistance.org 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 July's High Court judgement, which had found that Britain's recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaidó as "constitutional interim president of Venezuela" was conclusive.
(2020-10-05). Venezuelan Gov't Wins Appeal on Gold Reserves Held in the UK. venezuelanalysis.com The English Court of Appeal overturned a ruling "unequivocally" recognizing opposition leader Guaido as the country's legitimate leader.
(2020-10-05). Venezuela Announces New Fuel Scheme as Iranian Gasoline Arrives. globalresearch.ca A second Iranian convoy of tankers is arriving in Venezuela this week with over 800,000 barrels of gasoline. | Forest, Faxon and Fortune ships will be discharging the fuel shipments in the El Palito and Paraguana refinery ports over the coming …
(2020-10-03). Do Canadian Sanctions Against Venezuela Violate Canadian Law? A Question of Democracy. globalresearch.ca "Sanctions must be treated as a form of warfare. . . . Let us regard the imposition of sanctions with the same gravity as we would regard the act of going to war." — Mehran Nakhjavani[1] | There is widespread …
(2020-10-03). UN report on Venezuela omits the greatest violation of human rights: US aggression. peoplesdispatch.org The victim's of Venezuela's right-wing mobs have been completely left out of the UNHRC's report on Venezuela, Leonardo Flores looks at the politicized nature of this report and the intentional omissions…
(2020-10-03). US deploys missile destroyer off coast of Venezuela. wsws.org The military provocation has come amid a wave of new sanctions against both Venezuela and Iran, which is supplying the South American country with vital fuel supplies.
(2020-10-03). UN Report On Venezuela Omits The Greatest Violation Of Human Rights. popularresistance.org On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela's oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an attempt by a UNHRC fact-finding mission to erase people who were "lynched, burned alive, decapitated and murdered by extremist sectors of the Venezuelan opposition." This fact-finding mission had published a report a week earlier that generated sensationalist headlines of "crimes against humanity" and painted a bleak picture of the situation in Venezuela.
(2020-10-02). Using Human Rights To Promote War. popularresistance.org Red Lines host Anya Parampil debunks a new report issued by the UN Human Right's Council which accuses Venezuela's government of "crimes against humanity". She points out major flaws in the report's methodology and exposes one of its authors as a defender of Chilean fascists. She explains that the US and its allies are weaponizing human right in order to drum up support for a war on Venezuela.
(2020-10-02). Thousands take the streets in national strike in Colombia. zcomm.org The nationwide protest was carried out in rejection police brutality, economic crisis, massacres and the indifference of the national government towards them…
(2020-10-02). UN Venezuela Report Omits US Human Rights Violations. mintpressnews.com On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela's oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an
(2020-10-02). Colombia Humana Activist Is Murdered in Medellin. telesurenglish.net The Colombia Humana movement activist Elias Galindo Thursday was found murdered in his apartment in Medellin. | RELATED: | Although an official version of the incident has not yet been released, the authorities' preliminary report states that Galindo was found by his daughter in one room of his apartment and presented stab wounds. | The attackers stole his computer and cell phone, which contained information about…
(2020-10-02). Venezuela Succeeds in Normalizing Fuel Supplies. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's government on Thursday said it has succeeded in "normalizing" the supply of fuel throughout the South American country, following weeks of severe shortages and disrupted distribution. | RELATED: | Starting Monday, the country's 1,568 gasoline service stations will be reactivated after production at two of the country's main refineries was restored, Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said. | "We are making a…
(2020-10-02). Venezuela Is 1st LATAM Country to Receive Russia's Vaccine. telesurenglish.net Venezuela's Vice President Delcy Rodriguez Friday announced that the country received the first batch of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and that the nation is ready to begin phase 3 of its clinical trials. | RELATED: | "Our country just became the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to join the studies for the first COVID-19 vaccine registered in the world," Rodriguez recalled. | The first batch…