Monthly Archives: December 2023

2023-12-21: News Headlines

Gloria La Riva (2023-12-21). Victory for Venezuela: Alex Saab is free! liberationnews.org Washington wanted to set an example with Saab and punish him, his family and the Venezuelan people for daring to resist the U.S. sanctions. Congratulations, Alex Saab. You are right, Venezuela won this battle.

José Luis Granados Ceja, Venezuelanalysis. (2023-12-21). Venezuela Secures Release Of Government Envoy Alex Saab. popularresistance.org Venezuela successfully negotiated the release of Alex Saab, a government envoy who spent more than three years detained. | Saab landed in Caracas on Wednesday afternoon and was greeted by his family and Venezuelan government officials. His release comes as a result of a negotiation between the Nicolás Maduro government and the Joe Biden administration that will see the release of up to 36 people, 10 of them US citizens, currently detained in Venezuela. | The Maduro government envoy was arrested during a refueling stopover in Cape Verde in June 2020 on his way to Iran to negotiate food and fuel import deals amidst…

Peoples Dispatch (2023-12-21). US releases detained Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. peoplesdispatch.org Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who has been unjustly imprisoned in the United States since October 2021, was finally released from US custody on December 20. Saab was detained in Cape Verde a year after being Saab was sanctioned amid intensified US attacks against Venezuela, which was attempting to…

Staff (2023-12-21). Venezuela Brings Home Alex Saab in Exchange for Releasing Convicted US Mercenaries. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( According to

Roger D. Harris (2023-12-21). How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded. dissidentvoice.org Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as "a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy." The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington's illegal economic coercive measures, also known as sanctions. Negotiated prisoner exchange In …

Katrien Demuynck (2023-12-21). A Bolivarian specter haunts the Monroe Doctrine. peoplesdispatch.org December 2, 2023 marked 200 years since US President James Monroe's famous words to Congress: "America for the Americans". To remember that anniversary, the Network in Defense of Humanity (REDH) organized an international forum "Bolivar versus Monroe, against imperialism, fascism and neocolonialism, within the framework of 200 years of anti-imperialism", in Caracas, Venezuela, from November 30 to December 2, 2023. | Over the three days of the conference, intellectuals and politicians from all over the continent spoke about the legacy of the Monroe Doctrine today and the ongoing struggle against US imperialism. Ma…

teleSUR, JDO, YSM (2023-12-21). Gobierno venezolano anuncia liberación de diplomático Alex Saab. telesurtv.net Ya se encuentra en Venezuela. Su extradición a EE.UU. fue denunciada como un secuestro, con la complicidad de las entonces autoridades de Cabo Verde.

teleSUR, MER (2023-12-21). Presidente venezolano recibe al diplomático Alex Saab tras su liberación. telesurtv.net El Gobierno venezolano confirmó la liberación del diplomático Alex Saab mediante un comunicado.

venezuelanalysis.com (2023-12-20). Venezuela Secures Release of Gov't Envoy Alex SaabThe Venezuelan government and Saab's defense lawyers have maintained that he was acting as a special envoy and therefore was subject to diplomatic immunity. Caracas viewed the detention of Saab as a violation of international law, tantamount to a "kidnapping" and his persecution as a politically motivated trial. Saab maintained his innocence and pleaded not guilty to charges of money laundering.

kwjorinoco (2023-12-20). President Maduro: There Must Be Justice for Palestinian People. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stressed that the Palestinian people deserve justice. He labeled as "monstrous" the massacre suffered by Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli occupation in Gaza and denounced it as "an uncontrolled genocide." | "Humanity has to always remember who the criminals were, what crimes they committed, and sooner rather than later there must be justice," he stated on Monday, December 18, during the 30th episode of his TV program Con Maduro+. | President Maduro added that more than 7,000 children have been victims of the Israeli bombardment throughout the Gaza Strip. "This i…

krish-rad_ind (2023-12-20). Venezuela's Foreign Minister: Canada's Interference in Essequibo Dialogue is Hostile (+UK). orinocotribune.com

A.J. Manuzzi (2023-12-20). Venezuela, Guyana: The shocking war that wasn't. responsiblestatecraft.org

On December 4, Venezuelan voters

Gabriel Aguirre (2023-12-20). Una Ofrenda Por la Paz. worldbeyondwar.org Por Juan Pablo Lazo, World BEYOND War, December 20, 2023 | La escuela de cuidadores de vida, que se nutre e inspira de las enseñanzas originarias Koguis de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, organiza un encuentro al que ha invitado a líderes de con un camino de Paz de toda América. Entre ellos, ha pedido a Juan Pablo Lazo coordinador de World Beyond War de la bioregión del Aconcagua para que facilite el momento participativo. | Se invita a la comunidad hispanoparlante a sumarse a cocrear en la comprensión que la acvtividad tendrá un momento de grupos pequeños donde todos tendrán oportunidad de expresar…

teleSUR, MER, JGN (2023-12-21). Celebran liberación del diplomático venezolano Alex Saab. telesurtv.net El Gobierno venezolano destacó la victoria de la verdad y la dignidad del país suramericano, a propósito de la liberación del diplomático Alex Saab.

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2023-12-20: News Headlines

kwjorinoco (2023-12-20). President Maduro: There Must Be Justice for Palestinian People. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, stressed that the Palestinian people deserve justice. He labeled as "monstrous" the massacre suffered by Palestinians at the hands of the Israeli occupation in Gaza and denounced it as "an uncontrolled genocide." | "Humanity has to always remember who the criminals were, what crimes they committed, and sooner rather than later there must be justice," he stated on Monday, December 18, during the 30th episode of his TV program Con Maduro+. | President Maduro added that more than 7,000 children have been victims of the Israeli bombardment throughout the Gaza Strip. "This i…

krish-rad_ind (2023-12-20). Venezuela's Foreign Minister: Canada's Interference in Essequibo Dialogue is Hostile (+UK). orinocotribune.com

Francisco Dominguez, Morning Star. (2023-12-19). Guyana-Venezuela Dispute: The Background And Opposing War. popularresistance.org If there were any misgivings about the actions undertaken by the government of Venezuela around the territorial dispute with Guyana, the joint military exercises between Guyana Defence Forces (GDF) and the US Southern Command (SouthCom) explain what really lies behind things. | Venezuela's claimed territory, also known as Guayana Esequiba, is 159,500 square kilometres west of the river of the same name. SouthCom (the Pentagon) never intervenes in territorial disputes, unless the territory in question contains resources of geopolitical importance for US imperialism.

Staff (2023-12-19). Venezuela's Foreign Minister: Canada's Interference in Essequibo Dialogue is Hostile (+UK). orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Foreign Minister Yván Gil spoke out to condemn the interference of the government of Canada in the country's internal affairs; in particular, in the border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo territory. | Gil responded this Monday, December 18, via social media, to his Canadian counterpart Mélanie Joly, and noted that Canada's intervention in the territorial dispute is hostile and a provocation. In addition, Gil noted that the Essequibo dispute is not Canada's concern. | Likewise, he warned that the peaceful route defined by the 1966 Geneva Agreement would not be altered, which is…

teleSUR, MER (2023-12-19). Presidente venezolano: tuvimos un gran triunfo de la diplomacia para la paz. telesurtv.net El mandatario destacó que han puesto el tema del Esequibo en el primer lugar de la prioridad para que Venezuela recupere sus derechos históricos.

Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. (2023-12-19). Year 2023 In Review For Latin American And The Caribbean. popularresistance.org December 2 marked the 200th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine, which proclaimed US dominion over Latin America and the Caribbean. Left-leaning governments in the hemisphere have had to contest a decadent but still dominant USA. Challenges in the past year include a world economic slowdown, a continuing drug plague, and a more aggressive hegemon reacting to a more volatile and disputed world order. | The progressive regional current, the so-called Pink Tide, slackened in 2023 compared to the rising tide of 2022, which had been buoyed by big wins in Colombia and Brazil.

teleSUR, dcdc, JCM (2023-12-19). Denuncian nuevo asesinato de líder social en el Cauca, Colombia. telesurtv.net El Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC) denunciÓ que todos los anuncios de los diálogos de paz no se han materializado en los territorios.

teleSUR, MS (2023-12-19). Ejecutaron a un líder social en Colombia, van 183 asesinados. telesurtv.net El líder social asesinado fue identificado como Carlos Alberto Romero Martínez, quien había denunciado varias amenazas de muerte en su contra.

teleSUR, lvm, YSM (2023-12-19). Denuncian dos masacres en un día en Caldas y Antioquia, Colombia. telesurtv.net La Defensoría del Pueblo "advierte sobre el accionar armado de distintas estructuras orientado al control de economías ilegales como el microtráfico".

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