Monthly Archives: December 2024

2024-12-12: News Headlines

Human Rights Watch (2024-12-12). Venezuela: Reveal Whereabouts of Disappeared Woman. hrw.org Click to expand Image | Relatives of detainees outside the Tocuyito jail to protest against the arrests of those demonstrating against the announced presidential election results, Pocaterra, Venezuela, August 26, 2024. | © 2024 Jacinto Oliveros/AP Photo…

Alan MacLeod, MintPress News. (2024-12-12). With Trump's Re-Election, A Venezuela Invasion Could Be In The Cards. popularresistance.org The re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States has many in Venezuela extremely concerned. From assassinations, terror campaigns, sanctions and coups, the first Trump administration tried everything short of a full-scale invasion of the country. With a cabinet full of hawks, MintPress assesses the potential for a future U.S. intervention in Venezuela. | According to insiders such as Defense Secretary Mark Esper and National Security Advisor John Bolton, Trump was one of the loudest voices in the White House pushing for military intervention in the Caribbean nation. The president said that i…

W. T. Whitney (2024-12-12). US Military Meddles in Venezuela-Guyana Dispute, on Behalf of Imperialism. counterpunch.org Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro warned recently that "the Southern Command is provoking our region …[as it] tries to set up U.S. military bases in our Essequibo Guyana." Venezuelan diplomat José Silva Aponte earlier had observed that, "the United States is intent upon both countries arriving at confrontation." Dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo

Editor (2024-12-12). With Trump's Re-Election, A Venezuela Invasion Could Be on the Cards. scheerpost.com

nacla.org (2024-12-12). The Campus Rebellion for Palestine in Latin America and the Caribbean People also set up encampments on college campuses in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere to condemn the genocide while making connections between the situation in the occupied territories and the colonial and imperial violence they face in their own contexts.

Staff, Fight Back News!. (2024-12-12). Give The Gift Of Peace This Holiday! Free Simon Trinidad! popularresistance.org Known popularly as Simon Trinidad, he is a Colombian revolutionary and political prisoner of the U.S. held in the Supermax Prison in Florence, Colorado. The U.S. government extradited, held four trials, and now imprisons Trinidad under his birth name of Juvenal Ovidio Ricardo Palmera Pineda (BPO No. 27896-016). Simon Trinidad was a leader and peace negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC-EP). Prior to that, he spent his life organizing people for progressive causes and social change, including with the Patriotic Union (UP) political party.

Brant Roberts (2024-12-11). Maduro on Syria: Make No Mistake With Venezuela. orinocotribune.com On Monday, December 9th, from the Paseo Monumental de Los Próceres in front of a parade of 500 soldiers, Executive branch officials, and accredited diplomatic corps, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stressed that the troops led by Grand Marshal Antonio José de Sucre defeated the most powerful army on planet Earth, the Spanish, 200 years ago. | "With that great triumph, they forever sealed the victory of our continent's liberation from three centuries of ruthless and criminal colonialism. On a day like today 200 years ago, America's destiny was sealed, and that destiny marks us for now and forever. We are the p…

tvbrics (2024-12-11). Venezuela and Russia sign cooperation agreements. tvbrics.com Among them are documents in key areas such as technology, hydrocarbons, energy, aviation and information technology…

A A (2024-12-11). With Trump's re-election, a Venezuela invasion could be on the cards. strategic-culture.su The re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States has many in Venezuela extremely concerned. From assassinations, terror campaigns, sanctions and coups, the first Trump administration tried everything short of a full-scale invasion of the country. With a cabinet full of hawks, MintPress assesses the potential for a future U.S. intervention in Venezuela.

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2024-12-01: News Headlines

Misión Verdad, Orinoco Tribune. (2024-12-01). The Geopolitical Dimensions Of The US BOLIVAR Act. popularresistance.org Awaiting approval by the US Senate, the bipartisan bill titled "Banning Operations and Leases with the Illegitimate Venezuelan Authoritarian Regime Act," known by its forced acronym "BOLIVAR Act," represents a milestone in the institutionalization of illegal sanctions against Venezuela. | This law aims to—under a legislative and bipartisan framework—perpetuating the executive orders that have operated as the core of the economic and financial coercion policy against Venezuela over the past ten years. | Within the law, the definition of the term "person" as a legal object establishes an expansion of th…

Tomer Persico (2024-11-30). Israel vs. the Israeli people: The state was supposed to protect us. Instead, it turned on us. haaretz.com The idea of the democratic state sought to offer a fair alternative to the one-way connection between humans and God. But similar to Russia, Venezuela and Syria, the Israeli state has now also turned against its citizens…

scorinoco (2024-11-30). Palestinian Leader Leila Khaled at Solidarity Meet in Venezuela: Justice is on Our Side. orinocotribune.com Leila Khaled, a historical leader of the Palestinian resistance, stated that her people will not abandon their land, nor will they be expelled from their territory. On the contrary, Palestinians will remain steadfast, as justice is on the side of the Palestinian cause. | She made this statement during her speech at the International Conference in Solidarity with Palestine on Friday, November 29, at the Aquiles Nazoa Cultural House in Caracas, Venezuela. | At the event, attendees carried photos of the victims of the Zionist aggression against Gaza that has been taking place since October 7, 2023. | Khaled specifie…

scorinoco (2024-11-30). Venezuela Records Lowest October Inflation Since 2012. orinocotribune.com The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) reported in a press release that the inflation for October 2024 recorded a 4.0% increase compared to September, resulting from the month-to-month variation of the National Consumer Price Index (INPC). However, comparing this figure with the inflation rates in October of all years since the INPC was established in 2008, the October 2024 inflation is lower than that of October 2023 (5.9%) and the lowest since October 2012 (1.7%). | Graph showing October inflation rates in Venezuela from 2008-2024. Photo: BCV. | The BCV reported that in the last four years (2021-2024), significant…

Elsy Fors Garzon (2024-11-30). Venezuela achieves first place in World Robotics Olympiad. plenglish.com Caracas, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela today achieved first place in the Future Senior Innovators category at the World Robotics Olympiad Türkiye 2024, held in the province of Izmir, an official source reported.

Stephen Gibbs (2024-11-30). Venezuela's last glacier. america.cgtn.com Venezuela has become the first country in Latin America to lose all its glaciers. The final one was downgraded to an icefield earlier this year. The change, blamed on global warming, has altered the landscape markedly. | CGTN's Stephen Gibbs reports from the city of Merida.

Elsy Fors Garzon (2024-11-30). ALBA-TCP advances in regional tourism integration. plenglish.com Caracas, Nov 30 (Prensa Latina) The member states of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples' Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) advanced today in the promotion of regional integration in tourism.

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