(2024-10-20). Venezuela's VP Rodríguez: We Are Working to Reduce Exchange Rate Distortions. orinocotribune.com The vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, stated that President Maduro's administration is working to reduce the gap between the official exchange rate of the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) and the parallel rate with the dollar. | During a meeting with the Federation of Chambers and Associations of Commerce and Production (Fedecámaras) on Thursday, October 17, the vice president said, "This gap is currently an issue, and we are already working, with concrete measures and actions. It is time to perform a surgical operation to reduce this gap." | "This gap creates many distortions, and profiteers use it to…
(2024-10-19). Mutual Aid And Mosh Pits. popularresistance.org Chicago‚Äâ—‚ÄâOn the Fourth of July, a group of punks and appreciators gather around the canal on the South Side for a mutual aid benefit show. They're raising funds for Comedor Comunitario ("Community Dining Room"), a weekly Tuesday dinner run by Venezuelan migrants at a community church. | With keffiyehs and Palestinian flags throughout the space, curious holiday revelers watched from their passing boats as folks slammed to the bands Hide and Stress Positions, their lyrics decrying American settler-colonialism and nationalism in a defiant take on the holiday. | All told,…
(2024-10-19). Venezuela Captures 19 Foreigners Involved in Mercenary Plot (+CIA, CNI & Interpol). orinocotribune.com 
Venezuelan security agencies have arrested 19 mercenaries, including three Americans, two Colombians, one Peruvian, one Bolivian, and one Lebanese national involved in a far-right coup plot. One of US nationals had infiltrated religious groups, another hacked classified files from the Bank of Venezuela, while the third one was a paramedic, reported the minister of the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello. | The minister reported the news of the capture of this new group of mercenaries on Thursday, October 17, adding that the detainees were linked with the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the CIA, the Na…
(2024-10-19). Minister Cabello Criticizes John Bolton's Comment About Possible US-Venezuela Talks. orinocotribune.com
(2024-10-19). Venezuela's National Assembly Designates Conrado Pérez as New Rector of Electoral Authority. orinocotribune.com 
The National Assembly of Venezuela appointed Conrado Pérez as a new rector of the National Electoral Council (CNE) after the impeachment of former rector Juan Carlos Delpino. | In a regular session on Thursday, October 17, the National Assembly dismissed Delpino in accordance with Articles 31 and 32 of the Organic Law of the Electoral Power, and gave permission to the Public Ministry to immediately start a thorough investigation for his alleged participation in the commission of multiple crimes, including flagrant violation of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, electoral fraud, conspiracy,…
(2024-10-19). 'The Commune Is Nothing New Here': The Rio Cataniapo Commune. libya360.wordpress.com Chris Gilbert, Cira Pascual Marquina Las Pavas inhabitants in the Cataniapo River. (Rome Arrieche) A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members. Early in the last decade a set of communities along the Cataniapo River started to organize themselves to protect the river's ecosystem and bolster their…
(2024-10-19). Desmantelan nuevos planes terroristas contra Venezuela (+Foto y Audio). radiohc.cu Nuevamente, Venezuela desmanteló un plan terrorista contra el país, que incluía la entrada de mercenarios y de lotes de armamentos, denunció en rueda de prensa el vicepresidente sectorial de Política, Seguridad Ciudadana y Paz…
(2024-10-19). Cine Cubano en Venezuela (+Fotos y Audio). radiohc.cu Como una muestra de los lazos que unen ambas naciones, en Venezuela dio inicio un ciclo de cine cubano, que se extenderá hasta el 20 de octubre, cuando se celebra el Día de la Cultura de la Mayor de las Antillas.
(2024-10-19). Venezuela expresa solidaridad y apoyo incondicional a Cuba ante situación energética. radiohc.cu La Habana, 19 oct (RHC) El Ministerio para Relaciones Exteriores de Venezuela expresó su absoluta solidaridad y apoyo incondicional a Cuba, mientras hace frente a la contingencia energética coyuntural.
(2024-10-19). ALBA-TCP reafirma respaldo a Cuba frente a compleja situación energética (+Foto). radiohc.cu La Habana, 19 oct (RHC) Los Estados miembros de la Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra América-Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos (ALBA-TCP) emitieron este viernes un comunicado para reafirmar su solidaridad con el pueblo y Gobierno cubanos, ante la situación energética coyuntural que está atravesando.