Staff (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…

Briana L. Urena-Ravelo, In These Times. (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,…

Staff (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…

scorinoco (2024-10-19). Minister Cabello Criticizes John Bolton's Comment About Possible US-Venezuela Talks. orinocotribune.com

scorinoco (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,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (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…

María Candela (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…

María Candela (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.

Martha Ríos (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.

Martha Ríos (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.

Staff (2024-10-15). President Maduro on October 12: 'Nothing To Celebrate—Neither Hispanic Day nor Race Day'. orinocotribune.com During the great Indigenous and Afro-descendant march commemorating the Day of Indigenous Resistance in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro said in an interview that there is nothing to celebrate this October 12th and recalled that the greatest genocide in the history of humanity has been ongoing since 1492. | "Fascism is the heir and direct expression of colonialism," said the president during the march. "Today's fascism is the heir of the worst in the history of humanity. We are the heirs of the most noble and beautiful resistance: the heirs of Guaicaipuro, which represents our dignity. We are the revolutionari…

Juan M. Garcia (2024-10-15). Cuban film show in Caracas to celebrate National Culture Day. plenglish.com Caracas, Oct 15 (Prensa Latina) In a joint effort by the Cuban Embassy in Venezuela and the local Cinematheque, Cuban films will be screened here from October 16 through 20, to celebrate Cuba's Culture Day on the 20th.

Staff (2024-10-15). Venezuela: Opposition Party Justice First Will Not Support 'Government in Exile'. orinocotribune.com The Venezuelan far-right political party Justice First (PJ) approved a resolution agreeing not to support any "government in exile." This was revealed to Globovisión television station by internal sources of the political organization. | PJ members signed a document in which they ratified their decision not to support a "government in exile" despite pressure from a wing of the party. | They also said that they would not support additional sanctions against Venezuela, given that they threaten Venezuela's stability. | "Yesterday, we defeated them. We approved a document stating that we will not support any governme…

Staff (2024-10-15). Venezuela's Attorney General: Lula & Boric Were Co-opted by the CIA. orinocotribune.com The Attorney General of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, pointed to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Chilean President Gabriel Boric as the "two spokesmen" of the Latin American left co-opted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). | The head of the Public Prosecutor's Office said that it has been "proven" that the Chilean president is a "CIA agent" and that "he is being followed now," according to Saab, by the Brazilian president who was also co-opted. | The prosecutor also said that the Brazilian president "is not the same. I met him in the Orinoco oil belt when I was governor of…

Pablo Rafael Fuentes (2024-10-15). Proceso de paz en Colombia regresa a ONU en revisión trimestral. radiohc.cu La Habana, 15 oct (RHC) El camino hacia la paz total en Colombia reunirá hoy al Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU durante la revisión trimestral de ese proceso, presentada por la Misión de Verificación del organismo en el país sudamericano.

presstv.ir (2024-10-15). Iran, Oman call for urgent international action to stop Israeli genocide in Gaza, Lebanon. presstv.ir The Iranian and Omani foreign ministers call for an immediate international intervention to end Israel's genocide and aggression in Gaza and Lebanon.