The current political situation in Venezuela cannot be explained solely by the events following January 3, 2026. We need to contextualize what has been happening over the past four decades. In the 1990s, there was total U.S. hegemony on the continent, which imposed the NAFTA agreement on us, and then sought to impose the FTAA […]
Members of the Comuna Socialista Simón Bolívar in Caracas’ 23 de enero neighborhood share how they experienced the U.S. terrorist attack on Venezuela on January 3rd, in which they killed 130 people and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, while targeting civilian infrastructure. They also express their views on the situation in the country,
In a show of patriotic unity, Venezuelans took to the streets immediately following the January 3rd attack to denounce imperialist violence and demand the return of kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores. The next day, a mass march was held in Caracas in repudiation of the rogue U.S. attack on Venezuela. Watch the video
Diosdado Cabello has put the country on alert with a warning that after the kidnapping of President Maduro, the United States is moving to a second stage aimed at dividing the revolutionary movement. He cautions over “playing into the hands of imperialism” and emphasizes the ‘monolithic unity’ of the revolutionary forces. In an audio shared
The Norwegian peace movement held a press conference in Oslo to denounce the Nobel Committee’s decision to award US-backed Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado, with participating speakers arguing that the 2025 prize supports war, coups, foreign intervention and genocide. The meeting was chaired by John Y. Jones of Lay Down Your Arms (LDYA) and
The Assembly of Caribbean People is calling for further action across the region to oppose U.S. military aggression against Venezuela. In a statement dated December 2, the Regional Executive Committee of the Assembly of Caribbean People calls on all social movements and civil society organizations to continue to take action at this critical moment against
This month’s CELAC-EU Summit failed to produce a response to the ongoing U.S. terror strikes and extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and in the Pacific. However, the peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America are raising their collective voice in opposition. Social movements, unions and peoples from around the region gathered in Colombia’s coastal
A gathering of parliamentarians from 14 countries has been held in Caracas during which a call was issued for the immediate cessation of all actions by the United States that violate the sovereignty of states of the Caribbean and the withdrawal of its military fleet from the region. The following declaration, dated Friday, October 31st,
Through the vice presidency, the Bolivarian government of Venezuela has denounced a military provocation by Trinidad and Tobago, in coordination with the CIA, aimed at provoking a war in the Caribbean. Below is the statement published on Sunday, October 26, 2025. The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela denounces to the international community the dangerous execution of
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