Venezuela
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President Marudo: Venezuela, A Call for Peace
CARACAS, Venezuela — The recent protests in Venezuela have made international headlines. Much of the foreign media coverage has distorted the reality of my country and the facts surrounding the events. Continue reading
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Street Violence and the Political Destabilization of Venezuela. US Sponsored “Color Revolution” By Franck Gaudichaud
Venezuela is torn between the destabilising attempts of the right-wing, the limits of the Bolivarian process and the possibility the working class and the popular movements will advance the revolutionary project, but not without tensions and contradictions. Continue reading
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Interview with Ex-CIA Collaborator: “The CIA’s Plans in Venezuela Are Far Advanced” By Raúl Capote
In a recent interview in Havana, a former CIA collaborator, Cuban Raúl Capote, revealed the strategy of the CIA in Venezuelan universities to create the kind of destabilizing opposition student movement the country is currently facing. He also discusses media manipulation, and alleges that one of the U.S. diplomats that President Maduro expelled from Venezuela… Continue reading
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Action Alert: Protest Inaccurate Guardian Video on Events in Venezuela
Please find below a letter recently sent from academics to The Guardian requesting correction of an inaccurate video published on their website. We now are asking you to show your opposition to media misrepresentation of Venezuela by taking 30 seconds to fill in this easy online form to add your name to their letter. Continue reading
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Who Is Dying in Venezuela? A Revealing NYT Correction By Peter Hart
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has an op-ed in the New York Times today (3/26/14). Given that he is currently being held in a military prison, the piece is notable. But the most revealing part might be a correction that appears at the end: Correction: March 26, 2014 – An earlier version of this article… Continue reading
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Video: 'What's really going on in Venezuela?'
This is what’s really going on in Venezuela since January 2014. Continue reading
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The Strategy of the Venezuelan Opposition and How it Works By Steve Ellner
The strategy and tactics of the Venezuelan opposition is a replay of events that took place leading up to the coup against Hugo Chávez on April 11, 2002 and is similar (although in some ways quite different) from the script that has been used in the Ukraine and elsewhere. The blatant distortions and in some… Continue reading
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US Proxy Terror War on Venezuela By Prof. James Petras
Protest, dissent and terrorist wars are obviously very distinct forms of expressing opposition and bringing about change. The Obama-Kerry regime claim that the opposition in Venezuela is a “protest movement” a “peaceful democratic opposition” expressing discontent with economic conditions and that the democratically elected Maduro Administration is an ‘authoritarian regime’ violently repressing dissent. Washington claims… Continue reading
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Venezuela Deals Blow to Bankster Fascists By Dean Henderson
Maduro On March 15th Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro addressed his military. Mindful of the recent CIA/bankster putsch in Ukraine, he warned the right-wing fascist thugs who have incited violence in the country over the past two months, “Prepare yourself. We are coming for you.” He then played John Lennon’s Give Peace a Chance. Continue reading
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Don't Pray for Venezuela: The Struggle Against Contemporary Fascism By Chris Gilbert
The fascists who operate today in Venezuela — to say nothing of those active in the Ukraine, Greece, or Colombia — are by no means a historical aberration. Only if we take one of capitalism’s key myths at face value must we imagine that our current society is the wondrous culmination of a teleological evolutionary… Continue reading
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Fauxccupy: The Selling and Buying of the Venezuelan Opposition By Roberto Lovato
Reports and imagery coming out of Venezuela in the past weeks would lead the casual observer to conclude that the country’s youthful opposition are “peaceful protesters” following a long line of global youth activism seen during the Arab Spring, the Occupy movement or in other parts of Latin America. Such a conclusion would be false,… Continue reading
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US against Venezuela: Cold War Goes Hot By Nil Nikandrov
Just a little bit more and the regime would come crashing down, President Nicolás Maduro and his comrades would run off to Cuba, and the country would return to «a true democracy». The protests were widely covered by leading television channels in the West, and now – complete silence. Venezuelans are celebrating and relaxing. Continue reading
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Manufacturing Contempt for Venezuela By Cyril Mychalejko
The Venezuelan opposition has been skillfully using Twitter and Facebook to disseminate horrifying photos and testimonies of alleged government violence and abuse against protesters over the last few weeks. The problem with these allegations and images which have gone viral globally, and even used by media outlets, is that they are fabrications; many of the… Continue reading
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Venezuela: A New Lesson in Democracy By Carlos Fernandez Liria
The complicity of the Spanish media with Venezuelan coup-ism has never been as explicit and committed as it was in 2002, but it has been equally repugnant. The same lies as always, the same topics, the same rubbish. But for me, what stands out the most, is the silence of the most high-profile intellectuals about… Continue reading
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National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in Venezuela By Kim Scipes
As protests have been taking place in Venezuela for the last couple of weeks, it is good to check on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the US Empire’s “stealth” destabilizer. What has the NED been up to in Venezuela? Continue reading
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The Question of US ‘Democracy Promotion’ in the Newspaper of Record By Peter Hart
Sometimes the thing we call “media bias” isn’t about what a given piece of journalism explicitly says about the world; it’s more about the assumptions that must be taken for granted. Question those assumptions and the whole thing starts to fall apart. Continue reading
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Video: US Backing the Destabilization of Venezuela
Keane Bhatt: Elite forces in Venezuela and the US are determined to undermine the accomplishments of the Bolivarian revolution (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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