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Venezuela Newslinks 25-26 January 2019
26 January 2019 18:54 — The New Dark Age Yet Another U.S. Coup Attempt to Eradicate the Bolivarian Revolution http://covertactionmagazine.com/index.php/2019/01/26/yet-another-u-s-coup-attempt-to-eradicate-the-bolivarian-revolution/ Venezuela crisis: Maduro given ultimatum by European leaders https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-47014322 Continue reading
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The Donald’s bedtime storybook: First stop, Venezuela, next stop Iran
The attempted coup in Venezuela looks like it might be the brainchild of Zalmay Khalilzad, now back in the American jihad driver’s seat. ZKh’s counterinsurgency thoughts in The Envoy about Iran fit the bill. Continue reading
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US-Led Efforts to Overthrow Maduro Spurred by Business Interests, Not Democracy By Stephen Gowans
The US-led and coordinated intervention to overthrow Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro by recognizing Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s National Assembly as the interim president, has nothing whatever to do with restoring democracy in Venezuela (which was never overturned) and everything to do with promoting US business interests. Continue reading
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Venezuela – The U.S. Game Plan And How To Respond To It
Yesterday the U.S. recognized a right-wing ‘leader of the opposition’ in Venezuela Juan Guaido as the president of the country. A number of right-wing led countries in South America joint in that move. Cuba, Bolivia and Mexico rejected it. Russia, China, Iran and Turkey continue to support the the government of the elected President Nicolas… Continue reading
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Venezuela: What’s been learnt won’t be easily forgotten – a conversation with Antonio Gonzalez Plessmann
In this interview with Cira Pascual Marquina, he presents important insights into the revolutionary potential that Chavismo unleashed during the course of the Bolivarian Process. It’s a potential that, he thinks, could be set rolling again. Continue reading
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Media Reports “Good News”: Kids Are Dying in Venezuela, Sanctions are Working… By David William Pear
he Guardian’s Tom Phillips’ article Venezuela Crisis Takes Deadly Toll on Buckling Health System (January 06, 2019) is more good news for US psychopaths, such as Trump, Bolton and Pompeo. Children are dying in Venezuela. Sanctions are working! Continue reading
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The United States are preparing a war between Latin-American states by Thierry Meyssan
Little by little, the partisans of the Cebrowski doctrine are advancing their pawns. If they must cease creating wars in the Greater Middle East, they’ll just turn around and inflame the Caribbean Basin. Above all, the Pentagon is planning to assassinate an elected head of state, ruin his country, and undermine the unity of Latin-America. Continue reading
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Russian Bombers Landing in Venezuela: A Reaction to US Threats
While the US tried to portray the landing of Russian nuclear weapons capable bombers in Venezuela as a threat, Venezuela clearly sees the US as the threat, which is why the Russian military was invited, say Steve Ellner and Greg Wilpert. Continue reading
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ACTION ALERT: Venezuela Poses No ‘Threat to the World’—but WaPo’s Claim That It Does Is Dangerous
The Washington Post (9/10/18) describes US officials meeting with Venezuelan coup-plotters to discuss the overthrow of President Nicolás Maduro as “more fuel for his paranoia.” And it cites the White House dismissing “speculation that it wants to intervene” in Venezuela—ignoring the fact that the US has for years been heavily intervening to wreck the country’s… Continue reading
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Empire Journalism: Venezuela, the US and John McCain
To realise how incomplete and distorted is BBC News coverage, you only have to listen to the superb independent journalist Abby Martin, who has risked her life to report what the corporate media is not telling you about Venezuela. It is little wonder that, as she discusses, her important news programme, ‘Empire Files’, is currently… Continue reading
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Venezuela Election Info
VSC have issued the following information on the election that took place yesterday, 30 July 2017 on revising the country’s constitution. “On Sunday over 8 million Venezuelans, representing a turnout of 41.5%, participated in elections for a Constituent Assembly to revise the constitution, and provide an elected mechanism to help resolve the country’s current difficulties. Continue reading
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Venezuela “Regime Change”: Will Washington Unseat President Maduro? Selected Articles
30 July 2017 — Global Research Much has been said about the civil unrest in Venezuela which is spearheaded by the US-engineered opposition groups plotted to impose a ‘regime change’ and oust the incumbent president. Who compose these opposition groups and how strong are they to unseat a democratically elected leader? Read our selected articles below. Continue reading
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Bloomberg’s Hit Job on Venezuela – and Me By Michael Hudson
I just had a disastrous and embarrassing interaction with Bloomberg, and feel that I was ambushed and sandbagged by having my comments taken out of context in a hit piece Bloomberg’s journalists wrote on Venezuela – evidently trying to distort my own views in a two-for-one job. Continue reading
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Venezuela Exposes Plot to Assassinate President Maduro
Venezuelan authorities have publicized correspondences between opposition leaders & U.S. diplomats which, they say, constitute a plan to assassinate president Nicolas Maduro & overthrow his administration. Continue reading
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Political Destabilization in Venezuela and the Western Media’s Double Standard By Salim Lamrani
Since 1998, the Venezuelan opposition has consistently rejected the results of the country’s democratic elections. There is a single exception: it recognized the legitimacy of its own victory in the constitutional referendum of December 2, 2007, something it won by less than a one percent margin. The right has been strongly opposed to the legitimately… Continue reading
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US moves towards sanctions as Venezuela charges coup plot By Bill Van Auken
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation mandating sanctions against Venezuela as officials there presented evidence of US involvement in a plot to bring down the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Continue reading
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U.S. Intelligence Terrorizes Venezuela By Nil Nikandrov
After the victory of Hugo Chavez’ successor Nicolas Maduro in the 2013 presidential election, the CIA tried to use a modernized version of the Chilean scenario to overthrow him. Forty years ago that scenario worked: in September 1973 the government of Salvador Allende was literally destroyed. Continue reading
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Venezuela’s Maduro charges US with fomenting Ukraine-style coup By Bill Van Auken
Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has charged that Washington is fomenting a Ukrainian-Style “slow-motion” coup against his government in a bid to “get their hands on Venezuelan oil.” Continue reading
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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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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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