Leave Venezuela! No, Go Back!
When the Biden Administration announced its intent to extend the southern border wall, as well as to begin deporting Venezuelans illegally entering the country, American news media were quick to...
View ArticleGaza Divides the World, Again
My award for courageous elocution of the week goes hands-down to Samuel Moncada, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations, who addressed the General Assembly last Tuesday on the topic of Israel and...
View ArticleWar for Oil Fears Grow as US Holds Military Drills in Guyana Amid Venezuela...
U.S. forces held joint military drills within Guyanese airspace on Thursday as a longstanding and intensifying territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana sparked fears of war in South America. At...
View ArticleVenezuela, Guyana: The shocking war that wasn’t
On December 4, Venezuelan voters reportedly approved a referendum to annex Essequibo, a Florida-sized portion of neighboring Guyana. On December 5, president Nicolas Maduro ordered his government to...
View ArticleThe New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in creating a military...
View ArticleWashington Sets the Stage for Delegitimizing Venezuela’s Presidential Election
While still egregiously interventionist, the imperial power has been relegated to vetting candidates for the upcoming Venezuelan presidential election, having failed to achieve outright regime change....
View ArticleConstituted and Communal Power: A Conversation with Ángel Prado
Ángel Prado, mayor of El Maizal Commune discusses how developing communal power and self-governance, as inspired by Hugo Chávez, can ensure dignity for everyone and ownership of the production cycle....
View ArticleIs Hugo Chávez to Blame for Venezuela’s Collapse?
Hugo Chávez died eleven years ago. The period since has been one of the most difficult in Venezuela’s history. From 2014 to 2021, Venezuela suffered one of the worst economic crises in modern history....
View ArticleVenezuela’s Election in the Crosshairs of New U.S. Regime Change Scheme
Twenty-five years after Hugo Chávez took office and began the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, U.S. officials have still not tired of dreaming up new plots to overthrow the country’s government....
View ArticleVenezuela’s Presidential Elections: Maduro Plays Hardball but There Are...
Historian and political analyst Steve Ellner lays down the political stakes and US meddling ahead of Venezuela’s electoral race. It is no secret that the Washington establishment is as enamored with...
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