January, 2026
Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodríguez at a meeting with communes in Caracas, January 10, 2026. Photo: Venezuelan Presidential Press.
Who leads the Venezuelan people? The people’s power. Who governs Venezuela? The people’s power and its constitutional government,” declared Venezuela’s Acting President Delcy Rodríguez. “So there is no doubt here, no uncertainty here … The Venezuelan people rule here, and there is a government, the government of President Nicolás Maduro, and I have the responsibility to lead it while he is being held captive. That is the message for all of Venezuela.” (more…)
January 2026
Grassroots International; linking statements of solidarity in support of Venezuela
source: @jsalppr on Instagram
On the morning of January 3, 2026, the US government broke with any semblance of adherence to international law when it invaded Venezuela, dropping deadly missiles on the capital that claimed the lives of over 100 people, and kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cicilia Flores. This attack on Venezuela – blatantly in the interest of the US government seizing Venezuela’s oil – is not only unconscionable in and of itself; it threatens efforts for sovereignty, self-determination, peace, and justice across the globe. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on January 10, 202
A local Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) discusses problems and solutions on the local level. foto: Bill Hackwell
Since the U.S. imperialist invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, the Western media has been awash with the familiar chorus: Cuba is about to fall. Once again, pundits, think tanks, and editorial boards dust off an old script, announcing the imminent demise of the Cuban Revolution. Hardship is paraded as destiny; scarcity is reframed as failure; endurance is mocked as denial. The message is clear and rehearsed: history has run its course, and Cuba must submit. (more…)
By Bill Hackwell on January 7, 2026 from Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba
Gerardo Hernandez meeting with the CDR in Arroyo Naranjo, fotos Bill Hackwell
Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, the national coordinator of Cuba’s Committees for the Defense of Revolution (CDR) has a large office on the top floor of the organization’s headquarters on the busy Linea Avenue in Havana. The problem is you will never find him there. Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five heroes who spent 16 years in US Federal prisons for monitoring the activities of anti Cuban terrorists operating with impunity in Southern Florida, is making up for lost time circulating around Cuba listening to the needs and problems of the people on the community level while engaging in home grown methods of solving them. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on January 7, 2026 from Havana
On January 3 Latin America awoke shaken by one of the most serious and dramatic episodes in international relations in recent decades. The bombing of military facilities and residential neighborhoods in Caracas and three other states of the country by the United States, followed by the kidnapping—rather than the “extraction,” as the corporate media presents it—of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros and his wife, Cilia Flores, marks a breaking point in an already weakened regional system. For broad political, social, and religious sectors of the region, the operation represents a flagrant violation of a state’s sovereignty and a definitive blow to what for years had been called the “rules-based world order.” (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on January 7, 2026
“Follow our Tags” graphic: Adano
The mythomaniac Marco Rubio, in his role as head of the State Department, is launching a strong media offensive to try to distort the treacherous kidnapping of Venezuelan constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros and make the public believe that what happened was the capture or apprehension of a “drug trafficker.” (more…)
By Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron on January 7, 2026
Venezuelan Acting President Delcy Rodriguez speaks during a council of ministers meeting at the Vice President Headquarters
Elite Delta Force troops descended from the helicopters to the location where President Nicolás Maduro was spending the night. They faced resistance from soldiers on the ground, but overwhelming firepower from the air killed many Venezuelan and Cuban soldiers (24 Venezuelans, according to the Venezuelan Army, and 32 Cubans, according to Havana). Once ground resistance was neutralised, the Delta Force seized President Maduro and Venezuela National Assembly member, Cilia Flores, Maduro’s wife. (more…)
January 6, 2026
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, made his first statements before a New York court after his kidnapping on January 3 by specialized U.S. military commandos in a military operation carried out on Venezuelan territory. The president declared himself a “prisoner of war” and categorically rejected the charges against him, reaffirming his status as the legitimate head of state of the Bolivarian Republic. (more…)