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Venezuela Must be Respected

By Marina Menéndez Quintero on August 4, 2024 from Havana

supporters of Maduro celebrate the continuation of the Bolivarian Revolution. photo: Zoe Alexander

There are many elements that show the weaknesses of the masquerade unfolding against Venezuela, above all, of its dangers is their inadmissible demand that the National Electoral Council (CNE) open the alleged “chest” of the voting records to the world. (more…)

Latin America Leads Energy Transition but Much Remains to Be Done

By Alejandra Garcia on August 4, 2024

 photo: Bill Hackwell

Amid the debate on the future developments of climate change and the need to reduce net emissions to zero in the next two decades, the global energy transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies cannot be postponed. Latin America, one of the regions hardest hit by climate change, is taking giant steps towards changing its energy matrix to enable a sustainable and planet-friendly future. (more…)

An Attempted Coup By Any Other Name…

By Maria Páez Victor on August 2, 2024

“We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”

-Elon Musk, July 25, 2020, Twitter

Once again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organized crime and a cyber-attack. (more…)

What is Petro, Lula and López Obrador’s Diplomatic Gamble for Venezuela?

By Ociel Alí López on August 2, 2024

Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks with his counterparts from Brazil and Mexico on Aug 1, photo: Juan Diego Cano

Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, have become key players in curbing lawsuits, sanctions and offensives against Venezuela as tensions simmer after the July 28 elections. (more…)

In Venezuela, Peace Counts, Peace is Counted

By Geraldina Colotti, on August 2, 2024 from Caracas

Demonstrators light a fire during a protest against the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on April 20, 2014. photo: Juan Barreto, AFP.

“We have seen the face of fascism, which wants to provoke a bloodbath. We had too much patience with Guaidó in the first part. Now we say to the United States: take your nose out of Venezuela, here the people decide. fascism will not pass!”. (more…)

One-Hundred-Twenty-Three Countries do not Believe Cuba Sponsors Terrorism

August 1, 2024

A declaration signed by 123 countries, issued from the United Nations Human Rights Council, demands the United States remove Cuba from the List of States that allegedly sponsor terrorism, the effects of which reinforce the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the US Government. (more…)

Venezuela: Defending Maduro’s Victory is to Oppose Fascism

By Carlos Aznárez, Resumen Latinoamericano, August 1, 2024

“Let them show the records!” has become the buzzword to refer to Venezuela and its recent electoral process. Nothing less could be expected from those who are the supporters, on the right and “left” of a bourgeois-democratic system for which the Bolivarian Revolution has become, for the last 35 years, an enemy to be destroyed. (more…)

Collapsing Empire: The Day Sanctions Died

By Kit Klarenberg on July 31, 2024

illustration: Zeinab El-Hajj

By sanctioning so many countries so readily, the Empire has in effect sanctioned itself – and convinced an ever-increasing number of countries to seek alternative economic and financial structures. (more…)

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