By Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. Underneath the appearance of “normalcy” in the ongoing relationship between Venezuela and the US lies a manifest asymmetry of power. Even commentators from mainstream international news outlets frame their analyses by drawing attention to the proverbial US gun held to acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s head and, … Read More
By John Perry, Popular Resistance. After Venezuela and Cuba, will the Trump administration turn its spotlight onto Nicaragua? Secretary of State Rubio has just finished a tour of three Latin American countries now allied with Trump – Colombia, Ecuador and Peru – and was asked about US policy towards Cuba and Nicaragua, and what he … Read More
by Roger Harris, published at Counterpunch September 2, 2026 Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful president, part of a larger and accelerating assertion of US imperial power worldwide. The Bolivarian Revolution … Read More
https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/decapitate-venezuela by Roger D. Harris, Francisco Dominguez, María Páez Victor Washington’s assault removed Maduro but failed to destroy Chavismo, fracture the military or unleash the regime-change collapse its architects expected. “Nothing is easier than to be idealistic on behalf of others.” Karl Marx, 1858 Under cover of night, the US military kidnapped the lawful … Read More
20 August 2026 For more than six decades, the United States has pursued an illegal and inhumane blockade against Cuba that has amounted to a crime against humanity. This policy systematically deprives the Cuban people of essential medicine and food, restricts access to fuel, financial transactions, and logistical transport, and fundamentally undermines Cuba’s sovereign development. … Read More