TeleSur, 27 April 2024 The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry indicated that, since 2009, Venezuela and Palestine have signed cooperation agreements in the areas of education, economy, energy, agriculture, culture, communication, sports, and health. The Government of Venezuela reaffirmed its friendship with Palestine on the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of its diplomatic relations, which is commemorated … Read More
BY ROGER HARRIS APRIL 22, 2024 A minute after midnight on April 18, the US reimposed coercive economic measures designed to cripple Venezuela’s oil industry. Later that day, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a new sanctions bill on Nicaragua. Meanwhile, Cuba protested the US’s six-decade blockade as talks resumed between the two countries on migration. At a time of challenged US dollar … Read More
By Geraldina Colotti, Resumen Latinoamericano, April 2, 2024. Alex Saab Venezuelan diplomat, Alex Saab, was acquitted of all charges by Florida Judge Robert Scola. The sentence, reported by the media, followed the pardon signed by U.S. President Joseph Biden on December 15, 2023. On December 20, Saab was released after a prisoner exchange with the … Read More
by Roger D. Harris February 06, 2024 Even the US business magazine Forbes expressed surprise at the reimposition of US sanctions on Venezuela’s gold sales and its threat to do the same with oil. The oil sanctions especially, if reinstated, would precipitate higher gas prices and further debilitate the Venezuelan economy, forcing more people to leave the country out of … Read More
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution marks its 25th anniversary this month, despite continuous US-led hybrid warfare to overthrow the socialist project. The Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro has successfully forced the US to de facto engage with it, although Washington still maintains the fiction that the defunct 2015 National Assembly is the “last remaining democratic institution” there. The US has been relegated to … Read More