High-Value US Asset “Fat Leonard” Arrested in Venezuela – Possible Prisoner Swap By Roger D. Harris on October 4, 2022 The principal perpetrator, in what AP News called “one of the most extensive bribery scandals in US military history,” popped up in Venezuela of all places. Leonard Glenn Francis bilked the US Navy out of at least … Read More
BY ROGER HARRIS US special presidential envoy for hostage affairs Roger Carstens is on a case which could lead to freeing Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. Pressure is building on the Biden administration to swap Saab for some American citizens currently incarcerated in Venezuela. Alex Saab targeted in the US economic war against Venezuela Alex Saab, who … Read More
By Stansfield Smith During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. Soft coups, a new strategy, are a significant change from the brutal 1970s military hard coups in … Read More
A United States government delegation that visited Venezuela in March failed to produce an agreement with the government of Nicolás Maduro.
The United States imposed a series of harsh sanctions on Russia following Moscow’s recognition of the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region on February 21, and its subsequent military intervention in Ukraine on February 24.