July 21, 2019 North American activists, calling themselves the Embassy Protection Collective, defended the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington, DC from being usurped by representatives of the US-backed and unelected Juan Guaidó. The collective was acting with the permission of the democratically elected, legitimate government of Venezuela. For 37 days the collective bravely defended the embassy … Read More
Task Force on the America’s (https://taskforceamericas.org/) July 9, 2019 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s July 5 report on Venezuela echoes the US government’s talking points, which are designed to terminate Venezuela’s two-decade-old Bolivarian Revolution, without acknowledging Venezuela’s manifest accomplishments or even recognizing victims of US-backed rightwing violence in Venezuela. A more factual report … Read More
The blockade in context The U.S. has been pursuing a strategy of ‘regime change’ through destabilising Venezuela dating back to the early years of Hugo Chávez’s presidency. This led George W. Bush’s administration to support the failed coup d’état against Chávez in 2002 and also the right-wing management lock-out in the oil industry. The lock-out, … Read More
Haiti Action Committee strongly condemns the Joint Statement by nine members of the House of Representatives claiming “Violent Protests That Have Left Haiti at a Standstill.”Their assertion, “While the frustrations that have prompted the protests are justifiable, the violent acts being used to express them are indefensible” is as backwards a statement as President Trump equating those protesting white supremacy in … Read More
By Roger Harris on June 7, 2019 With the likes of John Bolton and Elliot Abrams directing US foreign policy, the US government has abandoned all pretense of “plausible denial” for its illegal regime-change initiatives. The “humanitarian” bombs may not be falling but, make no mistake, the US is waging a full-bore war against the … Read More