AMARYNTH—In October the US announced the temporary suspension of unilateral coercive measures after the signing of an agreement, known as the Barbados Accords, between the government and the US-backed opposition establishing certain conditions for the elections. The Biden administration later reintroduced wide-reaching economic coercive measures against Venezuela’s oil industry.
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How Venezuela Is Overcoming the US Blockade
13 minutes readROGER D. HARRIS—This election is taking place in the context of US unilateral coercive measures. These so-called sanctions have amounted to an actual economic and financial blockade designed to cripple the economy and cause the people to renounce their government. Such outside interference by Washington is tantamount to electoral blackmail.
Yet Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s deputy minister of foreign affairs for North America, is confident that the government party will win. He spoke on June 25 at a webinar organized by the Venezuela Solidarity Network.
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EDITOR—Guest Anya Parampil (The Grayzone) details the ways the US empire has long tried to grab Venezuela’s natural riches, especially its oil, the largest deposit of oil in the world, surpassing even Saudi Arabia. Parampil explains how Venezuela has resisted the US empire’s coups, sanctions, and other naked attempts at stealing her wealth, something bluntly admitted by Trump, whose government also recognised a ridiculous puppet, CIA-managed “true president of Venezuela,” one Juan Guaido, largely unknown and never elected by the Venezuelan people. Fortunately, the worst seems to be over, and Venezuela under Maduro is gradually emerging from the crisis, more determined than ever to defeat the imperialist attacks.
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EDITOR—BAR executive editor Margaret Kimberley interviews Gerald A. Perreira, chairperson of the Organization for the Victory of the People in Guyana. He joins us to discuss the long running territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region. Plus Margaret Kimberley and Danny Haiphong on US War Propaganda and Billionaire Control of US Politics.
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US Imperialism & Sanctions Are Driving Venezuela Migrant Crisis, NOT COMMUNISM: RBN’s Nick Cruse
60 Mins readEDITOR—The Wiki forgets to mention that Jean Pierre, besides being an overqualified WOKE specimen given her racial and LGBTQ creds, is also an accomplished red-baiter. This makes Jean Pierre something of a traitor to the political faith of her parents, reputedly members of Haiti’s Lavalas party. For those with no knowledge of Lavalas, or the alarmingly tragic political history of Haiti, all of it underwritten by French and later US imperialism, suffice it to say that Lavalas was led by the genuinely progressive Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a socialist / liberation theology priest who in 1990 became the first democratically-elected president of Haiti.