Venezuela & ALBA Weekly Newsletter

Venezuela & ALBA News 7.14.2023: Stop Biden’s Appointment of Terrorist Elliot Abrams; The “Other” Farewell Letter from Che Guevara to Fidel Castro

AFGJ Alert: Biden Administration’s nomination of Elliott Abrams to the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy must be stopped! Sign on to send a letter to Biden and your Senators. Code Pink: Elliot Abrams – Tell your Senators to vote NO on his appointment! Send an email to your Senator. Ben Norton: Biden joins…

Venezuela & ALBA News #460, 7.7.2023: Venezuela Condemns US and European Union Interference in Upcoming Elections; Biden Turns to Elliot Abrams

Resumen Latinoamericano: Why Europe, U.S., China and Russia are not the same for Latin America We Latin Americans have a very well-documented history of colonization, exploitation, and occupation with Europeans and North Americans, but not with China and Russia. It was not the Russians or the Chinese who implemented Plan Condor in South America, which left…

Venezuela & ALBA News 6.30.2023: Washington Protest against Blockade on Cuba; 37 Years Since Nicaragua’s International Court of Justice Win against US

Video: The ALBA-TCP:  First Fair Trade Agreement in the World & How the US Tried to Destroy it with Cuba Ambassador Igarza, Venezuela Deputy Minister Carlos Ron, and Nicaragua Minister of Commerce Jesus Bermudez Short webinar clips of the Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela officials on relations with China and Iran   Al Mayadeen: Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela voice support…

Venezuela & ALBA News 6.23.2023: Reports from Free Alex Saab Summit

MorningStar (Francisco Dominguez): Alex Saab, hostage of the hybrid war against Venezuela Because the brutality and cruelty of the US blockade was wreaking havoc on the economy and millions of the most vulnerable in Venezuela were being deliberately denied their human rights to the most basic necessities of daily life, President Maduro tasked Saab with traveling…

Venezuela & ALBA News 6.16.2023: Iran’s President Visits Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba; Free Alex Saab conference, 3 Years of His Imprisonment

Iran President Raisi Visit to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba Orinoco Tribune: Iran and Venezuela Sign 25 Agreements in Caracas President Maduro on  Iran’s President Raisi visit, “This visit marks a new milestone in a relationship that has been built from the brotherhood, from the cooperation of two peoples, of two countries that were born to…

Venezuela & ALBA News 6.9.2023: Venezuela a Leader in the Struggle to Build a Multipolar World

June 18: The ALBA-TCP:  First Fair Trade Agreement in the World & How the US Tried to Destroy It  Héctor Igarza Cabrera, Cuban Ambassador to Canada Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and President of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among People Jesús Bermudez, Nicaragua Minister of…

Venezuela & ALBA News 6.2.2023: South America Advances Towards New Stage of Unity in Diversity

Venezuela Peoples Dispatch: Nicolás Maduro makes historic trip to Brazil for South American Presidents’ Summit  President Lula said, “I confronted fellow European social democrats, governments, and U.S. authorities for accepting that Juan Guaido was ‘Interim President’ of Venezuela. Maduro was elected by the people and to say otherwise is absurd. That’s how people who defend…

Venezuela & ALBA News 5.26.2023: US Blockades and Terrorism smear on Cuba and Venezuela cause US border issue

Venezuela Jacobin: US Sanctions Are Driving Displacement and Migration From Cuba and Venezuela If the Biden administration wants to stop the mass displacement that is leading enormous numbers of Cuban and Venezuelan migrants to the US-Mexico border, it should end the sanctions that have made life in those countries all but impossible for average people.…

Venezuela & ALBA News 5.19.2023: US Looting of Venezuela; Venezuela and Nicaraguan Laws against US NGOs; US Harasses Cuba May Day visitors

Venezuela Orinoco Tribune: Venezuela’s NGO Oversight Law to Ensure Transparency According to Deputy Diosdado Cabello, “62 NGOs operate in the country, and none of them have a social purpose, but a political one, which is contrary to the laws of the nation.” The NGO oversight law has not been received well by opposition figures, as…

Venezuela & ALBA News 5.5.2023: Letters from Alex Saab in his Imprisonment

Letters of Alex Saab from his Imprisonment The book of letters and interviews Venezuelan diplomat and US political prisoner Alex Saab made before the US seized him and brought him to Miami.   Events  Thursdays: WTF is Going on in Latin America & The Caribbean with Teri Mattson (or watch here or here)   Delegations/Tours…