Venezuela & ALBA Weekly Newsletter

Venezuela & ALBA News 10.2.2020 US Finding itself Isolated as Venezuela Elections Divide its Allies

Orinoco Tribune: US Criticism of European Mission to Venezuela Shows Growing Divide over President Maduro The Washington Post raised the issue of the divide between Washington and the European Union over the regime change operation against Venezuela led by the White House for almost two years with no signs of success foreseen in the near…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 9.25.2020 Presidential Addresses to the UN General Assembly; Venezuela Responses to Sham Human Rights Report

President Maduro Speech to UN General Assembly September 23, 2020 The United States of America, far from taking a positive or proactive leadership position, conducts itself erratically under a government that is intransigent and hostile to diplomacy and high politics, since it openly disregards multilateralism and any type of pre-existing global rule. Continuing on the…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 9.18.2020 Venezuela Breaks New CIA Terrorist Operation Tied to Repression of US BLM Protests

MintPress (Alan Macleod): As Venezuela Foils CIA “Terror Plot” Pompeo Tours Its Neighbors To Talk Regime Change Venezuela’s government has announced it has foiled a potential terror attack, arresting a former CIA operative while he was on a stakeout near the country’s largest oil refining facility. Matthew John Heath was arrested with three other Venezuelans…

Venezuela & ALBA News 9.4.2020 Pres. Maduro’s Pardons Further Divides pro-US Opposition; US Discounts any Invasion

WHO data contradict anti-Nicaragua & anti-Venezuela propaganda about COVID-19 cases Venezuelanalysis: Venezuela’s Maduro Grants Pardon to 110 Opposition Figures President Maduro has pardoned more than 100 opposition leaders as the country heads toward parliamentary elections in December. “The intention is to deepen the process of national reconciliation in view of the next electoral process,” Communications…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 8.28.2020: Less EU Hostility to Venezuela; CUPW Resolution on Cuba; Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador

Venezuela TeleSur: Venezuela Receives Supplies and Equipment from Europe Venezuela received 73 tons of supply donations from Spain and Portugal, facilitated by the UN and the European Union. Seventy-three tons of donated supplies arrived in Caracas from Europe to assist in the fight against COVID-19. This new contribution is part of the more than 1,500…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 8.21.2020: Cuba has new COVID vaccine; video of Arreaza webinar; US Regime Change against Nicaragua

Prensa Latina: President Diaz-Canel congratulates Cuban developers of Covid-19 vaccine President Miguel Díaz-Canel congratulated the group of scientists who created the first Cuban vaccine candidate against Covid-19, which was officially presented on Wednesday.Vicente Verez Bencomo, general director of the Finlay Institute of Vaccines and project leader, said that the Cuban vaccine candidate presents low risks,…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 8.7.2020: USAID Documents show what the US plans for Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba

Venezuela Venezuelanalysis: Opposition to Boycott December Election The actual title of this article is mistaken (“US Backs Guaido-led Opposition in Election Boycott”) The US does not “back” or “support” Guido’s decisions. The US tells him what to do. The last paragraph makes this plain: “Representatives of Guaido and the Venezuelan government entered into negotiations brokered…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 7.31.2020 New US Strategy against Venezuela; Cuba and Nicaragua Speeches; The Venezuela Economy and Class Relations

Redfish video: Hugo Chavez Speaks At The World Social Forum US War on Venezuela Orinoco Tribune: After 23 Years of Media Warfare Against Venezuela, the US Says it Will Start a Media War The genocide perpetretor Elliott Abrams (mastermind of massacres and attacks in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua) was in charge of delivering this…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 7.24.2020 Nicaragua and Cuba Celebrate July 19 and 26; COVID rampant in non-ALBA Latin America

PeoplesDispatch: Coronavirus and Economic Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean will deepen in coming monthsThis area is emerging as the new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The acceleration is driven by the easing of quarantine measures and the lifting of restrictions on economic activities. The governments have rushed workers to return to work without…