Venezuela & ALBA Weekly Newsletter

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…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 7.17.2020: Nicaragua’s July 19 anniversary; Biden with Trump on Venezuela; Cuban solidarity ““We will always be where we most honor the country”

Nicaragua NicaNotes: The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped: Nicaragua Advances Despite US Unconventional Warfare New online book contents: Economic and Social Progress Continues The Amnesty Peace and Reconciliation in Nicaragua Uniting a Country and its People: 32 Years of Autonomy on Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast The Natural Environment – Conservation, National Development and Climate Change Nicaraguan Women…

Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 7.10.2020 #310 New Data on the Cost of the Economic War on Venezuela; Cuba, Where Black Lives Matter; Nicaragua’s actual Human Rights

Cuba TeleSur: Black Lives Matter in Cuba It is precisely because of Cuba’s anti-racist and pro-worker policies that the U.S. government has labeled the country “a violator of human rights.” The Revolution’s Early Measures Against Racism; Solidarity with African-Americans; Cuba’s Contribution to African Liberation Movements; Socialist Health Care and Revolutionary Doctors. CubanNewsAgency (ACN): US blockade…

Venezuela & ALBA News 7.3.2020 US and Britain Loot Venezuela’s Wealth; Free Simon Trinidad, Webinars

Venezuelanalysis: UK Court Denies Venezuela $1.13 billion in Gold, Says Guaido is President The High Court blocked the Venezuelan government’s effort to recover 31 tons of the nation’s gold held by the Bank of England. The court said it “unequivocally recognised opposition leader Juan Guaidó as president,” rejecting the Maduro government’s right to repatriate the…

Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 6.26.2020 Trump and Biden on Maduro; Bolton’s Venezuela Chapter; “WASP Network,” Cuban Police

https://chicagoalbasolidarity.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/venezuela-alba-weekly-6-26-2020-trump-and-biden-on-maduro-boltons-venezuela-chapter-film-wasp-network-cuban-police/ Axios: Trump cold on Guaidó, would consider meeting Maduro Once again Trump showed he can be more sensible than the neo-con national security state ideologues in government. Trump suggested he’s had second thoughts about his decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and said he is open to meeting with…

Venezuela & ALBA News 6.19.2020 Cuba and Venezuela condemn racist First World, Continue International Solidarity and Cooperation

Speech by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez during online conference of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) June 10: These hard times motivate us to continue working together, with more cooperation and consensus building “Every ship to which ports have been closed; every plane that has not found a landing strip;…

Venezuela- ALBA Weekly 6.12.2020: US Campaign against Cuban Doctors, against the COVID Success in Nicaragua, against Venezuela’s Economy

Cuba FAIR (Joe Emersberger): US Campaign Against Cuba’s Medical Brigades Targets Healthcare, Not ‘Forced Labor’ US government allegations that don’t stand up to minimal scrutiny is the opposite of caring about the working conditions of the doctors. But the sources US journalists usually rely on—the right-wing media in Venezuela, for example—have been doing that for…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 5.5.2020: Latest Interviews with Carlos Ron, Evo Morales; Venezuela’s Recent Political Victories, The Regime Change Role of WOLA

PopularResistance: The Federal Charges against Four Embassy Protection Collective Members Dropped After a jury refused to convict them in early February, resulting in a mistrial, the prosecutors offered to drop the federal charge and substitute one of most minor local misdemeanor charges in the DC Code, incommoding, basically causing a disturbance. The protectors were facing…

Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 5.29.2020: Team Venezuela-Iran face down the US; New anti-Venezuela campaigns start

Venezuela US now charging President Maduro’s Wife, Cilia Flores, and Chavista Adel El Zabayar with drug trafficking Orinoco Tribune: New Human Rights Watch smear campaign claims Venezuela has 30,000 COVID deaths Some international media launched a smear campaign that allegedly there are not 11 deaths, but 30 thousand deaths from coronavirus in Venezuela. The launching…