While Thousands of Venezuelans Died, Chrystia Freeland Called for Sanctions with ‘More Bite’

Owen Schalk Lima Group heads of diplomacy Chrystia Freeland (center) and U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft appeared before reporters at the end of their meeting. THE CANADIAN PRESS / SEAN KILPATRICK Sanctions have caused widespread harm and exacerbated the region’s migration crisis Sanctions have become the most common weapon of war used by the…

Venezuela: The Fight Between PSUV and PCV is Unnecessary, Untimely, and Alien

Clodovaldo Hernández Life turns on a dime: The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) had never had as much public attention as it does these days. It has even become a trending topic on social media platforms despite the fact that many of their leaders do not use those platforms because they are weapons (although not…

The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions

Francisco R. Rodiguez Executive Summary This paper provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the literature on the effects of economic sanctions on living standards in target countries. We identify 32 studies that apply quantitative econometric and calibration methods to cross-country and national data in order to assess the impact of economic sanctions on indicators…

Slavery and Prior Accumulation in Venezuela

Cira Pascual Marquina Enrique S. Rivera is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer. He teaches at UCLA, and his recent book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution (2021), focuses on the 1795 anti-slavery rebellion in the west of what we now know as Venezuela, but it also examines the origins of…

On the Long Path to Reparations

Cira Pascual Marquina Jesús “Chucho” García is an intellectual and activist, and the author of several books, including Afrovenezolanidad e inclusión en el Proceso Bolivariano [Afro-Venezuelanness and Inclusion in the Bolivarian Process, 2018]. He is also a founder of the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations and a member of the National Decolonization Commission. In this interview, García talks…

International Conference on Venezuela Concludes in Colombia with Call for Lifting US Sanctions

Peoples Dispatch Colombia hosted the International Conference on the Political Process in Venezuela on April 25, 2023, with the participation of representatives from 19 countries and the European Union (EU). (Photo: Colombian Presidency/Twitter) The conference was organized with the objective to reignite the dialogue and negotiation process between the Venezuelan government and the platform of…

Nicolas Maduro: Has He Become a Neoliberal?

Thierry Deronne Caracas, April 20, 2023. Meeting with the president of Bolivia Luis Arce Lucho Arce, the president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro proposes to make of the two nations a public industrial pole that will produce and guarantee the necessary fertilizers to the peasants of Latin America and the Caribbean. In various sectors of the…

JUICE Mission: Venezuelan Astrophysics and Space Geopolitics

Yoselina Guevara López Venezuelan astrophysicist, Miriam Rengel This April 14, the JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) mission was launched at the spaceport of Kourou (French Guiana), which will make detailed observations of the planet Jupiter, focusing on the study of its largest moons: Callisto, Europa and Ganymede, in addition to its hidden oceans underground. Venezuelan…

An Increasingly Strategic Alliance: Key Points of Lavrov’s Visit to Venezuela

Misión Verdad “We will move forward in working on issues that unite us,” President Maduro told the Russian diplomat. On Tuesday, April 18, the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, visited Caracas as part of a tour of Latin America. Coming from Brazil, the diplomat held meetings with Executive Vice-President Delcy Rodríguez Gómez…

Petro Meets Biden and Asks for an End to Sanctions against Venezuela

Lucas Estanislau Petro and Biden met at the White House. Photo: Colombian Presidential Press Colombian president proposed an electoral timeline linked to the elimination of sanctions: ‘for the people to decide freely’ Colombian President Gustavo Petro made his first official visit to the United States and met with US President Joe Biden on Thursday April…

Russia Plays in “America’s Back Yard”

Another step forward in the integration of the nations of Latin America into the rising multipolar world, with a visit from Russia’s foreign minister to Brazil, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba this week. Don DeBar has more. With Stephen Sefton. 20 April 2023 22:48 Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to the Republic of Cuba…

Unusual and Extraordinary: Is Corruption the Enemy to Unify Chavismo?

Clodovaldo Hernández If we follow along with most interpretations of the anti-corruption campaign undertaken by the Venezuelan government over the last few weeks, we would have to conclude that within Chavismo, the political conglomerate that sustains the Venezuelan revolution, there is a war of extermination between factions going on. This perception has solid foundations, since the…

Venezuela-US Relations: When ‘Maximum Pressure’ Fails

Carlos Ron President Maduro has shown two firm convictions. The first is that he will not cede the nation’s sovereignty to the pressure of illegal sanctions. But he has also indicated that dialogue and diplomacy is the way; that Venezuela is willing and ready to re-establish relations as long as they are based on mutual respect and an equal footing, writes Valdai Club expert Carlos Ron. The strategy…

An Army of Women is Building Venezuela’s Housing Revolution

Andreína Chávez Alava The women from Caracas’ Antímano Parish have trained themselves to build homes for their families as part of Venezuela’s Great Housing Mission, created by Hugo Chávez in 2011. (Andreína Chávez Alava / Venezuelanalysis) In Caracas, an army of self-trained women are working to build their own homes while they transform the reality around them….

Hugo Chávez’s Vision of a Communal Future Will Inspire Generations

Owen Schalk Hugo Chávez in uniform, 2010. Photo courtesy Presidencia de la Nación Argentina March 5, 2023 marks the ten-year anniversary of the death of legendary Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Only four days earlier, the Biden administration had renewed an executive order, issued by Barack Obama and continued under Donald Trump, labelling Venezuela “an unusual and…

Venezuela: Missing Hugo Chávez

Carlos Aznárez Ten years have passed without Comandante Hugo Chávez and his overwhelming drive to explain to the people what the Revolution to be built is all about. Yes, the Revolution with capital letters, which is not the same as appealing to the reformist or social-democratic shortcuts to which some try to accustom us. Because…

Alex Saab Case: Ruling Ignores Compelling Evidence to Support Immunity Claim

Femi Falana I have been involved with Alex Saab’s legal fight over his assertion of diplomatic immunity since its earliest stages. As is to be expected in a case whose very origins are founded on the interference in the domestic affairs of Venezuela by the United States, there have been many inexplicable judicial decisions since…

Undefeated Revolutions

On Latin America Review, Kawsachun News spoke to Francisco Dominguez, a researcher at the Middlesex University and the secretary of the Venezuelan Solidarity Campaign, who has long been a pillar of the movements in solidarity of Latin America, in the UK. Francisco, who is Chilean, spoke to Ollie about how Venezuela has managed to survive…