Recently obtained documents show that in 2011, the US funded rock bands in Venezuela — through a group sympathetic to right-wing forces that later attempted a coup. Giving money to young musicians seems innocuous, but it’s part of a long history of US meddling in the democratic processes of countries to advance American interests.
Twenty-one members of Congress last week called for lifting US sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela, including most of the Squad. The pushback is needed: sanctions are a cruel economic weapon that hurts average people — and has spurred a surge of economic refugees.
Western journalists can't admit that Venezuela's opposition is neither democratic nor peaceful.
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.
Outrage over alleged Russian intervention in US elections has been widespread. But documents obtained by Jacobin reveal that the US has intervened in Venezuelan elections by training opposition forces to use Facebook against President Nicolás Maduro’s party.
US policy towards Venezuela is not motivated by a concern for democracy or human rights. And its arrogant intervention is making the country's humanitarian crisis even worse.
Only the Venezuelan sans culottes can save the Bolivarian Revolution.
The United States's sanctions against Venezuela continue to punish ordinary Venezuelans while deepening the country's political crisis. They need to end.
US intervention in Venezuela wouldn't just be a catastrophe for that country — it would be a disaster for neighboring Colombia too.
For Venezuela, the worst-case scenario of a US military intervention remains a potent threat. A long-time advisor to Hugo Chavez offers his thoughts on the country's crisis.
What's next for the Bolivarian Revolution?
As Venezuelans go to the polls this Sunday, the country faces a choice between deepening revolution and an elite-enforced rollback.
Whatever the outcome of today's Venezuelan election, the US has neither the right nor the moral standing to intervene.
Despite its progressive veneer, the Justin Trudeau government in Canada has supported anti-democratic actions in Bolivia, Haiti, Venezuela, and elsewhere in the Americas. When it comes to foreign policy, Trudeau isn’t much different than Trump.
The Venezuelan Right appears to be building the kind of mass movement that could reverse the gains of the Bolivarian Revolution.
It's really very simple: the US has absolutely no right to meddle in the affairs of Venezuela, in any way, shape, or form.
Socialists must stand resolutely against US imperialism. We also can't turn a blind eye to purportedly leftist states' suppression of political liberties that socialists around the world have fought and died for.
Trump's policy towards Venezuela has become increasingly aggressive in the run-up to tomorrow's elections.
Venezuelans will vote today in fair and transparent elections. But you wouldn’t know it from the US government and media.
As great powers abandon even the pretense of law, the undeclared war on Venezuela exposes a world ruled by extortion, collapse, and the redefinition of sovereignty.