(2025-10-17). Venezuela alerts UN to imminent military threat amid US escalation. peoplesdispatch.org Hostility from Washington towards progressive governments in Caracas is not new, but the current administration has initiated an unprecedented escalation against the government and people of Venezuela.
(2025-10-17). China condemns US airstrikes in Caribbean, backs Venezuelan sovereignty. peoplesdispatch.org This week, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally expressed its opposition to
(2025-10-17). Venezuela Calls for UN Action After US Empire's 27 Extrajudicial Killings, Including Trinidadian Fishermen. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( The call for an inquiry, made by Venezuela's UN Ambassador Samuel Moncada this Thursday, October 16, follows an attack on October 14 "against civilians who were aboard a small boat stationary in the Caribbean Sea, [allegedly] a few miles off the Venezuelan coast," Moncada said. The US empire's War Department reported the murders without…
(2025-10-17). Sanctuary: Why Portland And Venezuela Are In Washington's Crosshairs. popularresistance.org Portland, Oregon was my sanctuary as a teenager. I was a weird kid, a label I mostly embraced. But being different in my hometown rural north Idaho was exhausting. When I needed to recharge myself, I would drive the nine hours to Portland to bask in the city that accepted me just as I was. | Maybe that is the Trump administration's problem with Portland today: it is literally a sanctuary city. | Oregon became the first state to pass a sanctuary bill in 1987. Thirty years later, Portland passed a sanctuary city resolution. These laws prohibit state and city officials, including police, from cooperating with federa…
(2025-10-17). Statement 2025: Stop U.S. aggression against Venezuela! workers.org 
This statement was issued by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition on Oct. 12, 2025. The Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition demands an end to U.S. aggression against Venezuela, which is on the brink of outright war. Any escalation in the violence against Venezuela will cause more suffering and deaths in the South American . . . |
(2025-10-17). Trump authorizes CIA regime change operations against Venezuela. wsws.org Trump did not equivocate in acknowledging his extraordinary escalation of US imperialist aggression in Venezuela and beyond.
(2025-10-17). Venezuela VP Debunks Miami Herald's Fake News on Treason (+President Maduro on Dailymotion). orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez debunked a fake news published by the US newspaper Miami Herald, calling it part of the "psychological warfare against the Venezuelan people." | "FAKE!! Another media outlet joining the garbage dump of psychological warfare against the Venezuelan people. They have no ethics or morals; they are exclusively for lies and carrion," Rodríguez Refuting Miami Herald's report of supposed internal divisions within chavismo, the vice president emphasized that the Bolivaria…
(2025-10-17). US carries out new 'drug' boat strike in Caribbean, as admiral resigns. aljazeera.com The latest strike comes a day after US President Trump confirmed he had authorised CIA operations in Venezuela.
(2025-10-17). President Trump Now Requires Strategic Bombers to 'Fight Venezuelan Drug Trade'. Oops. Venezuela Is Number One Worldwide in "Strategic Oil Reserves" globalresearch.ca The threat of …
(2025-10-17). Cuban president reaffirms solidarity and support for Venezuela. radiohc.cu Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, today expressed Cuba's solidarity with the people and government of Venezuela, in light of the recent approval by the United States government of covert CIA operations against the Bolivarian nation. | Through his official X account, the Cuban leader sent a message of support to the constitutional Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, and condemned the actions of the empire and its misguided leader. | "At a time when the empire and its misguided leader approve covert CIA operations aga…
(2025-10-17). Maria Corina Machado: Venezuela's Nobel Peace laureate in hiding. aljazeera.com Venezuela's opposition leader on life in hiding, and her movement's fight for transition and change.
(2025-10-17). Maduro blasts 'open conspiracy' as Trump confirms CIA directive to targeting Venezuela. tehrantimes.com Venezuela on Thursday stepped up its diplomatic push against Washington, formally asking the UN Security Council to declare recent U.S. strikes in the southern Caribbean illegal and to condemn what Caracas calls an unprecedented authorization for the CIA to carry out covert lethal operations against the country.
(2025-10-17). A Geopolitical Analysis of the Imperialist Buildup Against Venezuela: A Conversation With Ana Esther Ceceña. orinocotribune.com 
Natural resources and strategic alliances are important to understanding why Venezuela is in the eye of the storm. | Ana Esther Ceceña is a Mexican economist and geopolitical analyst known for her expertise in Latin American affairs. She serves as the director of the Latin American Observatory of Geopolitics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her scholarly work explores the dynamics of power, sovereignty, and resistance, with a focus on strategic resources and the global capitalist system. | In this interview, carried out in Caracas during the recent "Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and the Terr…
(2025-10-17). Presidente Díaz-Canel ratifica solidaridad y apoyo a Venezuela. radiohc.cu El primer secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y presidente de la República, Miguel Díaz-Canel expresó este jueves la solidaridad de su país con el pueblo y Gobierno de Venezuela, ante la reciente aprobación de operaciones encubiertas de la CIA contra la nación bolivariana por parte del Gobierno de Estados Unidos. | Mediante su cuenta oficial en X, el jefe de Estado dirigió un mensaje de apoyo al presidente constitucional venezolano, Nicolás Maduro, y condenó las acciones del imperio y su desatinado cabecilla. | En momentos en que el imperio y su desatinado cabecilla aprueban operaciones en…
(2025-10-17). President Maduro on CIA Operations in Venezuela: 'It Doesn't Surprise Us' (+México). orinocotribune.com Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has stated that it is no surprise that the government of the US empire has ordered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to intervene in Venezuela; what is surprising is that it has done so publicly for the first time. | "The US government decided to send the CIA to Venezuela," the president said this Thursday, October 16, "against the peace of Venezuela. They've always done so, but no previous US government has ever publicly stated that they sent the CIA to kill, overthrow, and destroy countries," he explained, at an event with workers and families belonging to the national sc…
(2025-10-17). Chief of US Southern Command Steps Down Amid Attacks Against Venezuela. orinocotribune.com Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the US Southern Command, resigned amid the unprecedented US military deployment in the southern Caribbean targeting Venezuela. | "It's been an honor to serve our nation, the American people and support and defend the Constitution for 37 years. Effective, 12 December 2025 I will retire from the US Navy," Holsey said in a Holsey, the first African American to lead the Southern Command, took office on November 8, 2024. Thus, he is departing…
(2025-10-17). Venezuela's Interior Minister: US Is Wrong to Think We Will be Defeated by 2 Bombs (+Peasant Militia). orinocotribune.com The minister for the Interior, Citizen Security, and Peace of Venezuela, Diosdado Cabello, stated that the Peasant Militia will defend the country, and although they carry machetes, they know how to use them at the appropriate moment. He made this comment during the swearing-in ceremony of the Bolivarian Peasant Force in the La Peñita sector of Carayaca, La Guaira state, on Thursday, October 16. | "These mountains are sacred. Anyone who dares to set foot in these sacred spaces will find a people ready to defend the homeland," he said. | "If anyone thinks that with two bombs Venezuelans will surrender, they are wr…
(2025-10-17). Venezuelan Coup Leader María Corina Machado Vows To Privatize Oil: US Corporations Will 'Make a Lot of Money'. orinocotribune.com 
By Ben Norton — Oct 16, 2025 | 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, a US government-funded far-right coup leader, vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil. US companies will "make a lot of money", she told Donald Trump Jr. in an interview. | The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was given to Machado has helped to lead numer…
(2025-10-17). Classified Operation? U.S. Warship Harbors Survivors After Caribbean Incident. moderndiplomacy.eu The U. S. military has rescued two survivors from a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean following a strike that killed two others. These survivors may become the first prisoners of war in President Trump's declared conflict against "narcoterrorists" from Venezuela. The Pentagon has not commented on this situation. The attacked vessel was likely a …
(2025-10-17). Venezuelan Coup Leader Maria Corina Machado Vows To Privatize Oil. popularresistance.org The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was given to María Corina Machado, a far-right, pro-war Venezuelan opposition leader who has been funded by the US government for more than two decades. | Machado has helped to lead numerous violent coup attempts in Venezuela, in 2002, 2014, 2017, 2019, and again today. | She is now at the center of the US government's regime-change war against Venezuela. | In an interview with Donald Trump Jr. in February 2025, Machado made it clear that she wants to privatize Venezuela's state-owned oil industry and sell off the South American nation's natural resources to US corporations.
(2025-10-17). More Than You Think: The Escalating Number of U.S. Strikes Off Venezuela's Coast. moderndiplomacy.eu The United States has confirmed conducting at least five military strikes on vessels near Venezuela, claiming they were involved in drug trafficking, resulting in the deaths of at least 27 individuals. A sixth strike occurred recently against a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean, where some crew members survived and are now being held on …
(2025-10-17). Imperial Double Standards: Warfare for Venezuela and Welfare for Argentina. counterpunch.org 
Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei's government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls "anarcho-capitalism." Western Hemispheric geopolitics reflect the weakening of US hegemony and an emerging multipolarity, especially with China's entry as a major regional trading
(2025-10-17). Trump's Military Escalation Against Venezuela Repeats the Iraq War Blueprint. counterpunch.org 
The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the "war on drugs," the United States is actively executing a blueprint for military intervention in Venezuela, employing lethal force and projecting power in a manner that legal institutions and regional leaders have condemned
(2025-10-17). Head of US Southern Command To Step Down Amid Strikes on Boats and Push Toward Venezuela Regime Change. scheerpost.com