2025-12-05: Venezuela Roundup

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Devin B. Martinez (2025-12-05). Resistance builds within the United States against Trump's drive to war with Venezuela. peoplesdispatch.org The US government has continued to accelerate its drive to war with Venezuela. While rumors circulate about phone calls and possible talks between US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in tandem, the US head of state has continued to launch bizarre and illegal threats and accusations against the South American nation. On Saturday, November 29, Trump

John Catalinotto (2025-12-05). Italian workers' general strike backs Palestine, Venezuela. workers.org On Nov. 28 following a call by the grassroots union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), Italian workers held a 24-hour general strike that limited airline flights and train travel within Italy and disrupted work. The next day many strikers joined the mass demonstration in Rome for the International Day of . . . |

Caitlin Scialla (2025-12-05). Trump's War on 'Narcoterrorism' Is a Smokescreen. progressive.org The Trump Administration's recent bombings off the coast of Venezuela signal a return to Cold War-era military aggression.

Martha Rios (2025-12-05). Cubanos rinden tributo a Fidel en noveno aniversario de su sepelio. radiohc.cu Miles de cubanos acudieron este jueves hasta el monolito que atesora las cenizas del líder histórico de la Revolución cubana, Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016), para rendirle tributo, a nueve años de su sepelio en el cementerio Santa Ifigenia, de Santiago de Cuba. | Desde la Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Antonio Maceo Grajales, transitaron por la Avenida Patria y llegaron hasta el camposanto, como reedición de la peregrinación popular que el 4 de Diciembre de 2016, acompañó las exequias del Comandante en su último trayecto. | Jóvenes, estudiantes, militares y civiles, combatientes de la Revolución cubana y el p…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2025-12-05). "Kill Everybody" : War Crimes and Pete Hegseth's Lust for Blood. globalresearch.ca Pete Hegseth, the soap opera-styled US Secretary of Defense, sports a questionable sanity. His behaviour before generals is the stuff of low comedy. His mania about sending narco-traffickers making passage on the sea from Venezuela to a watery grave …

JAY (2025-12-05). Tidbits-Dec. 4-Reader Comments: No War on Venezuela; Hegseth Murder in the Caribbean; Mass Deportation Is NOT Deportation; Everyone Is Talking About Affordability; Peace in Ukraine & Peace in Europe; New Unreleased Song by John Lennon; Lots More… portside.org Tidbits-Dec. 4-Reader Comments: No War on Venezuela; Hegseth Murder in the Caribbean; Mass Deportation Is NOT Deportation; Everyone Is Talking About Affordability; Peace in Ukraine & Peace in Europe; New Unreleased Song by John Lennon; Lots More… |

Ed Newman (2025-12-05). Venezuela leads UN meeting against sanctions and denounces their use as weapons of war. radiohc.cu More than a third of humanity, encompassing more than 76 countries, has its right to development "strangled" by illegal policies that can only be described as part of a "calculated campaign of maximum cruelty," denounced Venezuela's representative to the UN, Samuel Moncada, this Thursday, December 4. | On the occasion of the first commemoration of the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, and on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, Moncada described these practices as "weapons of economic warfare" and a "systematic attack on the right to development."

News Desk, The Cradle. (2025-12-05). US Lawmakers File Resolution To Block Trump's War In Venezuela. popularresistance.org US lawmakers filed a resolution on 3 December that would block a US military attack on Venezuela unless it can win congressional approval. | The move, initiated by a group of Democratic and Republican Senators, came in response to repeated statements by US President Donald Trump in recent days claiming that a land invasion of the Latin American nation to combat drug traffickers would begin "very soon." | The president claims, without evidence, that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro heads a criminal cartel trafficking drugs by boat to the US.

Martha Rios (2025-12-05). Parlamento cubano llama a preservar la paz de América Latina y el Caribe. radiohc.cu La Comisión de Relaciones Internacionales de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de Cuba (Parlamento) llamó este jueves a los ciudadanos de América Latina y el Caribe, y de los Estados Unidos, a actuar de forma oportuna y decididamente en favor de preservar la región como Zona de Paz. | El reclamo toma en cuenta el actual despliegue militar estadounidense en el mar Caribe, donde ya son decenas las personas muertas por ataques perpetrados por las fuerzas norteamericanas contra embarcaciones en el área, hechos que califican como ejecuciones extrajudiciales que violan el Derecho Internacional. | A continuación, e…

WSWS (2025-12-05). Video of September 2 killing showed US massacred "shipwrecked" people, House committee leaders say. wsws.org U.S. Representatives Jim Himes and Adam Smith said Thursday that the full video of the September 2 missile strike that killed 11 people in the Caribbean showed that two "shipwrecked individuals" were "killed by the United States military."

Kevin Martin (2025-12-04). There They Go Again in Venezuela. fpif.org Mark Twain allegedly quipped, "God created war so Americans would learn geography." Whether or not he actually said that, it would be a good test—for the world's mightiest military power to be prevented from waging war if a majority of Americans failed to find the alleged enemy on a world map. | This should not need to be said, but the United States has no legal authority to attack Venezuela (or Iran, Sudan, Somalia, or any other country). Nor does it have the legal right to engage in covert action to overthrow any government, including that of Venezuela. Should the United States do so, it will be opposed b…

Dr.Nadia Helmy (2025-12-04). Converging Ideologies: China and Venezuela's Strategic Alignment Amid US Escalation. moderndiplomacy.eu China rejected US President Donald Trump's declaration that Venezuelan airspace was "completely closed," a move Beijing considered a "colonial threat" to Venezuelan national sovereignty and inconsistent with international law and the principles of the United Nations. This current US policy in Venezuela aims to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to step down and resign. President …

A a (2025-12-04). World's most tyrannical government wants to free Venezuela from tyranny. strategic-culture.su By Caitlin JOHNSTONE | Join us on , , and . | Contact us: | If the US empire wants to make the world less tyrannical, its first and only…

Staff (2025-12-04). Maduro comenta detalles de su conversación con Donald Trump. cubadebate.cu El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, comentó este miércoles detalles de la conversación telefónica ´respetuosa y cordial ª sostenida con su homólogo estadounidense, Donald Trump, ocurrida hace aproximadamente diez días. El mandatario venezolano abogó por el diálogo de Estado a Estado.

Ed Newman (2025-12-04). Trump's Misdeeds: Who Will Judge Them? radiohc.cu By Hedelberto López Blanch* / Special Collaboration for Resumen Latinoamericano. | The arbitrary and criminal actions of convicted President Donald Trump are long and seemingly endless, as reflected in several articles by researchers and media outlets. | One of the latest actions demonstrating Trump's innate arrogance was his pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned in the United States for drug trafficking and serving a 45-year sentence, while at the same time threatening to bombard Venezuela with false accusations of being a narco-state. | Last year, Hernández was convicted by New…

en.mehrnews (2025-12-04). Maduro confirms 'cordial' phone conversation with Trump. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 04 (MNA) — The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, reveals a 10-day-old phone conversation with Donald Trump, calling it "respectful" and even "cordial."

Ed Newman (2025-12-04). Hegseth says he did not see survivors of first U.S. boat strike, insisting he's a busy man didn't stick around to watch. radiohc.cu U.S. Defense Secretary — or rather Secretary of War — Pete Hegseth is attempting to distance himself from the first U.S. airstrike on September 2 that targeted two shipwrecked men who had survived an earlier U.S. strike on a boat the Pentagon says was carrying drugs, without providing evidence. | Legal experts say the strike was without a doubt a war crime. Last week, The Washington Post reported Hegseth had given a verbal order to "kill everybody" on the boat. | Hegseth spoke Tuesday during a White House Cabinet meeting. He said: "I watched that first strike live. As you can imagine, at the Departmen…

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