(2025-12-14). U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker: The Return of Isolationism. moderndiplomacy.eu U.S. Ramps Up Pressure On December 11, 2025 (local time), the U.S. Navy seized a Venezuelan oil tanker, a development that underscores the growing risk of a full-scale confrontation. President Donald Trump confirmed the incident: "We just seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela—a very large tanker, in fact the largest ever—and more …
(2025-12-14). Venezuela: Casting off Illusions, Preparing for Struggle. orinocotribune.com By Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Network — Dec 10, 2025 | Drawing on a history of resistance, Afro-Venezuelan organizations are mobilizing their communities to meet the threat of military action by the Trump administration and calling on the people of the U.S. to act on behalf of human rights. | The Afro-Venezuelan Organizations Network (ROA) and the Regional Articulation of Afrodescendants of Latin America and the Caribbean (ARAAC), Afrodescendant organizations born from anti-imperialist social change processes and anti-neocolonial struggles at the dawn of the twenty-first century, carry the dignity and sov…
(2025-12-14). Why the US is targeting Venezuela. aljazeera.com Historian Alan McPherson tells Marc Lamont Hill how the US is carrying out a regime change campaign in Venezuela.
(2025-12-14). Every Voting Tech Hack Washington Blamed on Venezuela Was Invented in Ohio. orinocotribune.com By Gloria Guillo — Dec 9, 2025 | Every voting tech hack that Washington claims was "invented in Venezuela" was discovered, demonstrated, and documented in the United States years — sometimes decades —before Smartmatic even existed. Full Stop. | With President Trump's false narco-trafficking claim boomeranging back and re-exposing the U.S. governments
(2025-12-14). Economics Expert Katiuska López: Venezuela Is Undergoing a Total Functional Transformation in Its Economy. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro recently highlighted the role of the National Council for Productive Economy in driving the growth of a new, self-sustaining economy. | During a meeting on Friday, December 13, which brought together the government, the banking sector, and representatives of the country's main business chambers, he presented the year-end gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast of 9%, surpassing the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) projections and marking 18 consecutive quarters of sustained economic growth. | The president emphasized the urgency of "fine-tuni…
(2025-12-14). Who's The Dictator? Venezuela's Maduro Or Ukraine's Zelenskyy. popularresistance.org Within the narrow spectrum of establishment punditry, "dictator" functions as a term of opprobrium reserved for governments Washington designates as enemies. By this measure, Maduro is cast as the dictator, while Zelenskyy is sanctified as democratic. | Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick, wrote about a democracy "double standard" in 1979. A Democrat turned anti-communist neoconservative, she formulated a convenient rhetorical distinction. The so-called Kirkpatrick Doctrine supported "authoritarian" traditional dictatorships and opposed leftist "totalitarian regimes."
(2025-12-14). President Maduro Calls US Seizure Of Oil Tanker Act Of Piracy. popularresistance.org Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro described the detention of an oil tanker seized by US military personnel in the Caribbean Sea on Wednesday as an act of piracy. On Thursday night, he reported that the crew was abducted and is missing, a circumstance referred to in human rights terms as a forced disappearance. | "Yesterday, they committed an absolutely criminal and illegal act when they carried out a military assault, kidnapping, and robbery—like pirates of the Caribbean—of a merchant, commercial, civilian, private vessel. A vessel of peace, which was attacked as it was about to enter the Atlantic,…
(2025-12-14). Day Two Of International People's Assembly For Sovereignty And Peace. popularresistance.org Caracas, Venezuela — On December 10, thousands of delegates from over 50 countries gathered into the Venezuelan military club for the second day of the International People's Assembly for Sovereignty and Peace of Our Americas. | The theme of unity was still present throughout the second day of the conference. | Hundreds of delegates conversed with each other throughout the club before the start of the event. The U.S. delegation brought out a banner reading "No war on Venezuela campaign! Stop the wars at home and abroad!"