2025-12-15: Venezuela Roundup

So far today: 2025-12-15 09:04am GMT

Staff (2025-12-15). Declaración de la XXIV Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno del ALBA-TCP. cubadebate.cu Los Jefes de Estado del ALBA-TCP reafirmaron su compromiso con la integración regional, la solidaridad y la defensa de la soberanía. Condenaron enérgicamente el bloqueo de EE.UU. contra Cuba, las sanciones a Venezuela y Nicaragua, y el genocidio israelí en Gaza. Además, rechazaron el orden internacional excluyente.

Staff (2025-12-15). "El ALBA continuará siendo espacio esencial de solidaridad y digna resistencia" cubadebate.cu Intervención de Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, Primer Secretario del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba y Presidente de la República, en la XXV Cumbre de la Alianza Bolivariana para los pueblos de Nuestra América-Tratado de Comercio de los Pueblos.

mforinoco (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…

Juan Carlos Dominguez Taño (2025-12-14). Cuba and the Greek Orthodox Church strengthen ties. plenglish.com Havana, Dec 14 (Prensa Latina) Cuba and the Greek Orthodox Church are strengthening ties following President Miguel Diaz-Canel's reception of Archbishop Santiago, Exarch of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and the Caribbean.

aljazeera (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.

Orinoco Tribune. (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,…

Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. (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."

Bui Gia Ky (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 …

scorinoco (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…

202512150404 | f3 | 19 | 811 | 8428