2025-12-25: Venezuela Roundup

So far today: 2025-12-26 05:24am GMT

aljazeera (2025-12-25). Photos: A Venezuelan family Christmas — from the US dream to poverty. aljazeera.com More than 7.7 million Venezuelans have fled economic collapse, but many are now returning home to face bleak realities.

aljazeera (2025-12-25). Venezuela frees dozens detained during protests against Maduro. aljazeera.com Families celebrate Christmas releases while calling for full freedom of detainees.

jborinoco (2025-12-25). Cabello Warns Trinidad Against Allowing US Attacks on Venezuela: "We Will Respond" orinocotribune.com The Vice President for Policy, Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, lamented the belligerent stance of Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar in facilitating the use of her country's territory by the US and its military apparatus to attack Venezuela. | "We hear this lady from Trinidad, who is still high on alcohol, allowing Trinidad to be used against Venezuela," he said in La Guaira state, where he inaugurated the Police Coordination Center of the Bolivarian National Police. | The minister for Interior, Justice and Peace also emphasized that, in the face of this hostile posture…

Editor (2025-12-25). When sanctions fail, power turns to seizure: The unraveling of the western coercive order. scheerpost.com By Peiman Salehi for the Cradle The recent escalation in US—Venezuela tensions is often framed narrowly in tactical terms: the seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker, new sanctions targeting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's inner circle, and a publicized diplomatic exchange with Moscow. Individually, these developments appear episodic. Together, they signal the decay of a coercive model that no longer delivers, …

Alba Ciudad, Orinoco Tribune. (2025-12-25). Venezuela Warns The World About US State-Sponsored Attacks And Piracy. popularresistance.org Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro sent a letter on Monday to the heads of state of Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as to the 194 nations that make up the United Nations General Assembly. The document, read by Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil from the Yellow House in Caracas, warns of an escalation of aggression by the US government that threatens to destabilize the security of the entire region and the international legal order. | The letter's central complaint focuses on the US military's so-called "Operation Southern Spear," a naval and air deployment that includes the presence of nuclear submari…

Staff (2025-12-25). President Maduro: Overwhelming Support Against US Imperialism Despite UNSC Stalemate (+Iran). orinocotribune.com Caracas ( "The Security Council is providing overwhelming support to Venezuela and the right to free navigation and free trade," said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a televised event this Tuesday, December 23, at the Poliedro de Caracas, referring to US acts of piracy against oil tankers. He reiterated that "no one will be able to…

Anti-Fascist Conference for the Sovereignty of Peoples (2025-12-25). Brazil: Global antifascist forum a strategic space for struggle against the far right and imperialism (plus statement: Reject US aggression on Venezuela). links.org.au The Second Meeting of the International Committee projected the 2026 Antifascist Conference as a strategic space for unity, solidarity, and struggle against fascism and imperialism.

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies, CODEPINK. (2025-12-25). Who's The Real Outlaw At Sea? popularresistance.org The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific under the banner of "drug enforcement," killing over 100 people whose identities the U.S. has obscured. At the same time, the Trump administration has threatened a naval blockade of Venezuela—a sovereign country with which the United States is not at war. | How can Washington claim the right to seize or blow up vessels, disrupt maritime trade, and kill civilian boaters—while bombing Yemen and condemning it…

UMMID (2025-12-25). Nobel Foundation sued over Peace Prize to Venezuela's Opposition Leader. ummid.com WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint against the Nobel Foundation for awarding the 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuela's Opposition Leader Maria Corina Machado.

Rameen Siddiqui (2025-12-25). Moscow Calls U.S. Actions in Caribbean "Piracy and Banditry" moderndiplomacy.eu NEWS BRIEF Russia has sharply escalated its rhetoric against the United States, accusing Washington of reviving "piracy and banditry" in the Caribbean Sea through its blockade of Venezuela. The statement, which expressed hope in President Trump's "pragmatism" to avoid disaster, underscores Moscow's firm support for Nicolás Maduro and positions the crisis as a flashpoint in …

aljazeera (2025-12-25). US will focus on exerting economic pressure on Venezuela: Report. aljazeera.com A US official told Reuters that Washington will focus on targeting Venezuela oil in lieu of 'military options'.

Jessica Corbett (2025-12-25). Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org The journalist who initially revealed that President Donald Trump's administration killed shipwrecked survivors of its first known boat bombing reported Tuesday that the admiral in charge consulted with a US military lawyer before ordering another strike on the two alleged drug traffickers who were clinging to debris in the Caribbean Sea. Just days after Trump announced the September 2… |

Dairon Osvaldo Caballero Heredia (2025-12-25). La educación cubana en el 2025: logros y desafíos. radiohc.cu El 2025 fue otro año crucial para la educación en Cuba. Los logros alcanzados en este sector estratégico muestran la voluntad del país de perfeccionar y avanzar a pesar de los desafíos. | La cobertura docente y la matrícula fueron garantizadas en todos los niveles educativos desde la primaria hasta la universidad, con especial atención a las zonas rurales y comunidades vulnerables. Una expresión del carácter gratuito, inclusivo, universal y equitativo de la enseñanza en la nación caribeña. | El anhelo de una formación integral se continuó consolidando a través del Tercer Perfeccionamiento del Sistema Educativo. E…

United World International (2025-12-25). China/United States, Latin America and the Caribbean: The people have the floor. unitedworldint.com Main points of the recently published third Document on China's Policy towards Latin America and the Caribbean By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein ≠As if by the whims of life and unplanned adjustments of history, at the very moment that Trump was threatening Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Marco Rubio was making clear his conviction …

Yaquelín de la Rosa (2025-12-25). Resumen año 2025, Guantánamo. radiohc.cu Guantánamo, la provincia más oriental de Cuba, ubicada a 960 kilómetros de la ciudad de la Habana, destaca por sus riquezas y singularidades culturales, históricas y naturales. | Entre el mar, las montañas y ríos, tierra de café, cacao y coco, cuna de importantes personalidades y expresiones músico danzarías, es un territorio donde convergen los rasgos identitarios de los grupos emigrantes españoles, chinos, franceses y caribeños, entre otros que conforman la identidad guantanamera. | Desde esta provincia, distinguida por un devenir económico y social, ofrecemos una panorámica informativa del año 2025. | Este ter…

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