(2025-10-21). On Anniversary of Chávez's 'Strike at the Helm' Speech, President Maduro Touts 20,000 Communal Projects. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( Through social media, Maduro recalled that Chávez entrusted him with the most important mission of Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution. "At that crucial moment, he entrusted me with the Revolution's most important mission, saying 'Nicolás, I entrust the communes to you as my own life.' That gesture was an act o…
(2025-10-21). Brazil's MST Will Organize Brigades To Support Venezuela. popularresistance.org The national leader of Brazil's Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST), Joà£o Pedro Stédile, announced that popular movements across Latin America are working in coordination to send brigades of activists to Venezuela in solidarity with the country's government and people, amid growing threats of a possible US military intervention. | "We, as movements in Latin America, are holding meetings and consultations to organize, as soon as possible, internationalist brigades of activists from each of our countries to go to Venezuela and stand alongside the government and the Venezuelan people," said Stédile in an i…
(2025-10-21). Another Regime Change War is Coming. counterpunch.org 
Whether he has done so wittingly or unwittingly, President Trump has backed himself into a corner with respect to Venezuela. After amassing a formidable armada of military forces in the Caribbean off Venezuelan shores and having killed some 24 suspected U.S. drug-law violators on the high seas, Trump has now effectively committed himself to initiating
(2025-10-21). The Likely Consequences Of A US War On Venezuela. popularresistance.org Funny thing about war: it is relatively easy to start. An insult here. A lie there. A "false flag" as a casus belli there, and shots, bombs, missiles ensue…and destruction and deaths follow until there is some sort of "victory". However, when the odds are stacked against a much smaller opponent that is facing an overwhelmingly larger foe, then "victory" will not appear straightforward, or even clear. It will be messy. | This is the case of Venezuela. The USA thinks its technological superiority will allow it to subdue the Venezuelan government and people: in other words, bomb them into submission.
(2025-10-21). Will there be a U.S. war against Latin America? fightbackbetter.com Every day, it seems, there is a new escalation between Donald Trump of the U.S. and Gustavo Petro of Colombia. For a few weeks, since the UN meeting in New York, it seemed only to be a war of words, but now that all seems to be changing. | Already 6 boats on their way to or from Venezuela, in international waters, have been bombed by the US, who each time claims that the boats held "narcotraffickers" and that was the US motivation to strike the boats. Trouble is that no evidence was ever produced, not the first, second, third, fourth, fifth or sixth time, and these attacks by the US are illegal under internati…
(2025-10-21). Amid tension between Venezuela and the US, Lula criticizes "foreign interventions in Latin America" peoplesdispatch.org President Luiz Inácio da Silva said on Monday, October 20, that foreign interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean could cause "greater damage than what is intended to be avoided" amid the During his speech at the ceremony to hand over credentials to ambassadors at the Itamaraty Palace, Lula did not directly mention Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro or US President Donald Trump, but said that maintaining peace in a region…
(2025-10-21). U.S. Attempts to Topple Leftist Governments in Venezuela. Regime Change in Latin America. globalresearch.ca If a question is asked—what has the USA done to topple leftist governments in Venezuela during the 21st century, the answer would be: almost everything. What is more, at this moment it appears determined to take this further. Apart …
(2025-10-21). Friday 10/24: Rally at SFLC to Demand Labor Boycott of Israel & Against War on Venezuela. indybay.org San Francisco Labor Council | 1188 Franklin St. | San Francisco…
(2025-10-21). David Schraeger: Oct 18 Princeton NO KINGS rally for Resistencia en Acción New Jersey Interjects Opposition to US War Upon Venezuela. fightbackbetter.com 
This editor has known David Schraeger since 1980s when we were both engaged in the struggle to end US aid…
(2025-10-21). Pope Leo XIV Canonized First Venezuelan Saints, President Maduro Condemns Cardinal Porras' Sabotage. orinocotribune.com On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV canonized seven new saints of the Catholic Church, including the first two Venezuelan saints: Dr. José Gregorio Hernández and Mother Carmen Rendiles. The canonization mass celebrated in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican, was attended by over 55,000 people. There, the Pope said that "material, cultural, scientific, and artistic goods" lose meaning if there is no faith, and highlighted the testimony of the new saints, who have been able to "keep the lamp of faith burning." | He also recalled the importance of prayer, comparing it to the breath that sustains the body's life, and warned against…
(2025-10-21). Trump Orders CIA To Attack Venezuela. popularresistance.org The United States is waging war on Venezuela. This is not a hypothetical; it is happening. | The Donald Trump administration is using extreme violence to try to overthrow Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro. | The US military has killed dozens of Venezuelans in strikes on boats in international waters without charge or trial. UN experts have publicly condemned these attacks as "extrajudicial executions" that violate international law. | It is not only Venezuelans who have been executed by the US military. Among the victims of these illegal US attacks have been fishermen who were citizens of Colombia and Trinidad…
(2025-10-21). President Petro: Colombia's Free Trade Agreement With US 'Suspended,' Ambassador Recalled. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( "The FTA is suspended de facto and by unilateral decision of the US government," Petro stated on hi…