2025-11-16: Venezuela Roundup

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Yves Engler (2025-11-16). NDP Policy on US Overthrow of Governments? Members Need To Know. orinocotribune.com By Yves Engler — Nov 13, 2025 | NDP MPs and party leadership candidates are more cautious than Paris and London in challenging Trump's war on Venezuela. Even the admiral in charge of the US violence appears more willing to buck the Donald. | On Tuesday the largest aircraft carrier in the world, USS Gerald Ford, arrived in the Caribbean as part of Trump's bid to overthrow Venezuela's government. The US has also sent other naval vessels, B-1 bombers and thousands of troops to intimidate, including special forces flying helicopter patrols from the warships along the Venezuelan coast. Trump has also empowered th…

en.mehrnews (2025-11-16). US to send world's largest aircraft carrier to Caribbean. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (MNA) — The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, will arrive in the northern Caribbean on Sunday as tensions with Venezuela grow, according to a US military official.

Fight Back! News. (2025-11-16). Veterans, Activists Protest Air Command Center Against War On Venezuela. popularresistance.org Tucson, AZ — Three progressive Veterans organizations and others joined the Tucson Anti-War Committee outside the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on Veterans Day, November 11, to protest the Trump administration's war escalations on Venezuela. The group of nearly two dozen protesters received many more supportive honks from passing cars than in previous years — a sign that the tide has shifted as more Americans are fed up with the endless war machine. | With signs reading "No blood for oil" and "Hands off Venezuela," the group heard from veterans and anti-war organizers.

Staff (2025-11-16). Venezuela Repatriates 577 Migrants from US, Surpassing 17,000 Returnees Amid Ongoing US Military Aggression. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( Flight number 86 of the Return to the Homeland Plan landed on Friday, November 14, carrying 298 nationals deported from El Paso, Texas, United States. This group consisted of 240 men, 47 women, and 11 minors. Venezuelan officials mistakenly

mforinoco (2025-11-16). Maduro Marches With Communal Youth Ahead of Popular Consultation as Trump Considers Venezuela Land Strikes. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's communal movement rallied with Maduro in Caracas while the US escalates military planning in the region. | Mexico City, Mexico, November 14, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro joined thousands of members of Venezuela's Communal Youth Committees on the streets of western Caracas for a march Thursday as a show of support for the country's communal movement and for an upcoming popular consultation. | Venezuela's organized communities will vote on November 23 for selected local initiatives that will receive financial support from the state, the fourth such consultation…

en.mehrnews (2025-11-16). Iran,Venezuela friendship, solidarity remain resilient: Envoy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (MNA) — Iran and Venezuela have inked 299 agreements, Venezuelan envoy to Tehran said, adding that the friendship and solidarity between these nations remain resilient and these relations continue to deepen.

News Desk, The Cradle. (2025-11-16). US Announces Operation 'Southern Spear' To Destabilize Venezuela. popularresistance.org US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on 14 November the launch of a US military operation in Latin America, claiming to target "narco-terrorists" as part of its broader campaign to destabilize Venezuela. | "Today, I'm announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR. Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people," Hegseth wrote in a post on X. | "The Western Hemisphere is America's neighborhood — and we will protect it," he claimed.

Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. (2025-11-16). What Is Really Happening In Venezuela? popularresistance.org Venezuela is very divided politically, but in general, the Bolivarian Revolution initiated by previous President Hugo Chávez and continued by current President Nicolás Maduro still has a lot of support from poor and working-class Venezuelans. Most rich people and elites are pro-US and anti-government. Many of them have left the country, but there are still some in Venezuela (especially in wealthy areas like Chacao). | In Venezuela, most people are tired of political conflict and violence, and they simply want stability. The right-wing opposition does not have many active supporters inside the country. Whenever th…

en.mehrnews (2025-11-16). Achieving justice prerequisite for real peace in Gaza: Maduro. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 16 (MNA) — Venezuelan President‚Äå Nicolas Maduro emphasizes full support for Palestinian ‚rights and the necessity of justice against crimes and genocide in the Gaza Strip.

Staff (2025-11-16). US Escalates Caribbean Destabilization with 20th Strike, Operation Southern Spear, and Trinidad Drills. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( "At the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization," r…

Stavroula Pabst (2025-11-15). The US's Top Military Contractors Are Cashing In on Caribbean Operations. truthout.org As fears mount that U.S. strikes against so-called "narco-terrorists" in the Caribbean could escalate into full-scale war with Venezuela, weapons makers are well positioned to benefit from the unprecedented U.S. military build-up in the region, not seen on such a scale in decades, and continues unabated. Currently, key naval vessels such as guided-missile destroyers equipped with the Aegis… |

Megan Russell, Michelle Ellner, Counter Punch. (2025-11-15). The US War On China, Venezuela, And The International Left. popularresistance.org Everywhere you look, the United States is at war— at home, through military occupation of cities, institutional violence, and state-sanctioned kidnappings, and abroad, through economic coercion, proxy warfare, and endless intervention. In times like these, when it is far too easy to be overwhelmed by the inexhaustible nature of the war machine, we must remember that these are not separate crises, but different fronts of the same struggle. And to resist one is to resist them all. | The enemy, in every case, is U.S. imperialism.

Staff (2025-11-15). Red en Defensa de la Humanidad alerta sobre la Operación Lanza del Sur y sus riesgos para Venezuela. cubadebate.cu La Red de Intelectuales y Artistas en Defensa de la Humanidad advierte que esta acción, presentada bajo el pretexto de combatir el narcotráfico, constituye una peligrosa escalada militar que amenaza con desencadenar una confrontación directa contra Venezuela, con graves consecuencias para la estabilidad geopolítica regional y mundial.

Editor (2025-11-15). White House Insiders Knew of 2020 Venezuela Coup in Advance, Files Show. scheerpost.com Documents released by a federal court provide new and disturbing details of Trump associates' attempt to orchestrate a coup against a government they clearly did not understand. This is an unprecedented look at the players and their plots — from terrorism to false flags — that may inform the looming US military assault on Venezuela.

Martha Rios (2025-11-15). Venezuela: Presidente Maduro afirma que agresión de EE.UU. es contra toda la humanidad. radiohc.cu El presidente de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro clausuró este viernes el Encuentro de Juristas en Defensa del Derecho Internacional, celebrado en Caracas del 13 al 14 de noviembre, con el objetivo de reafirmar el papel del Derecho Internacional como pilar de la paz, la soberanía y la cooperación entre Estados. | Convocado por el Consejo Nacional por la Soberanía y la Paz de Venezuela, el evento reunió a 100 académicos, expertos y jurisconsultos del más alto nivel de 34 países, en medio de la amenaza militar que Estados Unidos cierne sobre la República Bolivariana desde hace casi cuatro meses. | En su alocución, el jef…

scorinoco (2025-11-15). Russia Advises US Not to Destabilize Venezuela and Caribbean. orinocotribune.com Russia hopes that the United States will not take any measures that would destabilize the situation in Venezuela and the Caribbean, according to Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. | "We hope that no measures will be taken that could lead to the destabilization of the situation in the Caribbean and around Venezuela, and that everything is done in accordance with international law, even though international law is currently in a lamentable state in many parts of the world," he

en.mehrnews (2025-11-15). Maduro calls on US people to prevent war in Latin America. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 15 (MNA) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called on the American people to prevent war and maintain peace in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ed Newman (2025-11-15). Cuban foreign minister denounces U.S. lies and fabrications to justify militarization of the Caribbean. radiohc.cu Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez denounced on Friday that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is fabricating falsehoods before his allies in the Group of Seven (G7) to attribute alleged drug trafficking threats to Venezuela. | "These lies," the foreign minister emphasized on the X network, "are the only recourse used to justify a disproportionate and extraordinary military deployment, mobilized under false pretenses, with which he has carried out extrajudicial executions in international waters, in grave violation of International Law." | He also emphasized that the US official is invoking the two-hundred-yea…

en.mehrnews (2025-11-15). Washington conducts new attack on ship in Caribbean. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Nov. 15 (MNA) — The US military's 20th strike on a boat accused of transporting drugs has killed four people in the Caribbean Sea, the US military said Friday.

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