2025-12-06: Venezuela Roundup

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James Bovard (2025-12-06). Obama's PowerPoint Death Parade Led To Trump's Venezuelan Killings OpEd. eurasiareview.com The Trump administration's killings of scores of Venezuelans are provoking outrage across the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, "We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists." President Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that was written years earlier by President Barack Obama. | In his 2017 farewell address, Obama boasted, "We have taken out tens of thousands of terrorists." Drone strikes increased tenfold under Obama, helping fuel anti—U.S. backlashes in several nations. | As he campaigned for the presidency in 2007, Sen. Barack Obama declar…

The Peoples Forum, Popular Resistance. (2025-12-06). Urgent Actions: On December 6, March Against A US War On Venezuela. popularresistance.org 22 years after the US went to war in Iraq based on lies, the Trump administration is preparing a major war against Venezuela. We must act now to stop this war before it starts. | Today, Trump promised land strikes would begin "very soon," has called for its airspace to be "closed," and terminated negotiations with Venezuela's government. These are all the signs of a full-scale regime change operation, which would be a catastrophe for the region. | The Trump Administration's repeated strikes in the Caribbean have shocked the world as brazen violations of international law.

Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. (2025-12-06). The Double Tap On Venezuela. popularresistance.org The first United States SEAL Team 6 air strike on a boat allegedly engaged in Venezuelan drug trafficking took place on September 2, 2025. All 11 people on board were killed. The Trump administration gleefully released video of the attack and exulted in its deadly success. Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War, bragged that he watched the air strike live and added, "We knew exactly who was in that boat." | Now, a U.S. aircraft carrier strike force sits off the coast of Venezuela. Trump has declared Venezuela a "no-fly zone," and U.S. radar systems have been installed in neighboring Trinidad and Tobago.

Mnar Adley, MintPress News. (2025-12-06). Sudan's War, UAE Gold, And The Rise Of Anti-Imperialist Alliances. popularresistance.org Even as the U.S. empire's gaze is turned towards Venezuela, it continues to meddle in Africa. Foreign intervention is fueling a bitter civil war in Sudan, the Trump administration is pushing a line about a genocide against Christians in Nigeria, with an eye on military intervention, and across the Sahel region, anti-imperialist forces continue to rise and organize, dreaming of a united, pan-African continent that will resist American imperialism and reject Israeli colonization. | Joining MintCast host Mnar Adley today to talk about the continent is Ahmed Kaballo. Ahmed is a British-Sudanese journalist and the CEO…

CRS (2025-12-06). Venezuela: Overview Of US Sanctions Policy Analysis. eurasiareview.com By Clare Ribando Seelke | Since 2005, the United States has imposed targeted sanctions on Venezuelan individuals and entities that have engaged in criminal, antidemocratic, or corrupt actions. U.S. sanctions have been imposed via both executive and congressional action. In response to increasing repression under President Nicolás Maduro, in power since 2013, the first Trump Administration expanded U.S. sanctions to include financial and sectoral sanctions, as well as sanctions on the Maduro government. The Biden Administration offered limited sanctions relief to try to incentivize Maduro to convene free and fa…

Roger D. Harris, Antiwar. (2025-12-06). US State Department Travel Warning On Venezuela. popularresistance.org Following his earlier threat that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's days are numbered, US President Donald Trump announced on social media he was closing Venezuelan airspace. He then immodestly proclaimed the "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, commending his nineteenth century predecessor for presciently envisioning "a superpower unlike anything the world had ever known." | On December 3, the US State Department followed suit by issuing an updated Venezuela Travel Advisory. The document is a masterpiece of geopolitical creative writing, where the main export of Venezuela is not oil but existential drea…

Caitlin Johnstone (2025-12-06). World's Most Tyrannical Government Wants to Free Venezuela From Tyranny. orinocotribune.com President Trump has been holding talks with top advisors this week regarding potential US attacks on Venezuela in order to bring about regime change in yet another oil-rich nation. | As the western political/media class frames Venezuela's President Maduro as a "dictator" who must urgently be removed from power, it is worth noting that any US military operation to remove him would be taking place directly against the will of the American public. A recent CBS News poll found that seventy percent of Americans "would oppose" the US taking military action against Venezuela. | So here we have the president of a nation…

Staff (2025-12-06). "The Struggle Continues:" President Maduro Delivers a Message in Portuguese to Brazil's People. orinocotribune.com

Staff (2025-12-06). Civilian Assassinations Reach 86 in US Military's Killing Spree. orinocotribune.com Caracas ( In a social media post, the US military wrote the strike was ordered by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. "On Dec. 4, at the direction of Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal ki…

ecns.cn (2025-12-06). Images of Epstein's private Caribbean island released. ecns.cn U.S. House Democrats on the Oversight Committee on Wednesday released photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein's home on the private Caribbean island, where the billionaire was accused of trafficking underage girls for sex.

Devin B. Martinez (2025-12-05). Resistance builds within the United States against Trump's drive to war with Venezuela. peoplesdispatch.org The US government has continued to accelerate its drive to war with Venezuela. While rumors circulate about phone calls and possible talks between US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, in tandem, the US head of state has continued to launch bizarre and illegal threats and accusations against the South American nation. On Saturday, November 29, Trump

Martha Rios (2025-12-05). Cubanos rinden tributo a Fidel en noveno aniversario de su sepelio. radiohc.cu Miles de cubanos acudieron este jueves hasta el monolito que atesora las cenizas del líder histórico de la Revolución cubana, Fidel Castro Ruz (1926-2016), para rendirle tributo, a nueve años de su sepelio en el cementerio Santa Ifigenia, de Santiago de Cuba. | Desde la Plaza de la Revolución Mayor General Antonio Maceo Grajales, transitaron por la Avenida Patria y llegaron hasta el camposanto, como reedición de la peregrinación popular que el 4 de Diciembre de 2016, acompañó las exequias del Comandante en su último trayecto. | Jóvenes, estudiantes, militares y civiles, combatientes de la Revolución cubana y el p…

News Desk, The Cradle. (2025-12-05). US Lawmakers File Resolution To Block Trump's War In Venezuela. popularresistance.org US lawmakers filed a resolution on 3 December that would block a US military attack on Venezuela unless it can win congressional approval. | The move, initiated by a group of Democratic and Republican Senators, came in response to repeated statements by US President Donald Trump in recent days claiming that a land invasion of the Latin American nation to combat drug traffickers would begin "very soon." | The president claims, without evidence, that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro heads a criminal cartel trafficking drugs by boat to the US.

John Catalinotto (2025-12-05). Italian workers' general strike backs Palestine, Venezuela. workers.org On Nov. 28 following a call by the grassroots union Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), Italian workers held a 24-hour general strike that limited airline flights and train travel within Italy and disrupted work. The next day many strikers joined the mass demonstration in Rome for the International Day of . . . |

Ed Newman (2025-12-05). Venezuela leads UN meeting against sanctions and denounces their use as weapons of war. radiohc.cu More than a third of humanity, encompassing more than 76 countries, has its right to development "strangled" by illegal policies that can only be described as part of a "calculated campaign of maximum cruelty," denounced Venezuela's representative to the UN, Samuel Moncada, this Thursday, December 4. | On the occasion of the first commemoration of the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, and on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations, Moncada described these practices as "weapons of economic warfare" and a "systematic attack on the right to development."

David Schultz (2025-12-05). Venezuela, History, and the Futile Quest for Regime Change. counterpunch.org Philosophers from Immanuel Kant to George Santayana warned that history repeats itself because we fail to heed its lessons. So it is with the Trump administration and its plan for regime change in Venezuela. Even if it succeeds in ousting Nicolás Maduro, the result will almost certainly mirror the failures of Afghanistan and Iraq under the Bush and Biden administrations.

WHYY (2025-12-05). Inside the Hidden Wonders of the Shrinking Arctic. whyy.org Over the course of 20 years, writer Neil Shea explored the awe-inspiring landscape of the Arctic. He saw narwhals poking their tusks above the water, herds of caribou moving across the tundra, and majestic white wolves raising their young. He documents this fragile beauty in his new book, "

WSWS (2025-12-05). Video of September 2 killing showed US massacred "shipwrecked" people, House committee leaders say. wsws.org U.S. Representatives Jim Himes and Adam Smith said Thursday that the full video of the September 2 missile strike that killed 11 people in the Caribbean showed that two "shipwrecked individuals" were "killed by the United States military."

Martha Rios (2025-12-05). Parlamento cubano llama a preservar la paz de América Latina y el Caribe. radiohc.cu La Comisión de Relaciones Internacionales de la Asamblea Nacional del Poder Popular de Cuba (Parlamento) llamó este jueves a los ciudadanos de América Latina y el Caribe, y de los Estados Unidos, a actuar de forma oportuna y decididamente en favor de preservar la región como Zona de Paz. | El reclamo toma en cuenta el actual despliegue militar estadounidense en el mar Caribe, donde ya son decenas las personas muertas por ataques perpetrados por las fuerzas norteamericanas contra embarcaciones en el área, hechos que califican como ejecuciones extrajudiciales que violan el Derecho Internacional. | A continuación, e…

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