(2025-12-12). Venezuela seeks withdrawal from International Criminal Court's Rome Statute. aljazeera.com The court has been investigating the government of President Nicolas Maduro for crimes against humanity since 2023.
(2025-12-12). Nobel Peace Prize Winner Who Wants the US To Attack Venezuela Says US Helped Her Escape. news.antiwar.com Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who wants the US to attack her country to oust President Nicolas Maduro, has traveled to Norway to receive her Nobel Peace Prize and said that she had help from the US to flee Venezuela. "Yes, we did get support from the United States' government," Machado said at …
(2025-12-12). Iran slams US Navy's seizure of Venezuelan oil tanker. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 12 (MNA) — Iran's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the US Navy's military intervention against a commercial vessel carrying Venezuelan oil near the country's coast, labeling the act as "state piracy."
(2025-12-12). Venezuelan Authorities Prevent Cardinal Porras From Traveling, Cancel Passport. eurasiareview.com By Andrés Henríquez | On Dec. 10 Venezuelan immigration police confiscated and invalidated the passport of Cardinal Baltazar Porras, the archbishop emeritus of Caracas, as he was preparing to travel to Bogotá, Colombia, from Simón Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetía. | According to the Grand Priory of the Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem in Venezuela, on Wednesday morning the cardinal "was subjected to humiliating treatment" by airport authorities under the government of Nicolas Maduro. | From Bogotá, Porras was scheduled to take a flight to Madrid and then travel to Toledo, wh…
(2025-12-12). UN finds Venezuela's National Guard committed crimes against humanity. devdiscourse.com Officials of Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) have committed serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity for more than a decade, according to a new report released by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
(2025-12-12). USA and Venezuela. Fighting a fantasy cartel with a spear. indybay.org The US government has put a bounty of fifty million US dollars on his head. Maduro is not a fugitive; he conducts his government business in full view of the public. The Cártel de los Soles — the Cartel of the Suns — does not exist; it is a figment of the US government's imagination…
(2025-12-12). Venezuelan president accuses the U.S. of piracy for oil theft: "Their mask has fallen off" radiohc.cu Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro denounced on Thursday the military assault, hijacking and theft of an oil tanker by the United States north of Trinidad and Tobago, as the vessel "entered the Atlantic." The president described this act as the beginning of a "new era of criminal naval piracy against the entire Caribbean."
(2025-12-12). Iran Denounces US Seizure Of Venezuelan Oil Tanker As 'Piracy In Caribbean'. eurasiareview.com The Iranian embassy in Caracas on Thursday condemned the United States' seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker off the South American country's coast, calling the operation "piracy in the Caribbean Sea" and a clear breach of international law. | The embassy said in a statement that the action violated fundamental global norms. | "The illegal move by the US government to seize a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea without any justified or legal reason constitutes a blatant violation of international laws and regulations, including the inviolable principle of freedom of the seas and navigation," it said. | "'
(2025-12-12). Activists in New York City denounce Trump's 'no-fly zone'. workers.org 
New York City December 10 — Antiwar activists in the United States held a news conference today to protest the illegal "no-fly zone" U.S. President Donald Trump ordered for Venezuela. The order had prevented many activists from attending a solidarity meeting in Caracas, Venezuela. From the tone of today's protest, . . . |
(2025-12-12). Obama's Powerpoint Death Parade Led To Trump's Venezuelan Killings. popularresistance.org 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 declared,…
(2025-12-12). Venezuela Charges Washington With 'Theft, Piracy'. popularresistance.org Venezuela has accused the US government of "blatant theft" and "piracy," following Washington's seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker off the Latin American country's coast on 10 December. | The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry strongly condemned what it said was a "blatant theft and an act of international piracy, publicly announced by the President of the US, who confessed to the assault on an oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea." | "Already in his 2024 campaign, [US President Donald Trump] openly stated that his objective has always been to keep Venezuelan oil without paying any consideration in return, making it clear th…
(2025-12-12). US Sanctions Six Companies Accused of Transporting Venezuelan Oil as It Prepares More Seizures. news.antiwar.com The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions targeting six companies it accused of transporting Venezuelan oil, as Reuters reported that the Trump administration is gearing up to seize more oil tankers. The US seizure of a tanker off the coast of Venezuela that was bound for Cuba on Wednesday marked a significant escalation of …
(2025-12-12). White House plans oil blockade of Venezuela in drive for regime change. wsws.org Reuters reported Thursday that the US has assembled a "target list" of tankers for seizure of oil tankers as the administration openly declares its intention to overthrow Maduro.
(2025-12-12). Presentan volumen sobre el surgimiento del béisbol en Cuba. radiohc.cu El libro 'El juego galante, béisbol y sociedad en La Habana (1861-1895)', del doctor Félix Julio Alfonso, fue presentado este jueves en la biblioteca Martí, de la central ciudad de Santa Clara. | El volumen, de más de 700 páginas, de la editorial Letras Cubanas, formó parte de la conferencia científica y eventos relacionados Identidad, Sociedad y Cultura, la historia compartida del béisbol en Cuba, el Caribe y Estados Unidos. | En el prólogo, Roberto González, de Yale University, señaló: En el juego galante hay amplia información sobre las publicaciones de la época, con fascinantes ilustraciones que incluyen fotos…
(2025-12-12). Defiende China soberanía latinoamericana frente a presiones de EEUU. cubadebate.cu El embajador de China en Cuba, Hua Xin, afirmó hoy que la nueva política de Beijing hacia América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) constituye la única respuesta global, concreta y oportuna a la Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional estadounidense. El diplomático señaló que el "Corolario Trump" reafirma una versión más agresiva de la doctrina Monroe.
(2025-12-11). Pirates of the Caribbean: U.S. seizes Venezuelan oil tanker. peoplesworld.org 
In a major move laying the groundwork for regime change in and war against Venezuela, President Donald Trump ordered the seizure Wednesday of a Venezuelan oil tanker near the coast of that country. The serious escalation of tensions in the region has been condemned by several U.S. lawmakers. Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., a member …
(2025-12-11). ALBA-TCP condemns U.S. act of piracy against Venezuelan oil tanker. radiohc.cu The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP) condemned the US government's action in attacking an oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea. The organization reaffirmed its full support for the people and government of Venezuela in the face of what it described as a "direct attack" on their sovereignty.
(2025-12-11). Cuba condemns act of piracy against Venezuelan oil tanker. plenglish.com "We reaffirm our support for the homeland of Bolivar and Chavez," he wrote. | For his part, the island's Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez, reiterated his rejection of the escalating aggression against the Bolivarian nation and clarified that this attack "contravenes the rules of free trade and freedom of navigation, in blatant violation of international law." | According to the statement issued by the Bolivarian government, this new and extremely serious step in the escalating aggression comes after the announcement of the US National Security Strategy, which seeks to reaffirm, 200 years later, the abominable M…