2025-10-22: Venezuela Roundup

So far today: 2025-10-23 03:37am GMT

Ryan Black (2025-10-22). Tensions In Latin America Rise As U.S. Threatens Venezuela Colombia. progressivehub.net AMY GOODMAN, GUILLAUME LONG, AND MANUEL ROZENTAL | DEMOCRACY NOW!

jborinoco (2025-10-22). Here's What You Need to Know About the Upcoming National Popular Consultation. orinocotribune.com In this regard, the president emphatically called on "all residents to vote on their grassroots community projects to further strengthen direct democracy." The initiative seeks to deepen citizen participation in decisions related to local development, giving communities a central role in identifying and prioritizing their needs. | He added that Venezuela holds four communal elections every three months "to allocate resources." He also noted that on the 13th anniversary of the "Strike at the Helm" speech by the late Comandante Hugo Chávez, the government has consolidated 5,336 communal circuits and 3,652 communes,…

Editor (2025-10-22). Trump Orders CIA To Attack Venezuela: US Military Kills Innocent People in War Based on Lies. scheerpost.com In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we're doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible By Ben Norton / 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…

jborinoco (2025-10-22). UN Experts: US Violates Venezuela's Sovereignty. orinocotribune.com "The United States' covert actions and threats to use armed force against the Venezuelan government violate Venezuela's sovereignty and the United Nations Charter," independent UN experts stated Tuesday, Oct. 21. | In a joint statement, George Katrougalos, expert on the promotion of a democratic international order, and UN special rapporteurs Ben Saul (on counterterrorism) and Morris Tidball-Binz (on extrajudicial executions) declared: "The long history of external interventions in Latin America must not be repeated." | In August, the US began a military deployment in the southern Caribbean, ostensibly to combat…

WW editors (2025-10-22). Stop U.S. attack on Venezuela! workers.org October 19. During the past week Washington escalated its attack on Venezuela. Trump publicly authorized the CIA to intervene inside Venezuela. Admiral Alvin Holsey, a 37-year Black U.S. Navy officer and commander of the eight warships Trump ordered to the Caribbean, resigned his command. It was after only one year . . . |

eng.belta.by (2025-10-22). MFA: Belarus condemns aggressive actions creating tension in Latin America. eng.belta.by The third round of Belarusian-Venezuelan ministerial consultations was held in Minsk on 22 October.

Binoy Kampmark (2025-10-22). The Great Narco Pretext: Trump Readies for Regime Change in Venezuela. counterpunch.org Since the start of September, the Trump administration has busied itself with striking boats in international waters stemming from Venezuelan and possibly Colombian waters. Their mortal offence: allegedly carrying narcotics cargo destined for consumers in the United States. A few days following the first strike on September 2, President Donald Trump stated in a War

Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. (2025-10-22). As Trump Wages War On The Caribbean, Its Peoples Rise To Defend Peace. popularresistance.org Two Trinidadian fishermen were among the six victims of the US military's fifth airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean. The White House again claims the boat was linked to drug trafficking, but has not provided evidence. Since the October 14 attack, Trump has confirmed three other strikes, raising the death count of what many are calling "extrajudicial killings" of Caribbean people by the US to at least 30, since the aggression began in September. | Lenore Burnley, the mother of one of the Trinidadian victims, identified as Chad Joseph, assured local media outlet Guardian News that her son was not involved in drugs…

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