Hugo Chavez

While the US government and media glorify Leopoldo López as a new MLK, the Venezuelan opposition leader collaborates with Colombia’s narco-affiliated, death squad-sponsoring former President Álvaro Uribe and his protegé Iván Duque. According to Western corporate media outlets and human rights groups, Venezuela’s far-right opposition leader Leopoldo López is a hallowed saint. The New York Times glorified López as the would-be “savior” of Venezuela, akin to none other than Martin Luther King Jr., while Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International […]

Max Blumenthal interviews former Ecuador President Rafael Correa, who was in Venezuela to observe its legislative elections and show support to a government under sustained economic and political attack by the US. Correa addresses issues ranging from the repression in his country under the watch of its outgoing neoliberal president, Lenin Moreno, to the persecution of Julian Assange and the role of a CIA contractor in targeting him and the Wikileaks founder. Blumenthal and Correa also discuss the prospect of […]

Maradona, le génie du FOOT 1/ Le but du siècle & la main de Dieu ! Les secrets du meilleur but de l'histoire | Maradona 1986 • Angleterre - Argentine 22 Juin 1986, ou le jour où Diego Maradona a marqué l'histoire du football mondial. 2/ Maradona, un gamin en or | ARTE •25 nov. 2020 ARTE Âgé de 60 ans, Diego Armando Maradona est décédé le 25 novembre 2020. ARTE diffuse un portrait de la légende du football, star absolue de l'Argentine, sacré jeune roi du (...)

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Maradona, le génie du FOOT 1/ Le but du siècle & la main de Dieu ! Les secrets du meilleur but de l'histoire | Maradona 1986 • Angleterre - Argentine 22 Juin 1986, ou le jour où Diego Maradona a marqué l'histoire du football mondial. 2/ Maradona, un gamin en or | ARTE •25 nov. 2020 ARTE Âgé de 60 ans, Diego Armando Maradona est décédé le 25 novembre 2020. ARTE diffuse un portrait de la légende du football, star absolue de l'Argentine, sacré jeune roi du (...)

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The grandson of Chile’s former elected socialist President Salvador Allende, who was toppled in a 1973 CIA-orchestrated military coup, has lived in Venezuela for 10 years. The Grayzone’s Ben Norton interviewed Pablo Sepúlveda Allende in Caracas. Sepúlveda Allende spoke about the many similarities between the democratic revolutions in Chile and Venezuela, and why he thinks Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro follow in the footsteps of his grandfather. Transcript BEN NORTON: September 11 is a dark date not only in the […]

The US-backed Venezuelan coup regime of Juan Guaidó is reestablishing ties with Israel and has opened a “virtual embassy” in Jerusalem, run by a right-wing rabbi who lives in Miami and wants Netanyahu’s help to fight “terrorism.” By Ben Norton Venezuela’s late socialist President Hugo Chávez was a strong supporter of Palestinian rights who officially […]

Via The North Belfast Journal A View from Napoleons Nose by Fra Hughes…
There is a radical quarantine in place in Venezuela at the present time as the COVID 19 Coronavirus appears to gain a foothold in the country.The fear at this time is for the Barios, in the capital Caracas, which may be susceptible to the virus, as they are among the most densely populated and poorest parts of Venezuelan society.

During this coronavirus pandemic, it is easy to see that many other countries have responded more quickly and with better and more available testing and treatment than the US has. It is also easy to see that we would benefit by shifting away from acting as if the US is a world unto itself, toward […]

The era of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales was marked by revolutionary principles that transcended the region of Latin America. Together, Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia presented a unified, inspirational front. Seven years since the demise of Hugo Chavez, at a time when Cuba is persisting in its revolution, Bolivia finds itself ensnared by the dynamics of a US-backed dictatorship, and Venezuela battles imperialist intervention in the country, the Bolivarian Revolution requires more than a temporary remembrance.

The farcical scene of Juan Guaido attempting to break into Venezuela’s National Assembly as its members voted him out was…
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