Nicolás Maduro

Venezuela’s opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez (left) and Antonio Ledezma (AP/Fernando Llano/Eraldo Peres)

(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) This week, the Trump administration condemned the Venezuelan government following the country’s recent election. But as the U.S. imposes sanctions on Venezuela and vocally decries their lack of democracy, President Trump’s outrage is all but nonexistent as a U.S. ally preparing to behead 14 students for protesting.

All-cash deals, rolled-up Warhols and concert cults + this day in history w/the Empire State Building plane crash and our song of the day by Matthew Dear on your Morning Monarchy for July 28, 2017.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro fist bumps a worker of the state-run oil company PDVSA during a visit to the Orinoco oil belt in Venezuela in 2013. (Photo: Miraflores/AP)
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may consider banning oil imports from Venezuela if the country moves forward with its July 30 National Constituent Assembly, the Financial Times reported Tuesday.

A chavista campaigns for the upcoming Constituent Assembly elections (left) and opposition officials set fire to the voting records from their consultation

Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez holds a Venezuelan national flag as he greets a group of opposition protesters outside his home in Caracas, Venezuela, July 8, 2017. (AP/Fernando Llano)

Positive chemistry, house arrest and moving back to America + this day in history w/the launch of Telstar and our song of the day by Ringo Starr on your Morning Monarchy for July 10, 2017.

In the brilliant but flawed David Fincher film Fight Club, based on the book by Chuck Palahniuk, Tyler Durden’s (Brad Pitt) underground boxing club reconfigures itself into something called “Project Mayhem,” a skulking, surreptitious program to wreak havoc on the consumerist hive of corporate America. Typical projects included mandates to “destroy a piece of corporate art and trash a franchise coffee bar” in a single act and set skyscraper offices on fire to create a fiery smiley face when viewed from afar.

More than 80 people miraculously avoided injury or death in a helicopter attack that targeted Venezuelan government buildings this week. The attack may have been part of an attempted coup supported by the U.S. as it seeks to topple Venezuela’s government to gain access to its massive oil reserves.

Oscar Perez et son commando, lisant la déclaration publiée sur son compte instagram simultanément à l’attaque du TSJ et du ministère de l’intérieur
Hier, Mercredi 28 juin 2017, Oscar Perez, un policier d’élite, a lancé 4 grenades contre le Tribunal Suprême de Justice (TSJ) du Venezuela à Caracas depuis un hélicoptère. Il a également tiré une quinzaine de coups de feu sur le ministère de l’intérieur. A priori, les attaques n’auraient fait aucune victime.