Venezuela

US Treasury Authorizes Chevron’s Transactions With Venezuela

Samizdat – 26.11.2022 The US Treasury granted Chevron a general license allowing transactions by the California-based energy major that service oil production in Venezuela and its export to the United States. Transactions performed by Chevron’s joint ventures with Venezuelan state oil giant PdVSA are authorized as long as they are related to “production and lifting […]

Iran bans imports of French cars unless damage redressed

Press TV – November 21, 2022 Iran has banned the imports of French cars until France’s automobile manufacturers, namely Renault, Peugeot and Citroen, compensate the damage caused by leaving the Islamic Republic. The withdrawal imposed a lot of costs on Iran’s automobile and parts manufacturing industry and left many investments in ruins after the US […]

COP27 : Les dirigeants occidentaux deviennent soudain plus courtois avec le président du Venezuela

John Kerry s’est entretenu avec Nicolas Maduro lors d’une réunion « impromptue » tandis qu’Emmanuel Macron l’a appelé « président », ignorant Juan Guaido. Source : Responsible Statecraft, Connor EcholsTraduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises Après avoir tenté pendant des années d’isoler le président vénézuélien Nicolas Maduro, les États-Unis et leurs alliés européens semblent […]

Why the US Imprisoned Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab

A year ago, October 16, the long arm of US extra-territorial judicial overreach abducted Alex Saab and threw him into prison in Miami, where the Venezuelan diplomat has languished ever since. The official narrative is that Saab had bilked the Venezuelans in a “vast corruption network” and the US as the world’s self-appointed cop was […]
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Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “Suffer Like Julian Assange,” according to UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur

New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela The U.S. imperialists “want Alex Saab like they want Julian Assange to suffer,” charges human rights and international law expert Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, who the United Nations’ Human Rights Council […]

PHOTOS: Ethically challenged OAS Chief Almagro canoodles aide following Venezuela regime-change junket

The Grayzone has obtained photographs of OAS chief Luis Almagro displaying romantic intimacy with his former top aide, possibly while she worked in his office. Almagro’s conduct is the subject of an internal OAS investigation over concerns his relationship violated the organization’s code of ethics. On October 7, the Associated Press revealed that OAS Secretary General and fanatical regime change activist Luis Almagro is facing an internal investigation by the multi-lateral body over a potentially improper affair he carried out […]

Understanding Maduro’s successful socialist economic strategy

After years of calling Venezuela’s economy a dismal failure that demonstrates the dangers of socialism, Western media is now lauding its recovery for ’embracing capitalism’ — but this is not accurate, argues Francisco Dominguez In its intensely biased coverage of Venezuela during the hard years of 2014-21 the mainstream media wheeled in every imaginable academic pundit to “demonstrate” that the[Read More...]

While Cuba Deals with Blazing Fire, the U.S. Watches and Waits

Cuban firefighters (Photo Credit AP) By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 and continues blazing have become international news. When lightning struck an oil tank in Cuba’s largest oil storage facility, it quickly exploded and began to spread to nearby tanks. As […]

US intel officer targeted by John Bolton reacts to coup-plot confession

John Bolton admitted to CNN that he “helped plan coups d’etat” abroad, including Venezuela. Fulton Armstrong — a former senior US intelligence official who Bolton tried to oust  — responds. In a live interview with CNN, former senior US official John Bolton admitted that he has “helped plan coups d’etat” in a number of foreign countries, including Venezuela. Fulton Armstrong, a former senior US intelligence official, has a unique perspective on Bolton’s coup confession. In 2002, Bolton unsuccessfully tried to […]