🖊🗞OPINION | Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions

With the US ramping up military threats, Roger Harris examines the economic war already underway against Venezuela with deadly consequences.

While nearly 100 deaths have been reported from US military actions at sea under “Operation Southern Spear,” with no narcotics recovered, Harris cites peer-reviewed studies estimating more than 100,000 excess deaths linked to US sanctions, noting that young children are disproportionately affected.

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🖊🗞OPINION | How to Topple Imperial Delusion: A Response to Elliott Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela

Solidarity activist Michelle Ellner challenges Elliott Abrams’s recent arguments for regime change in Venezuela. “Abrams writes with the confidence of someone who has never lived inside the countries his policies have destabilized,” Ellner states, noting that Abrams helped design the sanctions that severely affected the Venezuelan economy, later using the resulting crisis to argue for regime change.

Furthermore, even US government data contradicts Abrams’s narrative: DEA and UNODC reports indicate that most cocaine destined for the US moves through the Pacific from Colombia, not Venezuela.

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📰 NEWS | Venezuela: Grassroots Movements Demand Justice After Tenant Killed in Eviction Attempt

Venezuelan grassroots housing movements are calling for judicial action after tenant Eduardo Súnico was killed during an eviction attempt in Bello Monte. According to witnesses, purported landlord Italo Di Pascuale shot Súnico and his wife, who remains hospitalized. Di Pascuale is in custody but has not been charged.

Organizations from the Pobladores alliance held an emergency rally in Caracas and criticized the Attorney General’s Office and police forces for their role in eviction operations. National Assembly Deputy Rigel Sergent called for a thorough investigation to establish the facts, including police presence at the scene and Di Pascuale’s history.

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🖊🗞OPINION | The Revolution Will Not Be Terrorized

Andreína Chávez traces a chilling line from the Zong Massacre to the US military terror now unfolding in Caribbean waters.

UN officials have classified recent US bombings in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific waters as “extrajudicial killings,” with more than 80 people killed since September. Victims were from Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Washington’s accusations tying Venezuela to major drug trafficking contradict UNODC and DEA findings, which confirm the country does not produce drugs and plays an insignificant role as a transit route.

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📰 NEWS | Trump-Maduro Call Signals Possible Détente Despite Criminal Indictments and Venezuela Strike Threats

The New York Times reported that Trump held a phone call with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio participating. The conversation allegedly referenced a potential future meeting, though criminal charges make it unfeasible for now.

Trump also repeated that land strikes inside Venezuelan territory could begin “very soon.” The threat follows a major regional military buildup and a bombing campaign that has already targeted alleged smuggling vessels, resulting in more than 80 civilian deaths according to UN experts.

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📰 NEWS | Venezuelan Gov’t Decries ‘Colonialist Threats’ After Trump Claims Airspace Closed

Venezuela dismissed Trump’s declaration that its airspace is “closed,” stating that operations remain normal and that the claim amounts to a unilateral threat disrupting ongoing deportation flights.

At the same time, scrutiny is mounting over US boat strikes that have killed more than 80 civilians since September. To date, US officials have not presented evidence about the boat crews’ identities and cargoes. UN experts and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, have labeled the US vessel strikes as extrajudicial executions and violations of international law.

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📰 NEWS | US Judge Authorizes Sale of Venezuela’s CITGO to Vulture Fund Elliott

Venezuela is set to lose its most important foreign asset after a protracted legal process in which the US-backed opposition faced accusations of malfeasance.

Delaware District Judge Leonard P. Stark has approved the US $5.9 billion sale of CITGO to Amber Energy, an Elliott Management affiliate, concluding the court-mandated auction launched in 2022. The proceeds will be distributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Crystallex, ConocoPhillips, Rusoro Mining and other corporations are expected to receive full compensation on their claims.

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📰 NEWS | Alleged US Deadline for Maduro Exit Passes Without Incident

An alleged US ultimatum giving President Nicolás Maduro one week to leave Venezuela passed without incident. Officials in Caracas dismissed claims that any negotiation involved Maduro stepping down.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration faces growing scrutiny after disclosures that US strikes in the Caribbean targeted shipwrecked survivors. US lawmakers have introduced a War Powers Resolution aiming to block military action against Venezuela without congressional approval.

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🖊🗞OPINION | Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed

Solidarity activist Roger Harris looks at Washington's military escalation in Venezuela and Trump's pretense to close the country's airspace.

He brings attention to Trump ordering Venezuela’s skies “closed in their entirety” on Nov. 29 without approval from the US Congress, Venezuela, or any international body, while the day before announcing his intention to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted for enabling large-scale cocaine trafficking.

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🗒️🗣️ INTERVIEW | ‘Venezuela, the Threat of a Good Example’: A Conversation with Geraldina Colotti

In a world turned upside down, Italian activist Geraldina Colotti argues that no good deed and no sovereign project goes unpunished. She links the latest US escalation against Venezuela to what she describes as a broader imperial strategy amid a global capitalist crisis, citing sanctions, psychological operations, and an expanded US military footprint across Latin America and the Caribbean.

For Colotti, Venezuela remains a target because it disrupts this dynamic. Before the blockade, the country had nearly achieved the UN Millennium Goals, a record she says turned Venezuela into “the threat of a good example” that Washington moved to contain.

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🎥 VIDEO | Venezuelans Are Prepared to Fight US Invasion

Venezuelanalysis' Ricardo Vaz joined Sharmini Peries on theAnalysis.news to discuss the latest developments from Venezuela, including Washington’s military buildup, Caracas’ reaction and the role played by the far-right opposition.

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📸 IN IMAGES | Solidarity Movements Take to the Streets to Oppose War Against Venezuela

Thousands mobilized across 65 US cities to oppose the Trump administration’s military threats against Venezuela. Actions were organized by ANSWER Coalition, The People’s Forum, Black Alliance for Peace, CODEPINK, PSL, DSA, and others.

The protests took place as Washington maintains its largest Caribbean naval deployment in decades and amid international criticism over US boat strikes that killed 87 civilians, classified by UN experts as extrajudicial executions.

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🖊🗞OPINION | Venezuela, The Day After

Luis Hernández examines Venezuela’s recent history of resisting regime-change initiatives, highlighting the central role of armed forces unity.

This opinion piece reviews more than two decades of unsuccessful US-supported attempts, underscores the cohesion of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces, and recalls the 2019 events in Táchira, where efforts to establish a territorial foothold under Juan Guaidó were halted after hours of clashes.

🔗 Read the full piece here: https://shorturl.at/s3s2d

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🖊🗞OPINION | The Next Wars Were Always Here: How Post 9/11 Law and the Monroe Doctrine Converged in the Caribbean

With Washington ramping up military threats against Venezuela, Michelle Ellner looks at how the US establishment laid the groundwork for new wars.

Relatives and maritime workers disputed Washington’s narrative about the US strikes near Venezuela, stating the men killed were unarmed workers and not linked to organized armed groups.

Reporting also revealed a classified OLC memo that frames the operations as part of a “non-international armed conflict,” a rationale lawmakers say lacks legal basis and expands presidential war powers without congressional authorization.

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📰 NEWS | Venezuela Condemns US Tanker Seizure as ‘International Piracy’ as a Potential Oil Blockade Looms

Venezuela denounced the US seizure of the “Skipper” oil tanker as “international piracy” after US forces boarded the vessel carrying 1.8 million barrels of crude loaded at the José terminal. The operation, which involved Coast Guard, Marines, and special forces, occurred without resistance. Cuba also condemned the action as a violation of international law.

The seizure comes as Washington expands its military presence in the Caribbean and weighs a naval blockade. US lawmakers questioned the administration’s shifting justification, citing contradictions between counter-narcotics claims and the targeting of an oil shipment.

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#Oil #Sanctions #USVenezuelaRelations

📰 NEWS | Venezuela: Trump Administration Ramps Up Oil Sanctions, Targets Tankers

The Trump administration escalated sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector by blacklisting six shipping companies and blocking six tankers for allegedly transporting Venezuelan crude, the US Treasury announced.

This week, US authorities also seized the tanker Skipper in international waters while it carried roughly 1.6 million barrels of Venezuelan crude bound for Asian markets. US officials indicated that further seizures could follow.

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🗒️🗣️ INTERVIEW | Puerto Rico, US Imperialism and Venezuela’s Defiant Sovereignty: A Conversation with Déborah Berman Santana

From within a US colony, Puerto Rican geographer and activist Déborah Berman Santana argues in the latest VA interview that Washington’s “new” strategy closely resembles the old one.

The United States’ latest National Security Strategy refocuses on the Western Hemisphere, reaffirming claims to dominance over Latin America and the Caribbean. In Berman Santana’s assessment, the document openly restates a historic objective: hemispheric control, with Venezuela at the center due to its insistence on sovereignty and control over its resources.

She explains that Puerto Rico’s status as an unincorporated US territory enables this strategy in practice. With six US military bases on the island and a recent increase in air and naval activity, including the takeover of former civilian facilities, the United States can deploy forces across the Caribbean without consultation, using military pressure to influence Venezuela and signal limits on regional sovereignty.

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