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About Orinoco Tribune

The Orinoco Tribune is an independent news outlet created in 2018 and specially designed to provide relevant progressive information about Venezuela or related to venezuela in the form of news articles and opinion pieces for English speakers around the world.
  • e: People protesting in Greece with a torn Europe Union flag during protests against neoliberal austerity measures in 2015. Photo: AP/File photo.

    Venezuela Condemns European Union’s ruling on illegal sanctions

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on September 16, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    The appeal was made against the European Union’s broad and far-reaching unilateral coercive measures that have impacted the entire Venezuelan population.

  • Thousands of people gather in front of a French military base demanding the French soldiers to leave the country, in the capital Niamey on September 3, 2023. Photo: Balima Boureima/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.

    Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger sign military alliance

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on September 17, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    The military governments of three African states, which all deposed their Western-backed leaders in recent years, have agreed to assist each other, individually or collectively, in case of external aggression or internal threats to their sovereignty.

  • EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meeting US President Joe Biden last year, at the G20 summit in Bali. Photo: European Commission/File photo.

    European Council on Foreign Relation: Europe becoming vassal of U.S.

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on June 29, 2023 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    A report issued by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) has warned that the European Union is being vassalized by the United States.

  • Alfred de Zayas on Alex Saab Kidnapping

    ‘State terrorism’: Alfred de Zayas on Alex Saab kidnapping

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on October 19, 2021 by La IguanaTV (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    “’Lawfare’ is a modern epidemic. In the past, governments did what they wanted and got away with it. Today they attempt to throw a cloak of legality over their abuse of extradition treaties and subvert the administration of justice in the process,” wrote the historian.

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    New European Union sanctions on democratic elections: 30 Venezuelan politicians to be sanctioned

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on February 21, 2021 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    The European Union (EU) announced this Friday, February 19, that the body will sanction about thirty Venezuelan leaders for participating in the legislative elections last December, reported Europa Press, alluding to a “high ranked official” of the community bloc.

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    Evo Morales: In Venezuela there was a Democratic ‘Fiesta’ on December 6

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on December 8, 2020 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    “There is peace, tranquility and yesterday there was a great democratic ‘fiesta’,” the former president of Bolivia and international observer of Venezuela’s elections, Evo Morales, emphasized this Monday.

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    Over 10,000 people died in transit to Spain in 2024 alone.[1] On June 2022, the border fence of Melilla, one of two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, was witness to a massacre that killed or disappeared over a hundred African migrants.[2]  A recent BBC investigation revealed that Greek border guards systematically repeal immigrants already on Greek […]

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