Geography Archives: Venezuela

Venezuelan detainees are currently being held in the overseas camp and deprived of contact with relatives or legal counsel.

Donald Trump is back in the White House, and faux opposition is once again the order of the day for the Western media and the Democratic Party.

February 4, 2025 marked the thirty-third anniversary of the attempted seizure of power by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.

The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.

Communards living by the Orinoco River talk about the impact of U.S. sanctions on their work and lives.

These funds were delivered during Guaido’s ‘interim government’ as ‘humanitarian aid’ through an NGO that belong to politicians who live without working abroad.

Writers and activists Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris reflect on the piece in the NYT which openly calls for a military intervention to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro.

Venezuelan communards on the Orinoco River talk about their organizing processes in recent years.

As part of VA’s Communal Resistance series, fisherfolk explain the challenges of building a commune in a country under siege.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro awarded decorations to officials who are illegally sanctioned by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union on January 10, after his swearing-in as the country’s constitutional president for the 2025-2031 term.

With President Maduro’s third term about to begin, we discuss an organizational network that promotes continental integration from below.

Ten days before Donald Trump will be inaugurated in Washington DC on January 20, there will be another inauguration in Caracas. Two contenders claim they will receive the Venezuelan presidential sash.

A theologian from Cuba’s Martin Luther King Center talks about how Chávez celebrated life.

President Maduro called to “shake the foundations of the Venezuelan bourgeois state […] and build a communal, democratic state of the people.”

How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

VA columnist Andreína Chávez raises alarms about the escalating threats of mercenary invasions in Venezuela, pointing to the role the U.S. has played.

Steve Ellner: “The basic contradiction of capitalism is at the point of production, the contradiction between the interests of the working class and those of capitalists.”

A Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ community in the Venezuelan Amazon discusses their culture and organization as well as the Indigenous peoples’ rights established in the 1999 constitution.

The 16th Summit of the BRICS organization is taking place this week in the Russian city of Kazan. President Nicolás Maduro was invited by the Russian president himself, Vladimir Putin, at the beginning of August, and is attending with a Venezuelan delegation.

The United States is waging an economic war against Venezuela.