Geography Archives: Venezuela

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.

The U.S. once again brought out its “democracy and human rights” talking points in an attempt to install opposition leader Edmundo González as president. While this effort failed, they will not stop in attempts to loot the country’s resources.

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.

A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.

Every time Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution is faced with renewed threats to its survival, a stratum of U.S.-based intellectuals is always ready with ‘left’ critiques that deliberately obscure the permanent imperialist siege against the country.

A Huottüja leader easily dispatches most of the major political issues the country is facing, including the electoral dispute.

The $7.3 billion offer from the investment fund falls significantly short of the Venezuelan refiner’s valuation.

The head of a prestigious research center talks about knowledge production in the Bolivarian Revolution.

Interior Minister Cabello said authorities had uncovered a “terrorist plot” to assassinate Maduro, the U.S. denied allegations of involvement.

Analyst and former UN rapporteur Alfred de Zayas looks at the history of U.S. intervention and sanctions against Venezuela.