Geography Archives: Venezuela

The task is to recognize the political capacities that remain and to build relationships with those who continue to organize and struggle, here and abroad.

Siege, survival, and the dialectics of Venezuelan sovereignty.

Former Conindustria President Luigi Pisella, who is also a member of the Venezuelan government-created Special Commission for the Evaluation and Classification of Public Assets, has revealed that Washington retained approximately U.S. $4.7 billion of Venezuela’s oil-export income during the first half of 2026 as “payment” for the U.S. military operation that resulted in the January 3 bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.

The controversial decision was announced by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry on social media.

Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez Alava and sociologist María Páez Victor rejected allegations that Acting President Delcy Rodríguez and the Chavista leadership betrayed President Nicolás Maduro.

The energy blockade that the Trump administration has imposed on Cuba is hammering the island.

Trump has escalated his openly imperialist rhetoric against Venezuela, portraying the South American country as a neocolonial possession whose sovereign resources Washington may plunder as the “spoils” of military aggression.

On July 28, Venezuelans commemorate the birth of the Bolivarian Revolution’s historical leader.

Social media is not conducive to nuance.

“When the earthquake came,” Raimelis recalled, “we already knew how to work together.”

The sanctions death toll, an estimated 40,000 in 2017-18 and more than 100,000 in 2019, according to CERP and UN expert Alfred de Zayas, respectively, never received attention from the media, but the victims of the quakes are portrayed as the government’s fault.

The U.S. Air Force now runs Venezuela’s main international airport.

The ground had hardly stopped shaking before Washington began advancing its agenda.

White Helmets’ deployment to Venezuela is portrayed as a humanitarian mission that also advances Western influence through parallel state-building and regime change.

Venezuela is rebuilding amid an information war that obscures the effects of sanctions, frozen assets, and decades of U.S. economic warfare–and turns human suffering into another pretext to discredit the Bolivarian process.

The earthquake in Venezuela, heartbreaking by every measure, has been made far more lethal—both in its immediate impact and long-term consequences—by factors directly attributable to U.S. imperialism’s ongoing, multi-level assault on the country and its people.

The U.S. Southern Command dispatched the amphibious transport ship USS Fort Lauderdale and the littoral combat ship USS Billings to Venezuelan waters, along with C-17 Globemaster and C-130 Hercules transport aircraft. 

On June 24, Venezuela shook under the successive impact of two earthquakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 on the Richter scale.

Washington issued a new general license related to relief efforts but has thus far maintained in place its sanctions regime targeting the Venezuelan economy.