Venezuelanalysis: US Military Siege and ‘Narco-state’ Allegations Against Venezuela: All You Need to Know Caracas denounced the US military deployment in the Caribbean as an attempt to provoke a war, using a false “narco-state” narrative against the Maduro government. According to Washington, Venezuela is greatly responsible for the US narcotics crisis. The Mexican and Colombian governments have asserted there is zero proof of Venezuelan government involvement in any narcotics activities. The so-called cartel’s first origin: the CIA. The 2025 UN World Drug Report once again concluded that Venezuela is neither a major drug producer nor a key international trafficking corridor. The so-called “Cartel de los Soles” and “Tren de Aragua” are not even a footnote.
Orinoco Tribune: Venezuela at UN Security Council: ‘We Believe We Are Facing Imminent US Attack’ “The plan is clear. It is once again about executing the operation that already failed: overthrowing the legitimate and constitutional President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, to install a puppet regime and turn our country into a colony.” “We believe that they are preparing themselves. You cannot sustain this level of mobilization for two years. They have to act quickly. That is the military logic. There are costs…That is why I am coming here.” “They are promoting an endless war, fueled by their addiction to oil, the same addiction that led them to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. It is time to prevent that history from repeating itself in Venezuela.” Venezuela then proposed three urgent measures to the Security Council.
Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Military action against Venezuela must be stopped The pretexts used for this extraordinary and irrational military deployment by the US are unfounded and based on falsehoods. It is legally and morally unacceptable for these pretexts to be used as a basis for military aggression against a sovereign state. The dangers to the peace, security, and stability of Our America are real and imminent. The Venezuelan government has warned of a foiled plan to attack the US Embassy in Caracas with explosives, organized by a sector of the Venezuelan extreme right, in search of a pretext for US military forces on the high seas. It would not be the first time that the US resorted to this type of maneuver to justify military aggression. Cuba makes a new call to mobilize the international community to stop military action against Venezuela.
Code Pink (Michelle Ellner): When Maria Corina Machado Wins the Nobel Peace Prize, ‘Peace’ Has Lost Its Meaning She’s the smiling face of Washington’s regime-change machine, the polished spokesperson for sanctions, privatization, and foreign intervention dressed up as democracy. Machado’s politics are steeped in violence. She has called for foreign intervention, even appealing directly to Benjamin Netanyahu, the architect of Gaza’s annihilation, to help “liberate” Venezuela with bombs under the banner of “freedom.” Michelle then presents This is who Maria Corina Machado really is (see article).
Geopolitical Economy Report (Ben Norton): Nobel Peace Prize winner supports Israel’s genocide & Trump’s war on Venezuela The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a far-right Venezuelan coup-plotter who has long been funded by the US government. She strongly supports Israel as it commits genocide against the Palestinian people, and she is at the center of Donald Trump’s war on Venezuela, pushing for regime change against President Nicolás Maduro.
Network of Intellectuals, Artists, and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity: We raise our Voices against the War Operation of the Nobel “Peace” Prize The Network strongly denounces and condemns the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, which constitutes a cynical escalation and war action of the US. It is unacceptable and hypocritical for the Nobel Committee to present Machado as a “unifying figure” when her record shows the opposite: explicitly calling for the overthrow of the legitimate governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, actively supporting the criminal sanctions that are suffocating her own country, and directly sponsoring violent confrontation in the streets of Venezuela to force an unconstitutional end to the legitimately elected government. Machado has appealed directly to Benjamin Netanyahu for him to help “liberate” (read “colonize”) Venezuela, while promising to reopen the Venezuelan embassy in Jerusalem, openly aligning herself with an apartheid state internationally seen and accused of genocide. In the face of this serious and shameful maneuver, which seeks only to justify the death and destruction of an entire nation, the Network in Defense of Humanity urgently calls on the peoples of the world to raise their voices in protest in a forceful and united manner.
Resumen Latinoamericano (Roger Harris): Bringing a Howitzer to a Knife Fight: US Armada Off Venezuela Recently retired head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Pino Arlacchi, pronounced the cartel “a product of Trump’s imagination… useful for justifying sanctions, blockades and threats of military intervention against a country which, incidentally, sits on one of the planet’s largest oil reserves.” According to reports from the UN, the European Union, and the US Drug Enforcement Agency, Venezuela is essentially free of drug production and processing – no coca, no marijuana, and certainly no fentanyl. In fact, drug interdiction is a ruse for Washington’s goal of regime-change in Venezuela, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. The people have rallied around the Maduro political leadership, which has suffered no defections. The military-civilian union remains unbroken; literally millions have enrolled in the militia to defend their country.
Cuba Analysis Podcast: interview with Johana Tablada, present Cuban ambassador to Mexico (youtube here)
Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition: Stop US Aggression Against Venezuela! This statement gives the reasons why a US attack is imminent. “We demand an end to US impunity and the withdrawal of US troops and war materiel from the Caribbean before the situation escalates any further. We vehemently object to the deployment of nuclear capable vessels in a region which, in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, declared itself a nuclear-free zone in 1967, and which the US committed itself to respect in 1971. We demand respect for international law and the sovereignty of nations.”
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Upcoming Events
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October 18, 9am ET: Resistance, resilience and internationalism: Nicaragua’s path out of poverty Valdrack Jaentschke, Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, Felix Plasencia, Venezuelan Ambassador to the UK; Geraldine Cawthorne, NSCAG The event is in person and online
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November 5 (Halifax): Cuba’s Life Task: Cuba’s Resilience & Blueprint for Climate Survival
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