Venezuelanalysis: Trump Administration Ramps Up Oil Sanctions, Targets Tankers The US Treasury levied new sanctions against the Venezuelan oil industry as the White House looks to strangle the nation’s most important revenue source. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) blacklisted six shipping companies for allegedly transporting Venezuelan crude. The US Coast Guard led … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 12.15.2025: US Escalates Provocations against Venezuela; Daniel Ortega on US Wars and Drug Trafficking; Gary Webb on CIA and Cocaine
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Venezuela & ALBA News 12.08.2025: Venezuela Budget – 78% for Social Investment; US Poll on Opposition to Intervention; Cost of US Military Operation; Venezuelan tourism Increases
TeleSur: Venezuela Presents 2026 Budget and Defends Oil Sovereignty Against Imperialist Interference The budget proposal includes more than 5 trillion bolivars, of which 77.8% will be allocated to social investment. Prior to the Chavista era, this amounted to 40%. The 2026 US budget stands at 42%. Vice President Delcy Rodriguez stated, "Venezuela is showing the … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 12.08.2025: Venezuela Budget – 78% for Social Investment; US Poll on Opposition to Intervention; Cost of US Military Operation; Venezuelan tourism Increases
Roberto Clemente – Hero of Solidarity
Stalin Vladimir Centeno, https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/8176 Dedicating an article to Roberto Clemente today, and not on December 31st, should be seen as an act of gratitude. Clemente shouldn't be a year-end tradition. We Nicaraguans feel genuine gratitude toward the Puerto Rican. Clemente left his family, the festivities, his tranquility, and his comfortable life to bring aid to … Continue reading Roberto Clemente – Hero of Solidarity
Venezuela & ALBA News 12.1.2025: US Threats against Venezuela also Target its Neighbors; How El Toque Damages Cuban Economy; 6.5 Million Venezuelans vote in Popular Consultation
John Perry, Roger Harris: It's not only about Venezuela The US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela. This is the objective – on a longer timescale in some cases – across several of the countries in the Caribbean Basin, aiming to cleanse … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 12.1.2025: US Threats against Venezuela also Target its Neighbors; How El Toque Damages Cuban Economy; 6.5 Million Venezuelans vote in Popular Consultation
Venezuela & ALBA News 11.24.2025: Venezuelan Revolution Deepens as Threat of US Attack Continues
Mision Verdad: The fundamental role of the Venezuelan population in the face of military threats The population has reacted in a way unexpected by the global media exerting psychological pressure on them. There is no visible unrest in the streets, and the majority rejects foreign intervention in the country. The opposition has lost political influence … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 11.24.2025: Venezuelan Revolution Deepens as Threat of US Attack Continues
Mision Verdad: The fundamental role of the Venezuelan population in the face of military threats
https://misionverdad.com/venezuela/el-rol-fundamental-de-la-poblacion-venezolana-ante-las-amenazas-militares The increasingly less covert US military deployment, ostensibly under the guise of an "anti-drug operation," has the clear objective of regime change in Venezuela. The scenarios range from a direct military attack against the national government to the creation of an internal rupture, accelerated by mercenaries hired from Washington, that would shatter the cohesion … Continue reading Mision Verdad: The fundamental role of the Venezuelan population in the face of military threats
Venezuela & ALBA News #580, 11.17.2025: Venezuela is Prepared for US Attack; Communal Movement Meets; Donate for Cuba Hurricane Relief
The Cradle: Empire repurposed: Washington aims at La Patria Grande With unipolarity in tatters and Eurasian resistance surging, Washington’s last viable project is consolidation of its so-called “backyard.” Even hawkish institutions realize the US can no longer take on China and Russia. Instead of America guaranteeing Europe’s security, Trump outsourced it to the EU and … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News #580, 11.17.2025: Venezuela is Prepared for US Attack; Communal Movement Meets; Donate for Cuba Hurricane Relief
Mamdani Will Follow the Path of AOC, Bernie, and Brandon Johnson
Stansfield Smith, ChicagoALBASolidarity.org The disenfranchised, cast aside people of the US find hope when an AOC, Brandon Johnson, Mamdani and Bernie Sanders campaigns and wins public office. These campaigns overcame corporate backed opponents, relying on people power not corporate financing, organizing many thousands of our fellow working people to participate. Yet, possessing public office does … Continue reading Mamdani Will Follow the Path of AOC, Bernie, and Brandon Johnson
Venezuela & ALBA News 11.10.2025: US Attack Would Trigger a Continental War Against US; Donate for Cuba Hurricane Aid
Orinoco Tribune: President Maduro Warns US That Attacking Venezuela Would Trigger Continental Armed Struggle; initiates Bolivarian Comprehensive Base Committees “What do they think would happen if Venezuela is touched? Do they think the people would let themselves be humiliated? If Venezuela is touched, it would be a single voice of a united people [responding], all … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 11.10.2025: US Attack Would Trigger a Continental War Against US; Donate for Cuba Hurricane Aid
November 5: 19 Years Since the Electoral Victory of the People-President Daniel Ortega
https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/7929 Bryan Davila, Board of Communication and Citizenship, November 5, 2025 “Nicaragua is producing a New Revolution, a Spiritual Revolution, the Revolution of Love, the Revolution of Solidarity, the Revolution of Justice, the Revolution that is going to give him Work to this People.” — Commander Daniel Ortega, November 5, 2006 https://www.youtube.com/embed/RdjjksuQ_2k Neoliberal Disaster and People's … Continue reading November 5: 19 Years Since the Electoral Victory of the People-President Daniel Ortega