More than 70 Groups Demand Trump Immediately End US Sanctions Against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and Others During Covid-19 Crisis actual letter here. Over 70 civil society groups representing more than 40 million people called on President Donald Trump Thursday to issue immediate sanctions relief for numerous countries—including Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea. . … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 4.24.2020: US-Sanctioned Countries set example in Fighting Coronavirus

Cuba Statement by Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Covid-19 pandemic evidences the need to cooperate despite political differences Covid19 has come into a world overburdened by production and consumption patterns, especially in highly industrialized countries and among the elites of developing countries, that are unsustainable and incompatible with the finite character of natural resources … Continue reading Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 4.17.2020: Cuba, Venezuela & Nicaragua can Teach the US How to Fight Coronavirus

Cuba MEDICC: Six Decades of Cuban Global Health Cooperation A review of development of Cuban medical aid to other countries, which began with Chile in 1960. Discusses Cuba’s international school of medicine, ELAM, which has trained 29,000 doctors from other countries, for free. Operation Milagro, where millions around the world received free cataracts surgery. This … Continue reading Venezuela &ALBA Weekly News 4.10.2020 Cuba sends more doctors, the US sends warships

Venezuela Letter from President Maduro as US Threatens Venezuela with War Ministry of Foreign Relations Communique: Bolivarian Government repudiates threats by Donald Trump against Venezuela to divert attention to the Covid-19 crisis Grayzone: Leonardo Flores interview: Pompeo's 'transition' plan tells Venezuela to suffer into submission  Leonardo Flores puts the present US threats and “proposals” in … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 4.3.2020: Venezuela Defiant in face of US Military Blockade threat

Venzuela Code Pink (Leonardo Flores) Trump’s Narcoterrorism Indictment of Maduro already backfires For twenty years, right wing extremists in Miami and Washington have been slandering the Venezuelan government, accusing it of drug trafficking and harboring terrorists without ever offering even a shred of evidence.The myth that Venezuela is a narco-state has already been debunked by … Continue reading Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 3.27.2020: US Places a Bounty on President Maduro’s head; US threats against accepting Cuba’s health aid

Cuba’s Humanitarian Example Fighting Coronavirus The Independent: What coronavirus revealed about national mindsets across the world  - and how Cuba came out on top In a sign of true global solidarity, Cuba today allowed MS Braemer, a British cruise ship, to dock on its shores despite having at least five confirmed coronavirus cases on board … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA Weekly 3.20.2020: Cuba’s Humanitarian Example Fighting Coronavirus while US uses it as a regime change weapon

Monthly Review (Lauren Smith): The US-imposed economic sanctions—the big heist Sanctions impact one-third of humanity in 39 countries. Economic sanctions not only cause untold death and devastation to a given country by denying it access to U.S.-dominated markets—which restricts its ability to generate wealth, stabilize its currency against price fluctuations and provide critical services and … Continue reading Venezuela-ALBA Weekly 3.13.2020 US Sanctions: a Human Rights Crime against Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Iran…

Venezuela Video documentary: Chavez, The Life of Hugo Chavez This presents the ideological origins of Hugo Chávez which led him to challenge the elite in Venezuela during the early 90s. His rise to the presidency in 1999, his opponents’ coup d’etat in 2002 which ended with his return to Caracas supported by the working classes … Continue reading Venezuela-ALBA Weekly News 3.6.2020 #292 Remembering Hugo Chavez; ALBA Countries Must Deal with Increasing US Economic War

Sanctions Kill! – Food Sovereignty Delegation to Venezuela April 12-21, Code Pink Delegations to Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba Cuba: 15th May Day International Brigade of Voluntary Work and Solidarity, April 27- May 10 Canada Che Guevara Voluntary Work Brigade to Cuba, April 27-May 10 Human Rights Delegation to Honduras, May 7-17 Building Relations with Cuban Labor … Continue reading Venezuela-ALBA Solidarity 2.28.2020 Delegations to Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Honduras, Colombia