Venezuela Venezuelanalysis: Venezuela’s 2025 Legislative and Regional Elections: A Quick Guide Venezuelans return to the polls on Sunday, May 25, to elect a new National Assembly, governors for 24 states, and regional legislative councils. This is the 32nd electoral event under the Bolivarian Revolution. Orinoco Tribune: Minister Cabello Confirms Arrest of 38 Mercenaries Amid New … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 5.23.2025: US Tries to Disrupt National Assembly election; NED back at its work; Two Free Palestine Graduation Speeches
Anniversary of the Birth of Augusto Sandino: Long Live Sandinismo – It was written with blood and it is defended with love!
Stalin Vladimir Centeno, Stalin Magazine, May 19, 2025 Sandinismo is not a moment, it is not a frozen ideology, it is not a passing fad. Sandinismo is a flame that was born in the mountains, endured in the cities, and today governs with dignity. It has deep roots: the rebellious dignity of Sandino, the strategic … Continue reading Anniversary of the Birth of Augusto Sandino: Long Live Sandinismo – It was written with blood and it is defended with love!
Venezuela & ALBA News 5.16.2025: CELAC-China meeting; NED operations resume; Palestine; Bolivia’s MAS divisions being resolved?
Defending Rights and Dissent: New Version of "Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act," (H.R. 9495) to Crush Dissent Advances in Proposed Budget This opens the door to attack all solidarity organizations. On May 14, the House Ways and Means Committee passed the bill granting the Secretary of Treasury the ability to accuse … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 5.16.2025: CELAC-China meeting; NED operations resume; Palestine; Bolivia’s MAS divisions being resolved?
US Economic Warfare Drives Venezuelans and Cubans to come to the US
This was a flyer handed out at Chicago's May Day rally. Immigrants from Latin America come here as a direct result of US coups, invasions, and economic warfare against their countries. Colombians came because the US armed death squad governments. So did Salvadorans and Guatemalans in the 1980s. Haitians come because the US repeatedly overthrows … Continue reading US Economic Warfare Drives Venezuelans and Cubans to come to the US
Venezuela & ALBA News 5.9.2025: Russia and China increase support to Venezuela and Cuba; Cuban President Diaz-Canel blames NATO for Ukraine war; Iran-Venezuela friendship
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov article highlights importance of Cuba to Russia “Commander Fidel has done much to advance bilateral relations and to promote the values of peace, freedom, truth and justice in international affairs. For many generations of Russians, his name is associated with selfless dedication to the Cuban people. I have very warm … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 5.9.2025: Russia and China increase support to Venezuela and Cuba; Cuban President Diaz-Canel blames NATO for Ukraine war; Iran-Venezuela friendship
Cuban President Diaz-Canel: “Aggressive and expansionist policies, like NATO’s, are the true cause of the conflict in Ukraine today”
https://www.telesurtv.net/presidente-cuba-resalta-resistencia-rusa-agresividad-otan/ Diaz-Canel: "Aggressive and expansionist policies, like NATO's, are the true cause of the conflict in Ukraine today...We constantly denounce NATO's imperialist pursuit of advancement, its attacks on Russia, its interference in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation, and we also condemn the measures and sanctions applied against the Russian Federation." Full interview: http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2025/05/07/diaz-canel-destaca-el-papel-de-la-urss-en-la-lucha-contra-el-fascismo-a-80-anos-de-la-gran-victoria-video/ … Continue reading Cuban President Diaz-Canel: “Aggressive and expansionist policies, like NATO’s, are the true cause of the conflict in Ukraine today”
Venezuela & ALBA News 5.2.2025: How Chavez confronted Social Problems; Overcoming the Sanctions; Communal System, Remembering Ben Linder
Our first issue since March 21. Venezuela Blanca Eekhout: The Bolivarian Revolution: Past, Present, and Future Blanca points out that the then new Chavez government, with few resources at the time, sought to address the terrible social problems the people faced. His solution was to turn each social need into an organization and each organization … Continue reading Venezuela & ALBA News 5.2.2025: How Chavez confronted Social Problems; Overcoming the Sanctions; Communal System, Remembering Ben Linder
United States vs the Bolivarian Revolution
by Carlos Ron, former Venezuelan Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America In 1829, a year before his death, Simón Bolívar, the leader of the South American independence movement and the inspiration for today’s Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, wrote a prophetic phrase: “The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with misery … Continue reading United States vs the Bolivarian Revolution
Ben Linder’s Internationalist Example; murdered by US government Contras, April 28, 1987
Documentary: American Sandinista by Stalin Vladimir Centeno https://www.tortillaconsal.com/bitacora/node/6445 In a corner of northern Nicaragua, where the mountains embrace the dignity of humble people, a young engineer born in Portland, Oregon, decided to write his story with light, laughter, and blood. His name was Benjamín Linder, and although he came from far away, Nicaragua was his … Continue reading Ben Linder’s Internationalist Example; murdered by US government Contras, April 28, 1987
The Bolivarian Revolution: Past, Present, and Future
by Blanca Eekhout Blanca Eekhout is a Deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela and the President of the Simón Bolívar Institute. The Bolivarian Revolution is the result of a historical process and a historical project. Bolívar’s struggle is the synthesis of the Indigenous resistance. It is also the struggle of the Afro-descendant people who, … Continue reading The Bolivarian Revolution: Past, Present, and Future
Chicago ALBA Solidarity 