Daily Round-up | Saudi Arabia joins SCO & other stories
In today’s episode, we look at Saudi Arabia joining SCO, Chad nationalizes oil assets, and more.
Which government does the United States recognize in Venezuela?
The US government believes that the real democratic institution in Venezuela is the National Assembly of 2015 that has not met in seven years and whose term expired after the election of December 2020
How a US Congressman took on the US blockade against Venezuela
After a sustained campaign carried out by local activists, US member of Congress Jim McGovern publicly condemned the current US policy towards Venezuela, particularly the regime of sanctions which have caused ‘needless death’
The Capitol raid and pandemic can help us empathize with Venezuelans
The people of Venezuela have been living under a stage of siege, and enduring attacks on their sovereignty under successive US administrations. These assaults intensified during the Trump era
How the US failed at its foreign policy toward Venezuela
US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Venezuela confirmed this week the overt efforts over the last year of the US government to carry out a coup d’état against president Nicolás Maduro
Trial of Venezuela embassy protectors begins in the US
The Trump administration wants to severely restrict what the protectors can say in their defense, not even allowing them to state that Maduro is the real president of Venezuela
Movements across the world reject latest US attack on Venezuela
People and movements from across the world are standing in solidarity with Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution after the latest imperialist offensive and demanding #NoMoreTrump
Trump escalates sanctions against Venezuela to full-fledged embargo
Donald Trump’s latest executive order which blocks all Venezuelan property in the jurisdiction of the United States has been met with backlash across Venezuela and the world
What Are Our Tasks and Perspectives to Defend Venezuela?
Alison Bodine and Ali Yerevani of Fire This Time! write about the need to strengthen our internationalist solidarity with Venezuela
Human rights report on Venezuela ignores impact of imperialist aggression
The much anticipated UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report barely touched upon how the economic sanctions and right-wing violence have impacted the lives of the Venezuelan people
OAS divided over presence of Venezuelan opposition at assembly
The representatives of several countries cited that the presence of the delegation violates the organization’s norms.
US moves to evict activists from the Venezuelan embassy in Washington
For months now, US has been considering military intervention in Venezuela in Guaido’s favor, a prospect that the latter has welcomed in his bid to oust Maduro.
- Capitalism is the greatest threat to public health, warn researchers and activists
- UAW mobilizes thousands more to join Stand Up Strike
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas demands renewal of peace process, full UN membership
- Haiti and Kenya establish diplomatic ties as UNSC mulls deployment of controversial “security support mission”
- Syrian president visits China, seeks to increase economic cooperation
