Venezuela’s Maduro Calls for Dialogue in Ukraine Crisis, Rejects NATO ‘Mockery’ of Minsk Accords

Venezuela’s Maduro Calls for Dialogue in Ukraine Crisis, Rejects NATO ‘Mockery’ of Minsk Accords

Experts have warned that the measure could ultimately actually serve to boost the development of a system parallel to the SWIFT service that is not beholden to the US and EU.

“Both Russia and China have generated alternative mechanisms of economic resistance, such as interbank payment systems outside SWIFT. Insofar as imperialism intensifies its violence, it only ends up pushing the very hegemony of the dollar in the world and the monopolies that NATO represents off a cliff,” Rivas went on to tell Venezuelanalysis.

Challenge to the US: Iran Unloads 2 Million Barrels of Crude Oil in Venezuela

The Iranian tanker, with a cargo of two million barrels of the hydrocarbon product needed to dilute Venezuelan extra-heavy crude, arrived on Friday, January 28, at the José port of the state-owned company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), and will unload during this week, according to a TankerTrackers document, a company specialized in tracking maritime movement in the oil trade.

Challenge to the US: Iran Unloads 2 Million Barrels of Crude Oil in Venezuela

Venezuela’s Sore Winners: Opposition, Media Blast Maduro Interference in Barinas Election Won by His Opposition

It’s worth imagining Russia imposing starvation sanctions on the U.S., but the U.S. still openly allowing Russian-backed candidates to run in elections. Now imagine those candidates being allowed to win, but still complaining about a lack of “advertising presence.”

Venezuela’s Sore Winners: Opposition, Media Blast Maduro Interference in Barinas Election Won by His Opposition by Joe Emersberger