Tag: Venezuela

Venezuelan Hard Right Opposition Leader Leopoldo Lopez Flees to Spain

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Venezuelan Hard Right Opposition Leader Leopoldo Lopez Flees to Spain

Long seen as one of the most prominent anti-Chavista figures, Lopez had been in the Spanish Ambassador’s residence for 18 months. He was freed from house arrest by rogue intelligence officers during the failed military putsch on April 30, 2019 and sought refuge in the embassy after the coup attempt fizzled out.

The founder of the far right Popular Will party was a key actor in the 2002 failed coup attempt against then President Hugo Chavez and later played a leading role in the 2014 violent “guarimba” street protests which left 43 people dead. He was found guilty of public incitement to violence and association to commit crimes and convicted to a 13 years and nine months prison sentence in 2015, which was commuted to house arrest two years later.

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Leopoldo López Speaks About His Escape From Venezuelan Justice

Spanish Prime Minister and Leopoldo López Meet (PSOE)

Venezuela Condemns Spain for “Facilitating the Escape of Terrorist Leopoldo López”

American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World

So, Washington’s aggression directed against much of the world continues with a national election less than two weeks away but no one is talking about it. That would seem odd in and of itself, but the sad part is that it is deliberate collusion on the part of government and media to make sure the voting public remains unaware the extent to which the United States has in reality become a pariah, a full-time bully in its foreign relations.

The War on Cuba and Venezuela

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The War on Cuba and Venezuela

But not only did the Cuban people benefit from subsidized or no-cost Venezuelan oil; the Venezuelan working class did too, from the Cuban health, culture and literacy missions, such as Barrio Adentro and Misión Robinson, now common throughout the country. Under Chavez’s PDVSA, which since 1986 has owned a majority share of U.S. oil refiner and distributor CITGO, the U.S. poor and people of color also benefited from Venezuelan oil, as Joe Kennedy’s Citizens Energy Corporation worked with Chavez to deliver free heating fuel to homeless shelters, low-income communities of colors and Native American reservations.

YouTube: The War on Cuba – Episode 1

Letter from Venezuela’s President, Nicolás Maduro, to the Peoples of the world on the impact of the criminal imperialist blockade

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Venezuela – National Constituent Assembly Passes Contentious “Anti-Blockade” Law

Spain Rejects Extradition of Orlando Figuera’s Murderer – Black Chavista Burned Alive in 2017

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Enzo Franchini Oliveros inside the red circle. File photo. Orinoco Tribune | October 2, 2020

A Spanish Justice on Wednesday rejected the extradition of the Venezuelan Enzo Franchini Oliveros, who is requested in Venezuela for his participation, during the 2017 guarimbas, in the criminal action, where a group of people stabbed and burned alive 22-year-old Orlando Figuera, under the accusation of “being Chavista.”

Spain Rejects Extradition of Orlando Figuera’s Murderer – Black Chavista Burned Alive in 2017

Venezuela’s Maduro wins UK court appeal over $1 billion in gold reserves held by the Bank of England

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Venezuela’s Maduro wins UK court appeal over $1 billion in gold reserves held by the Bank of England

– Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro won a UK court appeal that ruled the legal battle over $1 billion in gold reserves held by the Bank of England must be reconsidered.

– Britain’s second-highest court reversed a previous ruling that recognized Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s interim president.

– The UK’s recognition of Venezuela’s de facto leader “is to my mind ambiguous, or at any rate less than unequivocal,” court justices led by Judge Stephen Males said on Monday.

– Earlier this year, Maduro had demanded the gold held in the vaults of the Bank of England to help his cash-starved nation battle the COVID-19 pandemic. But his administration was refused access.

US Sails Warship Off Venezuela’s Coastal Waters Citing Treaty Washington Itself Hasn’t Ratified

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Sputnik – 02.10.2020 Last week, Caracas accused the United States of being “the greatest threat to world peace and stability” after Washington slapped Venezuela with additional sanctions on senior government officials for doing business with Iran. The US and its allies have been attempting to overthrow Venezuela’s democratically-elected government since early 2018.

US Sails Warship Off Venezuela’s Coastal Waters Citing Treaty Washington Itself Hasn’t Ratified

US: Democrats, Rubio Ask EU to Not Observe Venezuela Elections

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

teleSUR | September 30, 2020 The U.S.-based peace organization CODEPINK, on Tuesday, condemned a bipartisan letter sent to the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, requesting that the European body neither recognize nor send an electoral observation mission to Venezuela’s legislative elections this December 6.

US – Democrats, Rubio Ask EU to Not Observe Venezuela Elections