🖊🗞OPINION | The Revolution Will Not Be Terrorized
Andreína Chávez traces a chilling line from the Zong Massacre to the US military terror now unfolding in Caribbean waters.
UN officials have classified recent US bombings in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific waters as “extrajudicial killings,” with more than 80 people killed since September. Victims were from Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Washington’s accusations tying Venezuela to major drug trafficking contradict UNODC and DEA findings, which confirm the country does not produce drugs and plays an insignificant role as a transit route.
Read the full VA opinion piece here 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/6Gxhm
#Slavery#USImperialism#USMilitaryThreats#Venezuelanhistory
🖊🗞OPINION | The Revolution Will Not Be Terrorized
Andreína Chávez traces a chilling line from the Zong Massacre to the US military terror now unfolding in Caribbean waters.
UN officials have classified recent US bombings in Caribbean and Eastern Pacific waters as “extrajudicial killings,” with more than 80 people killed since September. Victims were from Venezuela, Colombia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Washington’s accusations tying Venezuela to major drug trafficking contradict UNODC and DEA findings, which confirm the country does not produce drugs and plays an insignificant role as a transit route.
Read the full VA opinion piece here 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/6Gxhm
#Slavery#USImperialism#USMilitaryThreats#Venezuelanhistory
‘I told them it isn’t for me, but they didn’t believe me. They kept beating me. They fed me very poorly.’
This Indian girl was held as a sex slave for a year. She left home to get some money for her brothers to get an education, but it ended badly for her. In India, these kinds of stories are common. Children are often kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Today is International Missing Children’s Day, that’s why we want to show you this poor Indian girl’s story. Watch the clip to know what horror she has gone through.
Find more stories like this in the documentary Lost Kids.
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📑🖊 OPINION | All Elements in Place for a US Strike on Venezuela
On September 2, the US military destroyed a vessel in the Caribbean without attempting to stop or search it, killing 11 people. Washington claimed the boat came from Venezuela and was carrying drugs.
The latest opinion piece by Emersberger and Harris points to escalating US actions: troop deployments in the Caribbean, a $50M bounty on Maduro, expanded sanctions, and a sustained military presence. These steps, they argue, set the stage for a possible strike targeting Venezuela’s leadership.
🔗 Read the full piece here: https://shorturl.at/c6udQ
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📑🖊 OPINION |The United States Uses a Fabricated Drug Charge for a Potential Strike on Venezuela
Vijay Prashad situates the US military buildup in the Caribbean within the Trump administration’s broader offensive against Venezuela.
Seven warships and a nuclear-powered submarine are off Venezuela, even though most drugs reach the US via the Pacific. The US also doubled the reward on President Maduro to $50M for alleged ties to the “Cartel of the Suns,” described as a phenomenon rather than a cartel.
🔗 Read the full opinion piece here: https://venezuelanalysis.com/opinion/the-united-states-uses-a-fabricated-drug-charge-for-a-potential-strike-on-venezuela
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🗒️🗣️ INTERVIEW | Solidarity with Venezuela in the Belly of the Beast: A Conversation with Elizabeth Blaney
Organized opposition to US aggression against Venezuela is growing inside the United States, particularly among working-class and immigrant communities. In the latest VA interview, Los Angeles tenant organizer Elizabeth Blaney explains that communities facing ICE raids, Medicaid cuts, and housing insecurity see a direct connection between repression at home and war abroad.
Blaney also discusses the recent People’s Assembly for Peace and Sovereignty in Caracas, attended by 600–800 delegates despite major travel obstacles. Participants linked sanctions and military escalation against Venezuela to global consequences, including rising housing costs, energy insecurity, and the diversion of public resources away from social needs.
Read the full interview here 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/ZySYh
#InternationalSolidarity#USImperialism
📝 INTERVIEW | A Geopolitical Analysis of the Imperialist Buildup Against Venezuela: A Conversation with Ana Esther Ceceña
US escalation in the Caribbean is not an isolated move. According to Mexican economist and geopolitical analyst Ana Esther Ceceña, Washington aims to tighten control over Latin America’s natural resources and curb China and Russia’s expanding role in the region.
Ceceña also underscores Venezuela’s distinctive strength: a politically conscious people united in defending national sovereignty.
Read the full interview here 👉https://shorturl.at/MT4YG
#Oil#Sovereignty#USImperialism#USMilitaryThreats
Один из самых успешных работорговцев в истории, кому тем не менее установлены памятники в Африке. Португалец, давший начало африканскому роду. Проходимец, ставший побратимом короля Дагомеи. Католик, похороненный с почестями в виде человеческих жертвоприношений. Белый пращур, вошедший в пантеон вуду – Франсиску Фелиз ди Соза (1754–1849).
У него были десятки жен и сотни детей, и его клан поныне пользуется большим влиянием в Того и Бенине. Вокруг клана также консолидируются потомки бразильских рабов, вернувшихся на родину после отмены рабовладения – включая тех, кого Соза продал. Для этих людей он не злодей и не угнетатель, а покровитель, фигура престижа и силы, предок-лидер. На фото – потомки Франсиску и патриарх рода Чача VIII.
Эта история ставит интересные вопросы перед теорией деколонизации, идеологическая линия которой (плод западной Академии) может не соответствовать запутанным человеческим связям и локальным мировоззрениям. Больше информации тут (на французском).
#Benin#Brazil#Africa#slavery
Solomon Northup was a free Black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery for 12 years. He was freed on January 4, 1853. He wrote a book called Twelve Years a Slave about his life as a slave. His story helps people understand what slavery was like. 📚✊🏾
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🗒️🗣️ INTERVIEW | ‘Venezuela, the Threat of a Good Example’: A Conversation with Geraldina Colotti
In a world turned upside down, Italian activist Geraldina Colotti argues that no good deed and no sovereign project goes unpunished. She links the latest US escalation against Venezuela to what she describes as a broader imperial strategy amid a global capitalist crisis, citing sanctions, psychological operations, and an expanded US military footprint across Latin America and the Caribbean.
For Colotti, Venezuela remains a target because it disrupts this dynamic. Before the blockade, the country had nearly achieved the UN Millennium Goals, a record she says turned Venezuela into “the threat of a good example” that Washington moved to contain.
Read the full interview here 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/4H7sB
#MediaCoverage#USImperialism
📝 INTERVIEW | Building Communal Hegemony: A Conversation with Robert Longa
El Panal Commune’s main spokesperson talks about how communes might enter the Venezuelan constitution through an upcoming reform.
🔗 Read more in the latest VA interview here: https://venezuelanalysis.com/interviews/building-communal-hegemony-a-conversation-with-robert-longa/
#Communes#HugoChavez
#USImperialism
🗒️🗣️ INTERVIEW | Puerto Rico, US Imperialism and Venezuela’s Defiant Sovereignty: A Conversation with Déborah Berman Santana
From within a US colony, Puerto Rican geographer and activist Déborah Berman Santana argues in the latest VA interview that Washington’s “new” strategy closely resembles the old one.
The United States’ latest National Security Strategy refocuses on the Western Hemisphere, reaffirming claims to dominance over Latin America and the Caribbean. In Berman Santana’s assessment, the document openly restates a historic objective: hemispheric control, with Venezuela at the center due to its insistence on sovereignty and control over its resources.
She explains that Puerto Rico’s status as an unincorporated US territory enables this strategy in practice. With six US military bases on the island and a recent increase in air and naval activity, including the takeover of former civilian facilities, the United States can deploy forces across the Caribbean without consultation, using military pressure to influence Venezuela and signal limits on regional sovereignty.
Read the full interview here 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/NkaUd
#Caribbean#DonaldTrump#USImperialism