📑🖊 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
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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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🗒️🗣️ 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
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📝 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/
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🗒️🗣️ 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
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Steve Ellner counters critics who distort Gramsci’s concepts to frame the second wave of Latin America's Pink Tide as capitulation, asserting that governments like Venezuela's still play a pivotal role in resisting US imperialism.
Read the full analysis here 👉🏼https://shorturl.at/yMlcG
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🗒️🗣️ INTERVIEW | Grenada, Venezuela and the Logic of Empire: A Conversation with Chester Humphrey
In the latest VA interview, veteran Grenadian revolutionary Chester Humphrey draws stark parallels between the 1983 U.S. invasion of Grenada and today’s military buildup against Venezuela. He warns that the narrative of “narco-terrorism” echoes the fabricated pretexts of the past, and reveals that Washington is pressuring Grenada to host radar infrastructure tied to potential military action.
Humphrey also calls for unity among revolutionary movements and emphasizes deepening people-to-people solidarity throughout the Caribbean.
Read the full interview here 👉🏾https://shorturl.at/z1TuF
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Llanisca Lugo, a Cuban intellectual and Representative in Cuba's Popular Power National Assembly, discusses the impact of imperialist blockades on Cuba and Venezuela, highlighting the significance of Venezuelan communes as models of collective organization.
"We are also inspired by the Venezuelan communes. While they may not be perfect, it's clear that when people organize themselves, collectively manage day-to-day affairs, and produce the goods they need, then a community of equals emerges," Lugo emphasizes.
Read the full interview here 👉🏼https://shorturl.at/awy23
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📝 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
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🎙🔊 Episode 43 of the VA Podcast is live!
The Venezuelanalysis Podcast is back. In our new season premiere, we tackle the fallout of the January 3rd military escalation against Caracas, an event that marks a volatile new chapter in the long history of US intervention in the region.
Join Venezuelanalysis Lead Editor Ricardo Vaz, Associate Editor Lucas Koerner, and VA Founder Greg Wilpert as they break down the geopolitical shift from "maximum pressure" to direct confrontation. This episode goes beyond the headlines to analyze the underlying causes and the global consequences of Washington’s renewed focus on "its" hemisphere.
Watch the full episode here 👉https://youtu.be/NKuCNIxn2MA
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🎥 VIDEO |“They [the US] are looking for oil. It’s not drug trafficking. It’s the oil,” President Nicolás Maduro told Rafael Correa during an interview on Tuesday.
Maduro recalled that Venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves, estimated at 303 billion barrels, as well as the fourth-largest gas reserves, and potentially the world's largest gold reserves. He stated that these vast resources were the primary reason for the Trump administration’s ramped-up threats of regime change against Venezuela.
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