About us

This is an initiative by Venezuelan activists to bring to a broader English speaking public the voices of Venezuelan independent and left opposition activists, as well as articles and news about the hardships and struggles of the oppressed and exploited in this South American country, often misunderstood in spite of the worldwide attention brought to it by the political crisis. Against Venezuelan government oriented venezuelasplaining and pro intervention mainstream distortions, we attempt to help Venezuelan voices be heard…

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  1. I have never believed the Bolivarian ‘revolution’ was really socialist, even if the masses made certain gains. As you have documented, Maduro is moving to an accommodation with sectors of Venezuelan capital.and repression against popular opposition is increasing. Here in Canada, the solidarity movement has closed ranks with Maduro against imperialism without giving him political support. I basically agree with this orientation. How do you see addressing the contradiction of opposing Ottawa and Washington’s campaign for regime change and the sanctions it is imposing while coming to the defence of political and social rights in Venezuela? (the same question could also be posed, in its essentials, to Syria and Iran)?

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    1. Thank you for your question. Our answer is: Simply by not silencing demands on the Venezuelan government as well, such as demanding freedom for workers who are political prisoners, denouncing the absence of democratic rights and echoing the demands of feminists for the right to legal abortion, trade unionists who demand the right to have independent unions and the right to strike or to have a wage that enables a person to eat for a whole month, indigenous peoples who demand their territories be free of mining transnationals and military thugs, all these basic things should be said. Denouncing sanctions and imperialist interference is correct but if nothing else is done then there is no true internationalist solidarity with the Venezuelan working class.

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      1. hi,

        bumped upon this page via your article about zio disasterwashing at NewArab.com. several others have reported about it too (21stcenturywire.com. Attackthesystem.com).

        I wonder what your opinions are about these:

        “Venezuela’s turn to Isr@el is about survival, not conviction”. Delcy Rodriguez is courting Isr@el only to secure Washington’s support and undercut her main rival, by Carlos Eduardo Pina, Al Jazeera

        Venezuelanalysis.com

        Craig Murray in Venezuela

        And these sneakily not mentioning none of the zio collaboration at all:

        https://www.workers.org/2026/08/94290/ via PopularResistance.org

        (reminds me of codepink)

        thanks

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      2. Hi,
        Workers World is full acritical campism. Venezuelanalysis can be described as critical maduristas (they fully endorsed Maduro but have given space to some partial criticism of Delcy). Craig Murray, completely unserious commentator when it comes to Venezuela. The distinction between what a government defines as a strategy and what rulers actually might think is not as important as Carlos Eduardo Piña thinks. Governments should be judged primarily for what they do, not what analysts think they might think. When Delcy Rodríguez, as Foreign Miniser, promised Isaac Cohen in 2017-2018 that relations with Israel would be restored, the regime had not yet folded completely to US imperialism, was it then a sincere opinion or was it about survival also? When they decided in those years not to honour their promise of restoring relations was it about survival or conviction? Those questions lead nowhere and are therefore useless.
        (The editors)

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      3. Hi.

        I thought my comment didn’t get posted, maybe it needed moderation first? It didnt say so. It just kept on asking me to log in, which i had done…Nevertheless, im not a fan of this technology (WordPress. Social media) so I’m happy I can reply through here.

        I appreciate the swift reply and I agree. I didn’t read the al Jazeera one yet, but indeed, what was her bs excuse back then? It’s just so nauseating and a gigantic betrayal to all the victims of the genocidal zionist maniacs! Thanking these savage war kkkriminals? I’m actually pretty pissed off, her and Maduro Jr. are disgusting vendidos perfumados !!! Jr. sure fooled Craig Murray and them workers giving him the award for his dad. He gave me a bad vibe then already.

        So I will definitely email workers world and popular resistance who originally posted it.

        And where is codepink? I always thought they were more critical and very active on Palestine! And Craig Murray too, I respected him for his diverse travels (Lebanon was courageous) and legal fight for Palestine until I read something about protecting a potential predator politician…I stopped reading him. But I will contact him regardless.

        But you know, none will probably reply to me. Codepink are shady, they reply ones yet say nothing. Never seen them here in Chicago protesting.

        venezuelanalysis.com never replied..

        Been there, done that!

        The fact you replied and so fast is an anomaly but it shouldn’t be like that! Why are us leftists our own enemy?!

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