By Omar Vázquez Heredia Photograph: Matias Delacroix On June 24 Venezuela’s central coast was struck by two earthquakes of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude on the Richter scale. So far, according to official figures, the consequences of these natural disasters include 2,595 deaths, 12,400 injuries, 12,841 people left homeless, 189 collapsed buildings, and 565 partially collapsed … Continue reading For an Independent Truth and Justice Commission on the impact of the earthquakes
By Venezuelanvoices.org Donation recommendations at the end of the article Image: FUNVISIS map of seismic activity, June 24-26 On the afternoon of June 24, while many communities were celebrating San Juan Day—an important date in Afro-Venezuelan culture—two consecutive earthquakes shook the country, leaving thousands injured and missing, as well as a huge number of people … Continue reading Devastating earthquakes strike the north of Venezuela
Interview by Simón Rodríguez Image: Video capture from the December 2024 press conference in Caracas where Comunes was launched. Venezuelanvoices: Among those injured during the crackdown on the workers’ protest on April 9 in Caracas was university union leader Eduardo Sánchez, who suffered a broken rib. We stand in solidarity with Sánchez and his colleagues, … Continue reading Eduardo Sánchez: Venezuela should be neither dictatorship nor colony
Organizations We, the undersigned civil society organizations, human rights defenders, and environmental advocates, address the national and international community to warn of the grave threat posed by the new Organic Mining Law draft currently under discussion. This law is part of a long-standing context of systematic violations of social and environmental rights, disregard for the … Continue reading The Organic Mining Law draft institutionalizes ecocide and the laundering of “blood gold” in Venezuela
Venezuelan Workers Solidarity Photo: José Abreu On January 23, Venezuelan Workers Solidarity hosted a webinar with Antulio Rosales, Yoletty Bracho, Venus Faddoul and Omar Vazquez Heredia about the January 3 imperialist attack and its aftermath in Venezuela. Below are the English and Spanish versions of this discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y887MeCYH3Q In English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr_-J1Jyrt8 En español
Stanley Heller interviews Simón Rodríguez Photograph: Jeon Heon-Kyun, protest in Seoul, South Korea. Interview with Simón Rodríguez for The Struggle Video News on Jan. 5, 2026 days after US forces attacked Venezuela and kidnapped Maduro. https://youtu.be/3De2zzAB2KM?si=pCKvFFt_Mdn3Hm5y
By Omar Vázquez Heredia Picture: Gaby Oraa The US operation in Venezuela seems to have taken everyone by surprise: those who thought it would never happen and those who believed that Nicolás Maduro's "removal" would pave the way for María Corina Machado to take office in Miraflores Palace. Now a complex process is beginning, with … Continue reading Venezuela: the hour of perplexity
By Socialism and Freedom Party The Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL, for its initials in Spanish), Venezuelan section of the International Workers’ Unity-Fourth International, strongly condemns the brutal military aggression perpetrated by US imperialism against our country. In the early hours of Saturday, January 3, at approximately 1:50 a.m., the government of far-right leader Donald … Continue reading We categorically reject the United States’ aggression against Venezuela. Trump out of Venezuela and Latin America!
Interview with Miguel Angel Hernández of the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL) Picture: View of Los Magallanes de Catia, Oswaldo Pacheco What is the popular perception in Venezuela of US military threats? Is it a central concern for most people or is popular attention more focused on other issues? There is undoubtedly a real threat … Continue reading Venezuelan socialists reject Trump’s threats without supporting Maduro
By Simón Rodríguez* Photo: Machado and Uribe in Cúcuta, 2018 On October 10, it was announced that María Corina Machado had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The committee stated that it was rewarding her “tireless work promoting democratic rights” and her “struggle for a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.” It also … Continue reading María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize: A reading from the left opposition
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