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
El Tiempo March 31.- Once again, José Bodas, secretary general of the Unitary Federation of Oil Workers of Venezuela (FUTPV), urged the government to release the 126 citizens linked to the oil industry who remain in detention for “political reasons.” Seventeen months after they were deprived of their liberty, and despite the approval of the … Continue reading Secretary general of the oil workers’ federation demands the release of oil workers who have been detained 17 months for political reasons
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
By Venezuelanvoices.org Picture: Aporrea.org On Wednesday, January 28, a group of left-opposition organizations protested in Morelos Square in Caracas and presented a letter to the Ombudsman's Office, rejecting US military aggression and the Venezuelan government's collaboration with Trump, as well as demanding democratic rights. This is the text of the letter delivered delivered to the … Continue reading Left-opposition organizations denounce government collaboration with US imperialism and raise democratic demands
Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL) Photograph: Delcy Rodríguez is sowrn in by the National Assembly as interim president On January 3, the government of far-right Donald Trump carried out a criminal attack against our country. As a result of the military operation, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were kidnapped, an act that we … Continue reading No to a pact with Trump to deepen the surrender of our oil and resources!
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 Roberto López Sánchez The US attack on Venezuela in the early hours of Saturday, January 3, 2026, constitutes the greatest US empire aggression against a Latin American country in this century. Donald Trump has violated all international law in force since 1945 and has returned humanity to a scenario similar to that of 1936, … Continue reading An initial assessment of the US attack on Venezuela
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
Stanley Heller interviews Simón Rodríguez In an interview for The Struggle Video News, Simón Rodríguez discusses the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who dedicated it to US president Donald Trump, in the context of a brutal persecution against Venezuelan migrants in the US, increasing repression inside Venezuela against all … Continue reading María Corina Machado’s ignoble peace prize
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