By Simรณn Rodrรญguez Photo: Greenpeace August 28, the US government and the semi-colonial Venezuelan dictatorship announce a โhistoricโ oil deal with great fanfare. Nobody knows what it actually entails. The US (the government, US companies โ which ones?) would invest $100 billion in 17 oil fields and pay $209 billion in taxes. That is what … Continue reading The mafia-style oil deal between Delcy Rodrรญguez and Donald Trump
Venezuelanvoices.org Photo posted by Gideon Saar on X One of the consequences of the US attack on Venezuela on January 3 and the subsequent political realignment between Delcy Rodrรญguez's de facto government and US imperialism has been a renewed discussion about relations between Venezuela and the genocidal state of Israel. Recent developments, such as the … Continue reading Machado meets Israeli Foreign Minister and Venezuelan crude is delivered to the genocidal apartheid State
By Socialism and Freedom Party (PSL) Photograph: Delcy Rodrรญguez 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, Nicolรกs Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were kidnapped, an act that … Continue reading No to a pact with Trump to deepen the surrender of our oil and resources!
Stanley Heller interviews Simรณn Rodrรญguez Photograph: Jeon Heon-Kyun, protest in Seoul, South Korea. Interview with Simรณn Rodrรญguez 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 Venezuelan VoicesPhoto Credit: Image taken from @ MIJPVenezuela Alfredo Chirinos and Aryenis Torrealba were detained by the DGCIM (General Directorate of Military Counter-Intelligence) on February 28th at their workplace at PDVSA La Campiรฑa, Caracas, where they held positions as operations managers. The arrests were possibly carried out at the orders of the โAli Rodriguez … Continue reading Purge in PDVSA
The new sanctions aim at destroying whatโs left of the Venezuelan economy, which already shrank by more than half in the last five years of Maduro's brutal adjustment plan.
For Josรฉ Bodas, general secretary of the Unitary Federation of Oil Workers (FUTPV), the scarcity of gasoline is a consequence of the state of disaster of our refineries.
While millions migrate out of the country, and the Petro-State falters, a new process of accumulation by dispossession can be seen from the ground. Teran-Mantovani guides us through an exploration of the geographies of extraction and plunder in Venezuela.
"We are fighting for our rights, for union autonomy, for our right to bargain collectively, for decent wages, for better working conditions."
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