Mark Weisbrot

'Economic Terrorism': After Failed Military Coup Attempt, Trump Imposes Total Embargo Against Venezuela

"The U.S. gov is telling the Venezuelan people that if they want to eat, they have to change their politics."

Jake Johnson, staff writer · Aug 6, 2019

Western Media Losing Enthusiasm for Failing Coup in Venezuela

Lucas Koerner · Jul 24, 2019

U.S. Sanctions: Economic Sabotage That Is Deadly, Illegal, and Ineffective

Medea Benjamin · Jun 17, 2019

Big Media Get Big Things Wrong on Venezuela

Janine Jackson · Jun 15, 2019

Study Linking US Sanctions to Venezuelan Deaths Buried By Reuters for Over a Month

Joe Emersberger · Jun 14, 2019

Puerto Rico’s Botched Disaster Relief, Unsustainable Debt, and Economic Failure Linked to its Colonial Status

How can this scale of corruption, overseen by the US Congress, even happen? 

Mark Weisbrot · Jun 1, 2019

"I Apologize to No One" for Opposing Disastrous US Wars in Vietnam and Iraq, Says Bernie Sanders

"This is great: Bernie tell tells the pro-war crowd and their enablers to bring it on."

Jon Queally, staff writer · May 24, 2019

The Plot to Kill Venezuela

And who is caught between an economy reliant on oil revenues and a sanctions regime designed to create suffering? The people caught in the squeeze of factors beyond their control.

Vijay Prashad · May 13, 2019

What's Next: War With Venezuela?

Maybe the (eventual) war in Venezuela could be privatized!

Robert C. Koehler · May 10, 2019

In Venezuela, Trump Administration Content to Support a Military Coup But Not Nation's Refugees

"What this administration has demonstrated again and again over the last several years is that crises and vulnerability … have not been the factors that have moved them."

Jon Queally, staff writer · May 5, 2019

Biden Sides With Trump, Bolton, and Pompeo in Backing Coup Effort in Venezuela

Democratic frontrunner characterizes effort to overthrow elected goverment of President Nicolas Maduro at gunpoint just another benign effort to "restore democracy" in Latin America

Jon Queally, staff writer · May 1, 2019

Economists Warn Trump's Sanctions Targeting Venezuela 'A Death Sentence for Tens of Thousands of People'

"It's a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people."

Jessica Corbett, staff writer · Apr 25, 2019

'It Is Not Enough to Simply Oppose US Military Intervention': A Response to WOLA on Venezuela

The Washington Office on Latin America has yet to offer any explanation for why they do not oppose the Trump administration's illegal regime change effort in Venezuela, nor do they recognize the enormous damage that the president and his allies have done and continue to do

Greg Grandin · Apr 13, 2019