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Venezuela

Warning of 'Severe' Harm to Millions of People, UN Human Rights Chief Condemns Trump Embargo Against Venezuela

Citing Racist Massacres and 'Inexcusable' Prevalence of Guns, Foreign Countries Issue Travel Safety Warnings for United States

Julia Conley, staff writer

"The world is watching."

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

Jake Johnson, staff writer

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

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'It Is Not a Forum for Coup-Mongering,' Venezuelan Official Says After US Walks Out of Arms Control Conference

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We regret that the representative of the United States and its docile allies...

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embassy protectors

Venezuelan Government Denounces US Seizure of Embassy, Arrest of Peace Activists as Violation of Vienna Convention

Medea Benjamin speaks at the U. S. Hands Off Venezuela rally in Washington, D.C. on March 16, 2019.

To Counter Trump's Hawks, CodePink's Medea Benjamin Says It's Time to "Build Up an Anti-War Movement Again"

Juan Guaidó Makes Open Plea for US Military 'Coordination' in Venezuela After Failed Coup Attempt

Medea Benjamin and Ariel Gold of CodePink during a news conference outside the Venezuelan Embassy on April 25, 2019.

'Dangerous and Appalling': US Defenders of Venezuelan Embassy Demand Secret Service End Illegal Water and Power Shutoff

Despite International Law Which Would Make It Illegal, Pompeo Claims US Attack on Venezuela "Would Be Lawful"

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

Pointing to Disastrous History of US Intervention, Sanders Warns Against Military Action in Venezuela

embassy standoff

Peace Activists Arrested While Trying to Deliver Food and Medicine to Blockaded DC Venezuelan Embassy

Pompeo Says US Prepared to Take Military Action in Venezuela "If That's What's Required"

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

"If This Isn't an 'Armed Coup,' Then What the Hell Is?" US Denounced for Backing Attempted Overthrow in Venezuela

Mike Pence Confirms: 'We Are With' Coup Plotters in Venezuela

Further

Fire and Brimstone Hit Google's Blasphemous Peeps-Hating Socialists for Their Doodle of Chavez

The lovely Google Doodle of Cesar Chávez on Sunday, which would have marked the labor leader's 86th birthday, evidently didn't sit well with many right-wingers, who took to the blogosphere to shriek about conspiracy and sacrilege against poor Jesus and the Easter Bunny by that lousy Marxist dictator from Venezuela (really). They thus prove we need Chávez' message of respect for all - even brown-skinned - more than ever.

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Green Party of the US

Green Party of the United States Statement—Venezuelan Embassy

CODEPINK

Venezuelan Opposition Blockading Venezuelan Embassy in DC Blockading Building, Refusing to Allow Medicine and Food Inside

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Report Finds US Sanctions on Venezuela Are Responsible for Tens of Thousands of Deaths

Peace Action

Peace Action: Iraq War Anniversary Reminds Us That Regime Change Has a Disastrous Track Record

CODEPINK

Activists Arrested During Elliot Abrams Testimony in Congressional Hearing on Venezuela

Democratic Socialists of America

Stop Dangerous and Counterproductive US Intervention in Venezuela

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H. Patricia Hynes

Economic Sanctions: War by Another Name

Lucas Koerner

NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela

Reese Erlich

Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace

Lucas Koerner, Ricardo Vaz

Western Media Losing Enthusiasm for Failing Coup in Venezuela

Mina Shahinfar

What Sanctions Mean for My Iranian-American Family

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies

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

Celina della Croce

Why Venezuela Is the Vietnam of Our Time

Janine Jackson

Big Media Get Big Things Wrong on Venezuela

Joe Emersberger

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

Justin Podur

Sanctions Are Genocidal, and They Are the US's Favorite Weapon