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Sanctions, the information war, and the American sabotage

Talks are not even taking place in the same city, since there are at least two sets of discussions ongoing.

Canada is one of the leaders of the Lima Group, a network of countries that came together in 2017 with the express purpose of regime change in Venezuela.

Trump—with Bolton and Pence—seek to provoke a war. These are dangerous men with a dangerous agenda.

The bombs start again. Israel, as if on a timer, begins to pulverize Gaza. The bombs strike from one end of the country to another, a warning against the protests that have been ongoing for a year.

People like her, she says, have their own criticisms of government policy, but this is—as she put it—an internal debate. “We can deal with the internal struggle,” she says, “and we will fight against any attack on Venezuela. We will defend ourselves.

Their message is simple: if you won’t let us breathe, we won’t let you breathe, and if you suffocate Venezuela, you suffocate us

Trump’s Venezuela playbook is disturbingly familiar.

Nine months before the dam was ruptured, the mining company admitted in an internal document that the dam was weak and that its collapse would cause a large loss of life

“I tell the people,” Maduro said, “this presidential sash is yours. The power of this sash is yours. It does not belong to the oligarchy or to imperialism. It belongs to the sovereign people of Venezuela.”