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Latin America: A hostage to Trump's United States

Ana C. Carvalhaes — 2026-07-18T09:07:41Z

The largest region of the Americas is the only part of the planet where Trump has managed to make significant progress toward his national security policy goals. Trump faces significant difficulties on the domestic front, where he is trying to limit the predicted defeat for the midterm congressional elections in November.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / United States (USA), Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Latin America, Bolivia

Internationalist solidarity with the Venezuelan people

Fourth International Bureau — 2026-07-10T11:23:17Z

“Popular mobilisation is crucial in a country that has endured repeated crises, a blockade and the deterioration of public services in recent years, and it gives full meaning to the saying ‘Only the people can save the people'. ”

- News from around the world / Venezuela, Solidarity after disasters

215 years after Venezuela's Declaration of Independence: Long live the republic

Collective — 2026-07-05T07:42:08Z

The massive demonstrations of popular solidarity following the earthquakes that shook the country on June 24 have once again shown us that no hardship can destroy the moral and spiritual foundation that defines us as a nation. We have responded to the destructive and deadly seismic energy with the restorative energy of humanity. With the same unyielding spirit that our Liberator Simón Bolívar displayed in the face of the earthquake of March 26, 1812, we will overcome this painful situation, and with the same resolve of yesterday and today, all patriotic forces will fight to regain our independence.

- IVP618 - July 2026 / Venezuela

In the time of predators

Antoine Larrache, Franck Gaudichaud, Héctor A. Rivera — 2026-03-05T14:52:00Z

The attack against Venezuela in early January and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are part of the new U.S. strategy within the broader reorganization of the world and of inter-imperialist power relations. This aggressive strategy notably involves increased economic pressure and direct military interventionism toward Latin America.

- IVP614 - March 2026 / Venezuela, Cuba, Latin America

The process of accumulating wealth in the formation of a new Venezuelan bourgeoisie (2002-2026)

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-02-14T19:59:35Z

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the exploitation of oil in Venezuela has shaped particular characteristics of capitalist development: the formation of social classes and their political representation, the model of bourgeois enrichment, and forms of social control. The Brazilian economist Celso Furtado defined the Venezuelan case as “underdevelopment with an abundance of foreign exchange,” manifested in deindustrialisation, corruption, rapid concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, and severe poverty crises.

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Economy, Venezuela

Venezuela after the coup

Ashley Smith, Federico Fuentes — 2026-02-12T11:03:04Z

“Some … have argued that as the government is still largely intact, nothing has fundamentally changed. But … the balance of forces on which this government rests has fundamentally changed.”

- Venezuela 2026 / Venezuela

Redemocratise society and politics to overcome the colonial situation

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-02-06T10:50:00Z

“To tell the truth, however painful it may be, there are no possibilities at this time for unified mobilisations that demonstrate anti-imperialist national unity. Maduro's regime has led us to this disaster.”

- IVP613 - February 2026 / Venezuela

Epitaph for a Revolution?

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-01-24T16:46:40Z

“The central task is to defend the homeland's sovereignty with anti-imperialism from those who live by their labour—that is, every step in defence of the Republic must be accompanied by the demand for redemocratisation of Venezuelan society and wage justice. There is no territorial sovereignty without political sovereignty.“

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Venezuela

Venezuelan trade unionists speak to us

Collective — 2026-01-14T17:09:15Z

The International Trade Union Network of Solidarity and Struggles is passing on information received from trade union comrades in Venezuela. With Venezuela, as with Palestine, as with Ukraine, as with Sudan, as everywhere else in the world, nothing can replace direct contact between workers. For our social class, it is the best source of information and the best way to build common struggles.

- News from around the world / Venezuela, Trade unions/workplace organizing

Trumpist recolonization and the coming resistance in Venezuela

Luís Bonilla-Molina — 2026-01-09T07:44:00Z

“Up to 2 January, the main task of revolutionaries was to recover the minimum democratic freedoms that would allow the working class to express its opinion and organize itself to confront the imperialist offensive and the authoritarian drift of the Maduro government. Since 3 January, and after the White House's announcements of turning Venezuela into a gringo colony, the priority has become the defence of national independence with the broadest regime of political freedoms for patriotic forces. The facts will tell if the situation evolves towards a stage of national liberation.”

- IVP612 - January 2026 / Venezuela