Venezuela

Junior “Spirit” Cottle
The US Military Blockade – Its Potential Impact on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
25 Mar 2026
St. Vincent legalized medicinal cannabis in 2018, but the industry cannot take off while US warships enforce a blockade. A nation cannot build a legal economy under military threat.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Cuba, Venezuela and Regime Change
18 Mar 2026
Regime change is possible but not inevitable. Forces claiming to be leftist and claiming to be revolutionary must actually live up to the true meaning of those words.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist , Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
What is the 'Left' in the Era of Global Fascism
18 Mar 2026
There is no coherent and sustained leftist movement at the very moment that U.S. led global fascism is accelerating.
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
The Light of Palestine Will Lead the Way to Global Liberation
18 Mar 2026
Black Agenda Report Editor and Columnist, Ajamu Baraka, recently gave a presentation at the 4th International Conference “Palestine: The Nation’s Central Cause.”
Pablo Meriguet
Shield of the Americas: Trump’s New Tool for Hemispheric Military Coordination
17 Mar 2026
The agreement was signed by more than a dozen right-wing and far-right Latin American governments and ensures Washington’s dominance and leadership in the Americas.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Everything they touch turns to rubble
11 Mar 2026
"Everything they touch turns to rubble" is the latest from BAR's Poet-in-Residence.
Orinoco Times staff
Chavista Grassroots Rebuke Venezuelan Government’s Ambivalent Statement on US-Israeli Aggression Against Iran
04 Mar 2026
The difference between the responses to the U.S. and Israeli bombings of Iran by grassroots Chavista organizations and the Venezuelan government demonstrates the importance of people's movements,…
Tamanisha J. John , Kevin Edmonds
The Caribbean People’s Debt to Cuba
25 Feb 2026
Caribbean governments are betraying Cuba through silence and compliance with U.S. empire. The only way to challenge this failure of leadership is for the people to build an anti-imperialist movement.
Prince Kapone
Reuters’ ‘Market Story’ and the American Pole: PetroChina, Venezuelan Oil, and the Siege That Calls Itself Trade
04 Feb 2026
Reuters sells custodial plunder as a pricing issue, turning blockade into “market caution.” We restore the missing record: seizures, supervision, and the re-routing of Venezuelan oil revenue through…
Ann Garrison, BAR Contributing Editor
Trump Defends the Dollar in Venezuela and Democrats Are Glad
28 Jan 2026
The US invaded Venezuela and kidnapped Nicólas Maduro to defend the dominance of the US dollar. Venezuela had been selling oil to China in China’s currency, the yuan.