Venezuela

By Raquel Reichard Theres an uprising in the Caribbean. For more than a week, hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans have been protesting on the cobblestone streets of Old San Juan, Ponce, Mayagüez, and other towns on the island. The voices of elders, young …

On July 11, Puerto Rico’s Centro de Periodismo Investigativo journalists began releasing what would turn out to be 889 pages of a private chat between Governor Ricardo Rosselló and 11 male allies and members of his administration whom he referred to as his “b…

One year from now, the flame will be lit in Tokyo, the XXXII Olympic Summer Games will begin, and Americans will set aside their differences for at least 30 seconds before pushing each other into the fire. This is where we are, America. We have a year to deci…

Much of Venezuela's capital Caracas woke up with the lights back on after the worst blackout since March knocked out power in half of the country a day earlier, although service remained down in other states and some key oil infrastructure sites were still of…

Venezuelan officials are blaming an "electromagnetic attack" for a power outage that swept through the country. Venezuelans suffered a wide-ranging power outage on Monday around 4 p.m. The blackout crippled communications and wrought havoc on the countrys tr…

(Tribune News Service)  With no resolution in sight for Venezuelas leadership six months after the leader of the national assembly declared himself president, the Trump administration appears willing to offer guarantees to Nicolas Maduro that the U.S. will le…

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Venezuelan soldiers and policemen who deserted to Colombia protest after being evicted from the hotel where they were staying in Cúcuta in May. More than 1,400 members of Venezuelan security forces fled the country in February and March. Schneyder Mendoza/AF…

By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His latest book is “and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from B…

By Robert Coalson July 20, 2019 In 1994, the last Russian troops left Germany and the Baltic states, bringing a symbolic end to the Cold War. The same year saw the Rwandan genocide, and American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos launched an online bookseller called Am…