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US puppets of the world, unite! A fancy initiative featuring the who's who of US surrogates. It's quite
funny tbh. A "non-ideological gathering" (code for right wing) with a "commitment to freedom and democracy" (code for pushing US interests)

worldlibertycongress.org
It features absolute muppets like Garry Kasparov and, as you'd expect, the Venezuelan representative is fascist poster boy Leopoldo López who is abroad fleeing charges and yearning for a US invasion that might restore what he thought was a God-given destiny to rule Venezuela
Needless to say, these spineless US puppets are always in favor of murderous sanctions. No amount of civilian deaths is regrettable as long as they get to seat on the throne and serve their imperial masters #SanctionsKill
Let’s do a fun exercise and look at the World Liberty Congress goals in the case of Leopoldo López
1. Free and fair elections:he was well beaten in opposition primaries + always favored coups
2.The rule of law: again,loves coups and deadly sanctions that violate international law
(see above)
3.Respect for human rights (get a spell checker!): he was convicted for his role in violent opposition protests that caused dozens of deaths + endorses deadly sanctions
4.Restoration of blablabla: again, this is just code for “trying to place a US puppet in power”

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Mar 28
🧵🧵More trouble for CITGO thanks to the treacherous incompetence of the former "interim government" led by legendary buffoon @jguaido. We'll have a report on this tomorrow but here's a quick thread in the meantime
In a nutshell, 4 more corporations have joined a Delaware court-ordered auction of CITGO shares to collect on a combined $1.6 billion worth of arbitration awards ($2.5B + accrued interests). This @Reuters piece has some details (+ traditional dishonesty): reut.rs/3TQFmml
To make a long story short, corporate-friendly arbitration courts ruled in favor of several companies in disputes w/ Venezuela (over nationalizations). And then a corporate-friendly judge ruled that they could seize CITGO shares as compensation to collect on those debts
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Mar 26
Though there are plenty of mighty rivals, the @NYTimes remains the gold standard when it comes to imperialist propaganda. Let’s look at another example riddled with biased takes and outright falsehoods (nyti.ms/3LSaLDh) [thread]
This has all the corporate media hallmarks. First, a description of an “implosion” without any causes (first the oil price crash and then murderous US sanctions). And then the gratuitous “authoritarian” label to establish Maduro as the “bad guy” and thus justify regime-change
There are also typical inaccuracies. Sanctions did more than “decimate finances”, they affected every aspect of the economy. And the US hasn’t “scaled back” anything, it gave A SINGLE LICENSE to US corporation Chevron but w/ all sorts of hurdles so Venezuela doesn’t get income
Read 12 tweets
Mar 1
Washington’s blockade against Venezuela has wreaked inestimable damage to the economy, destroying thousands of lives.

These deadly measures, imposed as “punishment” for defying the colonialist Monroe Doctrine, were designed to trigger regime change.

A summary 👇🧵
Venezuela's oil industry was re-nationalized by Hugo Chávez, breaking foreign corporations' control and putting resources at the service of the people with numerous social programs.

It is no coincidence that Washington targeted this industry with sanctions since 2017 👇
No sector of the Venezuelan economy has been spared by Washington's multi-pronged aggression, from mining operations to the banking system.

Even the country's 31 tonnes of gold (worth over $1.5bn) in the Bank of England (supposedly for safekeeping!) were seized! 👇
Read 6 tweets
Feb 28
🧵The neverending love affair between the corporate media and fascism. For all the talk (or b.s. really) about being gatekeepers of civilization, establishment outlets have yet to meet a Global South politician they deem to be too far right. Let's look at another example (thread)
The article in question is from bourgeois mouthpiece Bloomberg (@business) and fawns over aspiring presidential candidate María Corina Machado. From the get-go she's described as a "conservative firebrand" which is code for "fascist"

This is the link (bloom.bg/3Y9xj4R)
The title is already misleading. Machado hasn't been a lawmaker for almost 10 years. And Chávez didn't "mock" her as much as say he had better things to do than engage w/ her fascist nonsense. A better headline would be "US invasion proponent wants to be president" (more below)
Read 22 tweets
Feb 20
News 🧵 The emergence of a reunited Latin America!

Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and Colombia's Gustavo Petro held a meeting on the border and signed a new deal to revive trade between the two nations.

Venezuela will also reopen its maritime border with Aruba on May 1.
We just opened the second season of our podcast by putting the spotlight on US sanctions, their impact on Venezuela, and international solidarity efforts to oppose them.

With guest @MichelleEllner and VA editor Ricardo Vaz.

Listen and share!

venezuelanalysis.com/audio/15705
Speaking of solidarity vs. sanctions, earlier this week Venezuela dispatched humanitarian aid and a team of rescue workers to Latakia, in northwestern Syria, which had received little assistance due to Washington's years-long sanctions.

venezuelanalysis.com/news/15704
Read 7 tweets
Feb 19
🧵🗞️The level of dishonesty of @Reuters' Venezuela coverage is just staggering. Here's a piece on trade agreements between Venezuela and Colombia (reut.rs/3k7FcJZ). It has 8 bland paragraphs, very little context, and then boom! Propaganda on steroids (thread)
So many lies packed into a couple dozen words. Look at how it's framed. The evil Maduro broke off relations b/c he didn't want "aid" that "activists" were trying to send. First things first: there was, by USAID's own admission, very little aid in those trucks
Secondly, "opposition activists" is along the lines of the "moderate rebels" in Syria and the "no-longer-Nazis" in Ukraine. Their "activist" kit included Molotov cocktails that ended up burning one of the "aid" trucks. Corporate media ran w/ the debunked lie for a long time
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