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Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Venezuelan American community at the Florida International University Ocean Bank Convocation Center on February 18, 2019, in Miami, Florida.

With Trump, polarization among Venezuelans reaches new heights

Steve Ellner — Washington’s Venezuela policy has intensified divisions within the opposition, revealing class divides and fears over the fallout from a potential US invasion.
Transport workers, university students, and Generation Z groups—represented by the One Piece symbol—leading the march toward Congress in Lima. (Stifs Paucca Suárez)

Peru’s Gen Z helps bring down the president

Lucero Chávez — Inspired by a global wave of protest, Peru's youth protesters have turned social media outrage into mass mobilization against corruption and repression.
Trump face

Venezuelan socialist groups: Stop imperialist aggression against Venezuela! Trump’s troops out of the Caribbean and Latin America!

Trump’s military deployment opens the door to a possible armed intervention by the United States in Venezuela.
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that they bombed another boat in the Caribbean on October 3, 2025. (Photo: screenshot/Donald Trump/Truth Social)

Murder in the Caribbean: How should we interpret the dramatic escalation in US policy towards Venezuela?

Gabriel Hetland — Trump’s recent actions should be understood as part of a longstanding pattern of US aggression towards the Maduro regime. Yet there are also notable distinctions.
Montage by Global Voices, featuring U.S. President-elect Trump (image from Flickr, under CC BY-SA 2.0) and the map of Latin America

Latin America: The target of Trump’s neocolonial offensive

Ana Cristina Carvalhaes & Luis Bonilla-Molina — Trump wants to impose the rule that “the United States runs the planet.” But why are Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela his most immediate targets?
Venezuela boat

Venezuela: Surgentes condemns US interference and extrajudicial execution of 17 Venezuelans

Faced with the United States’ hostile military presence in the Southern Caribbean since August 2025, the human rights collective Surgentes issued the following statement.
Trump and Maduro

Two statement by the Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee (Venezuela): ‘Mobilise against Trump’s offensive’ and ‘On Maduro’s call for a trade union constituent assembly’

Autonomous and Independent Workers’ Committee — The united mobilisation of the Latin American people, together with US and Canadian workers, is urgently needed to block Trump’s threats and attacks.
Tatuy TV graphic 18 years

TatuyTV (Venezuela): Unity and criticism in times of imperial siege

TatuyTV — We must never lose sight of the historic enemy, but neither must we forget the socialist horizon along the way.
PCC graphic La Joven

Cuba: The Communist Party shows no signs of life

Harold Cardenas Lema — The Cuban Communist Party Central Committee Plenary Session in July offered the party leadership an opportunity to frankly acknowledge the scale of the current crisis. It failed to do so.
Comunes antes la amenaza imperialista

Two statements from Comunes (Venezuela): ‘Against the imperialist threat’ and ‘The Maduro government fears the people’

Comunes — We will defend the homeland, confront imperialism, and denounce the right, but we will also fight against this neoliberal and authoritarian government.
Venezuelan workers

Defending Venezuela’s sovereignty from a working-class perspective

Salvador De León looks at the situation facing Venezuelan workers and trade unions, the Nicolás Maduro government’s economic policies, and defending sovereignty from a working-class perspective.
Maduro productive economy

Anti-imperialism and Maduro’s Venezuela: Myths and facts

Dante Espinoza takes a look at the available data on Venezuela’s economy and communes to see how well claims the Maduro government is progressive and anti-imperialist stack up.

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