In 1980, Venezuela’s infant mortality rate ranked 58th best in the world, far below Cuba, whose infant mortality rate was 28th that…
Venezuela has been an important oil exporter since the 1920s. See this essay for historical details. As the chart below shows, It…
Please note that improbable doesn’t mean impossible. Who would watch sports or buy lottery tickets if very improbable things could not happen?…
Removing the threat of US -backed coups from the world will involve a constant struggle against Western media and the sources they present to us as reliable
This superb speech by Venezuelan-Canadian scholar Maria Páez de Victor should soon be up on www.NoSanctions.org , but I decided to post it…
Lies of omission characterize Reuters coverage of Latin American politics
Trump incited his supporters to violently storm the Capitol Building in Washington DC in an attempt to revive his failed efforts to…
It’s clear that technical departments within the UN sometimes have their work corrupted by the US government and its allies. Consider recent…
One of the reasons people may get duped into seeing Venezuelan politician Leopoldo López as a victim is his trial which began…
On September 15, UN investigators ( the so called “Mission”) published a 411 page report about the human rights situation in Venezuela.[1] …
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