Venezuela gegen Washington – Wird Trump mit Maduro sprechen?
Interview mit PressTV
| Von Peter Koenig und Press TVGlobal Research, 20. November 2025 Hintergrund Während US- Präsident Donald Trump seine Bereitschaft zu Gesprächen mit seinem venezolanischen Amtskollegen signalisiert hat, erklärt Nicolás Maduro , Caracas sei offen für einen direkten Dialog, weise aber „Drohungen oder Gewaltanwendung“ zurück. Maduro fügte hinzu, Venezuela sei zu Gesprächen mit jeder Nation bereit, warnte aber gleichzeitig vor ausländischer Aggression. Diese Äußerungen erfolgten, nachdem Trump gegenüber Reportern erklärt hatte, seine Regierung werde möglicherweise zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt mit Maduro sprechen, um die zunehmenden Spannungen zu erörtern. Trump schloss jedoch einen Einsatz amerikanischer Bodentruppen in Venezuela nicht aus. Seit Anfang September hat das US-Militär mindestens 20 Angriffe auf Schiffe im Pazifik und der südlichen Karibik durchgeführt. Washington behauptet, ohne Beweise vorzulegen, die Boote seien in Drogenhandel verwickelt gewesen. Caracas weist die Vorwürfe jedoch zurück und erklärt, die Angriffe zielten darauf ab, die venezolanische Regierung zu stürzen. Analysten argumentieren nun, Trumps Behauptung, er sei gesprächsbereit gegenüber Maduro, entspreche Washingtons Zuckerbrot-und-Peitsche-Politik und sei nicht aufrichtig. Read more |
What is really happening in Venezuela? US attacks and economic situation explaine
An analysis of Donald Trump’s attacks on Venezuela, the economic impact of US sanctions, and the similarities and differences with the successful Western regime-change war on Syria.
| Ben Norton Nov 15, 2025 A Chinese journalist interviewed Geopolitical Economy Report editor-in-chief Ben Norton about the situation in Venezuela, and his analysis was translated into Chinese. The following were his original remarks in English: QUESTION: Ben, you have traveled around Latin America extensively, including in Venezuela. I would like to hear your comments on Maduro. Is his government well supported by the Venezuelan people, or may he face a similar fate like Syria’s Bashar al-Assad? As you know, Trump is planning attacks inside Venezuela. So do you think Maduro’s government will fall like Assad’s? MY ANSWER: There are indeed some parallels between Venezuela and Syria, but there are more differences than similarities. Venezuela is very divided politically, but in general, the Bolivarian Revolution initiated by previous President Hugo Chávez and continued by current President Nicolás Maduro still has a lot of support from poor and working-class Venezuelans. Most rich people and elites are pro-US and anti-government. Many of them have left the country, but there are still some in Venezuela (especially in wealthy areas like Chacao). In Venezuela, most people are tired of political conflict and violence, and they simply want stability. The right-wing opposition does not have many active supporters inside the country. Whenever they try to hold a protest, only a few hundred people show up. However, while they are small in number, they still have a lot of power concentrated in private companies, media outlets, and Western government-funded “NGOs”. Maduro will not be overthrown by people inside Venezuela. The only possible way I think the Venezuelan government will fall is if the US military invades Venezuela and/or wages a direct war inside Venezuelan territory, bombing Caracas — like what the US did to Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia, Panama, Grenada, etc. (although the tactics used were different in each of those wars). Trump has already ordered the US military to kill dozens of Venezuelans in illegal, extrajudicial executions in international waters. Thus far, he has not launched direct attacks inside Venezuela, although he confirmed that he authorized the CIA to carry out destabilization operations inside the country. Read more |
Migration from Venezuela
Did 7+ million really leave the country to flee socialism?
| The Anti Empire Project and Joe Emersberger Nov 11, 2025 Daniel Coronel, a journalist with the US-based television network Univision, recently interviewed Colombian president Gustavo Petro. At about the 55 minute point of the interview, Coronel said to Petro that “the misery and repression that Venezuela has suffered at the hands of Maduro’s dictatorship has caused millions to flee.” This little quip, this off-hand remark, is actually one of the major remaining regime change talking points about Venezuela. We’ve addressed most of the others – the elections, the constitution, the notion that Venezuela is an “extraordinary threat” to the US – in our book. In a recent substack, we addressed the newest lie: that Venezuela is a meaningful source of drugs to the US. In this one we address the idea that Venezuela should be destroyed because supposedly seven million Venezuelans have fled socialism. We believe that anti-Maduro sources have 1. grossly exaggerated the scale of migration from Venezuela since 2015, 2. ignored that US sanctions have caused such migration as did occur, and 3. also ignored mass migration from U.S. client states like Ecuador. |
| 2015 – 2017 migration from Venezuela begins to take off for real As a result of US sanctions and an oil price collapse, migration from Venezuela did, indeed, begin to explode in 2015. A few months before Hugo Chavez died of cancer in 2013, he urged his supporters to vote for Nicolas Maduro as his successor. They did. Maduro won the snap election that was held in April 2013. But Maduro was immediately hit with violent US-backed protests that year – and then again in 2014 and 2017. Adding to Maduro’s difficulties, in the last quarter of 2014, the high oil prices on which Venezuela’s economy depended collapsed by half, and remained very low for years. Early in 2015, Obama added to the pressure by imposing broad economic sanctions on Venezuela. Obama’s apologists deny the significance of the sanctions by saying they merely outlawed dealing with seven Venezuelan government officials that the US accused of human rights abuses. But this ignores the problem of “over compliance” with US sanctions, built into their design: scaring investors away from dealing with Venezuela at all. In addition to the sanctions, Obama officials successfully pressured banks not to make low risk loans to Venezuela’s government. Read more |
Washington Targets Colombia’s Progressive President in Unprecedented Sanctions Move
Human rights attorney and legal counsel for Gustavo Petro in the United States, Dan Kovalik, calls U.S. sanctions against the Colombian President “a threat to democracy.”
| In a dramatic escalation of U.S.-Colombian tensions, President Gustavo Petro of Colombia has been sanctioned by the United States over allegations of drug trafficking, a move his legal counsel calls politically motivated and potentially destabilizing for the region. The sanctions, announced on Friday, October 24, mark a rare confrontation between Washington and a sitting Colombian leader, a country historically regarded as a steadfast U.S. ally in Latin America. Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor attorney, political activist, and author, recently accepted the role of representing President Petro in the United States. Kovalik, who previously taught international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and served as in-house counsel for the United Steel Workers, has a long history of litigating cases involving human rights violations in Colombia. His work has included lawsuits under the Alien Tort Claims Act against major corporations implicated in egregious abuses, including Coca-Cola, Drummond and Occidental Petroleum, highlighting systemic violence and exploitation against labor organizers and social movements in the region. Speaking from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a special edition of WTF is Going On in Latin America and the Caribbean, Kovalik described the sanctions as “not just a personal threat to President Petro and his family, but a significant risk to Colombia’s economic stability and political sovereignty.” Read more |
