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Posted By Joshua Scheer With reporting from the streets of Caracas and analysis from Vijay Prashad, BreakThrough News breaks down what’s unfolding in Venezuela — from local resistance to the United States’ emerging new Monroe Doctrine. Venezuelan journalist Andreína Chávez Alava, reporting from Caracas, describes the aftermath of the U.S. strikes and the capture of […]

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By Joshua Scheer Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s embattled president, declared himself a kidnapped head of state Monday as he pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges—reviving long-standing debates over Washington’s use of criminal prosecutions to justify regime change. A defiant Nicolás Maduro declared himself “the president of my country” in a U.S. federal courtroom Monday, […]

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