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Venezuelan minister exposes plot to frame Iran in Caracas synagogue ‘attack’
Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello has laid bare a plot orchestrated by the country’s opposition leaders, in coordination with the son of Iran’s deposed monarch, to stage an attack on a synagogue in Caracas. In remarks delivered on...

Venezuela: Trapped in an authoritarian maze
First published in Spanish at Nueva Sociedad. Translation by Richard Fidler for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal. Following the July 2024 presidential elections, and the official refusal to release disaggregated results, Nicolás...

Venezuelan man accused of posing as teen in Perrysburg indicted on federal charges
PERRYSBURG, Ohio (WTVG) - A Venezuelan man who investigators said posed as a teenager while attending Perrysburg High School has been indicted. The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury indicted 24-year-old Anthony...

Venezuelan man accused of posing as teen in Perrysburg pleads not guilty
PERRYSBURG, Ohio (WTVG) - A Venezuelan man who investigators said posed as a teenager while attending Perrysburg High School entered a plea of not guilty on June 30. The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury indicted...

The Playbook and the Memoir of Venezuela’s Demise
“When did it all start?” That’s a question not only we as Venezuelans often ask to understand what truly brought us to being the largest displaced population in the world, or the depths of the economic collapse that still sparks analysis and...

Climate Facts: Global carbon emissions to peak by 2025, study finds
The complexities of climate change and its associated jargon can prove difficult to digest. TheCable’s quick climate facts will help demystify these concepts through easy-to-understand and straight-to-the-point explanations. Here are some to keep...

Communities and ecosystems in Venezuela learn to adapt to life after glaciers
In 2023, La Corona, Venezuela’s last standing glacier in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida National Park, was reclassified as an ice field, having shrunk to the size of barely two football fields. The country is now the first tropical nation to lose all...

Venezuela Assumes Presidency of OFID Ministerial Council: Opportunities and Challenges in a Key Geopolitical Context
Geopolitical Context On Thursday, June 19, 2025, Venezuela was appointed as the new president of the Ministerial Council of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) for the 2025-2026 period, marking a milestone in its participation...

July 4th weather forecast: NHC tracking area over Florida
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical disturbance over Florida. No tropical development is expected near Florida in the short term. Tropical Depression Two, turned Tropical Storm Barry, is expected to make landfall along the...

Is global warming a hoax to further the New World Order?
By Desmond McGrath March 21, 2015 Dear Sir; I have been an aficionado of your writings for longer than I remember and met you briefly in person on two occasions where you were speaking in the 80s and early 90s and on one occasion corresponded with...

Venezuela Condemns US Aggression on Iran
June 21, 2025 Hour: 11:22 pm Venezuela have condemned the US recent bombardments in Iranian nuclear facilities, describing it as an illegal, unjustifiable and extremely dangerous act of aggression that flagrantly violates the Charter of the United...

Drilling for water in Venezuela's parched oil town
In Venezuela's oil capital of Maracaibo, a drilling frenzy has led to dozens of new wells -- but the valuable liquid being pumped out is just water, not petroleum. In a symbol of the woes of Venezuela's crumbling economy, the once flourishing oil...
World AFP Drilling for water in Venezuela's parched oil town
In Venezuela's oil capital of Maracaibo, a drilling frenzy has led to dozens of new wells -- but the valuable liquid being pumped out is just water, not petroleum. In a symbol of the woes of Venezuela's crumbling economy, the once flourishing oil...

Neighbors come together to defend urban trees in Caracas, Venezuela
Aníbal Isturdes’ hand on the stump of a felled rubber tree. Photo by Estefanía Salazar, used with permission. This article is part of the “Environmental Defenders” series, co-published by Latin America Bureau and Global Voices. ¿Qué he de hacer...

Neighbours come together to defend urban trees in Caracas, Venezuela
The indiscriminate felling of three rubber trees in the capital of Venezuela reveals the challenges facing a city that must embrace its green areas to address the climate crisis. What must I do as a citizen to love and care for nature and the blue...

Venezuela Honorably Assumes Presidency of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) Ministerial Council 2025-2026
Venezuela leads OFID ministerial council, strengthening South-South cooperation and sustainable development.Photo: Delcy Rodríguez/Telegram June 19, 2025 Hour: 5:02 pm Venezuela was appointed to chair the Ministerial Council of the OPEC Fund for...

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
3-Carlos Composite: AFP/Getty Images / Guardian Design For more than three decades, Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre has warned that deforestation of the Amazon could push this globally important ecosystem past the point of no return....

Revitalizing popular counterpower in Venezuela: Tensions between the PSUV and popular organizations
Abstract This article asks if, and to what extent a movement organization or party has emerged with the capacity to challenge the leadership of Venezuela’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). The article contributes empirically (case study...

This Beach Vacation Is Equally Sustainable and Sandy. Here’s a Travel Guide to this Idyllic Island
Maybe you first heard of Aruba from the breezy, upbeat Beach Boys tune Kokomoko. Or perhaps the island’s warmth reached you through someone else’s sun-soaked travel stories. Or even someone's IG stories! However Aruba came onto your radar, one...

Brazil’s Most Sustainable Capital Puts Value on its Waste
Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Green Economy, Headlines, Integration and Development Brazilian-style, Latin America & the Caribbean, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals Sustainability Community orchard in Ribeirão, a...