April 2022 – Orinoco Tribune – News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

Mass grave site uncovered by Gondar University research team. Photo: Twitter @Hermela22.

Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia, Part III: Crimes of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front

April 30, 2022 Ann Garrison Africa, Ethiopia, mass graves, Tigray, Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Underground prisons, US Imperialism

By Ann Garrison – Apr 27, 2022 The discovery of mass graves and underground prisons in Ethiopia has exposed the

Featured image: Photo composition by MintPresss News.

Europe International Opinion

An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm

April 30, 2022 Alan MacLeod censorship, Deplatforming, Facebook, google, Russia, twitter, Ukraine

By Alan Macleod – Apr 25, 2022 “Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears

President Bukele taking a selfie before his speech at the UN General Assembly in 2019. Photo: Presidential Press (El Salvador).

Central America and the Caribbean (+Mexico) Latin America and ALBA-TCP News OT Originals

El Salvador: Social Movements Denounce Bukele’s Criminalization of May Day Marches

April 30, 2022May 1, 2022 orinocotribune BRP, criminal gangs, criminalization, El Salvador, Emergency Decree, Ingrid Escobar, José Santos Melera, labor rights, march, May Day, Nayib Bukele, Rolando Castro, Sonia Urrutia

April 30, 2022 (OrinocoTribune.com)—Various social movements and trade unions of El Salvador denounced attempts by the government of President Nayib

Featured image: The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold, forward-deployed to the US 7th Fleet in the Indo-Pacific region, transits the Philippine Sea, on June 14, 2018. Photo: Reuters.

International News

US Poised to Continue Its Failed Policies Against China, Says Analyst Daniel Patrick Welch

April 30, 2022 scorinoco Asia-Pacific, China, Pivot to Asia, US hegemony, US Imperialism

The United States is poised to continue exactly the same failed policies against China that have brought it to a

Featured image: The flags of Pakistan and Cuba together, representing the bilateral relations of the two countries. File photo.

Asia International Opinion

Was the Pakistani-Cuban Diplomatic Scandal Sparked by a Faux Pas or a Freudian Slip?

April 30, 2022 Andrew Korybko Ahsan Iqbal, coup in Pakistan, Cuba, de facto government, Geopolitics, Imran Khan, junior partner, Pakistan, Shireen Mazari, US Imperialism

By Andrew Korybko – Apr 25, 2022 Pakistani Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal unwittingly sparked a diplomatic scandal

Featured image: Venezuelan migrants. Photo: AP/Martín Mejía.

News Politics

Colombia is the Country with Most Complaints of Attacks on Venezuelan Migrants, Says Deputy Julio Chávez

April 30, 2022 orinocotribune Colombia, Julio Chavez, Venezuela, Venezuelan Migration, violence against migrants, xenophobia

In an interview with Sputnik, National Assembly Deputy Julio Chávez stated that Colombia is the country that has registered the

Featured image: President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro (left), and US President Joe Biden (right). Photo: RedRadioVE.

News Politics

Venezuela and US Delegations May Meet in Trinidad and Tobago

April 30, 2022 orinocotribune chevron, energy crisis, Joe Biden, National Dialogue, Nicolas Maduro, US blockade against Venezuela, Venezuelan oppositions

Representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and US President Joe Biden may meet once more in Trinidad and Tobago, to

Featured image: President Nicolás Maduro during the ceremony at the National Pantheon in honor of independence hero Manuel Piar. Photo: Presidential Press.

Health-Education-Sport-Culture-Technology News

Independence Hero Manuel Piar’s Remains Laid to Rest at National Pantheon of Venezuela

April 30, 2022 orinocotribune class struggle, History, Independence of Venezuela, Manuel Piar, National Pantheon, Nicolas Maduro, Simon Bolivar, Venezuela

On Friday, April 29, the symbolic remains of Manuel Piar (1774-1817), a hero of Venezuelan independence struggle, were laid to

Oil drilling machinery. Photo: Luis Britto García.

Economy Opinion

Venezuela: Facing a World Without Oil

April 30, 2022 Luis Britto Garcia Energy Resource, multipolarity, Oil, oil reserves, PDVSA, US blockade against Venezuela, Venezuela

By Luis Britto García – Apr 23, 2022 How long will the world’s proven oil reserves last? In 2016, it

Featured image: The Secretariat of the Caribbean Community, in Georgetown, Guyana. File photo.

Latin America and ALBA-TCP News

Caribbean Countries Protest Sectarianism at Summit of the Americas

April 30, 2022 José Manuel Blanco Diaz Cuba, Nicaragua, oas, Ronald Sanders, Summit of the Americas, US hegemony, Venezuela

At least 14 Caribbean countries will be absent from the upcoming Summit of the Americas as a protest measure against

Featured image: Foreign Affairs Minister of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, and his Venezuelan counterpart, Félix Plasencia, pay homage to the Liberator Simón Bolívar at the National Pantheon in Caracas. Photo: Twitter/@plasenciafelixr

International News

Venezuela and Turkey Reaffirm Commitment to Integration of Peoples

April 30, 2022 orinocotribune CIIP, Felix Plasencia, Joint Commission for Strategic Cooperation 3, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Şevki Mütevellioğlu, Tareck El Aissami, Turkey, Venezuela

On Friday, April 29, delegations from Venezuela and Turkey paid homage to the Liberator Simón Bolívar at the National Pantheon,

Europe International News

Here’s What I Found at the Reported ‘Mass Grave’ Near Mariupol

April 29, 2022May 2, 2022 Editor2 Mariupol, mass graves, Ukraine-Russia Conflict, Vadym Boichenko, western media

A first-hand look at the location where Kiev claims trenches hold thousands of bodies According to recent Western media, Russian

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting in Aleppo on 6 February 2011. (Photo credit: SANA)

Asia International Opinion

Why is Turkey Pretending Its Neighbours Approve of Its Occupation of Their Territory?

April 29, 2022 Editor2 Bashar Al-Assad, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Syria, terrorism, Turkey

By Abdel Bari Atwan – Apr 24, 2022 The Syrian foreign ministry broke its silence at the weekend and released

Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves, left, and Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro in talk in Caracas Monday night, April 26, 2022. Photo: Nicolas Maduro/Twitter.

Latin America and ALBA-TCP News

Venezuela Cancels SVG’s PetroCaribe Debt in Full

April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 Editor2 conviasa, Petrocaribe, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela

Venezuela is forgiving Saint Vincent and the Grenadines remaining PetroCaribe debt in full. The announcement was made on Tuesday by

Venezuelan and Brazilian flags at a border point between Venezuela and Brazil in La Linea, near Santa Elena de Uairen, Bolivar state. Photo: AP/Eraldo Peres.

Latin America and ALBA-TCP News South America

Tensions Arise as Brazil Rehearses Rapprochement with Venezuela

April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 orinocotribune bolsonaro, Brazil, Carlos Franca, Diplomatic Relations, Lula, presidential Race, Venezuela

Relations between the governments of Brazil and Venezuela are practically null. President Jair Bolsonaro, in fact, repeatedly uses the neighboring

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