Federico Fuentes, a long-time Venezuela solidarity activist, was quoted at length in the two-part news analysis “Washington’s Conquest in Venezuela” that World-Outlook published last month. In the full interview published here, Ashley Smith of the online journal Tempest talks with him about the U.S. attack, Maduro’s regime, and the urgency of building resistance to Trump’s “vicious new imperialism.”
An Answer to Party for Socialism and Liberation Claim that ‘Bolivarian Revolution Still Stands.’ This is the second of two parts. On January 3, 2026, U.S. forces bombed Venezuela and abducted the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. Among those in the United States who oppose Washington’s assault on Caracas and its saber rattling in the Americas, there are counterposed assessments on what has unfolded in Venezuela and on the character of the country’s current government. Manolo De Los Santos, executive director of the People’s Forum in New York City and a researcher in Tricontinental, outlined his perspective in the January 4 article Venezuela’s Revolution still stands: debunking Trump’s psyop. It was first published by the People’s Dispatch and immediately reprinted by Liberation, the newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. His claims fly in the face of reality as shown by this article.
An Answer to Party for Socialism and Liberation Claim that ‘Bolivarian Revolution Still Stands’. On January 3, 2026, U.S. forces bombed Venezuela and abducted the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. Among those in the United States who oppose Washington’s assault on Caracas and its saber rattling in the Americas, there are counterposed assessments on what has unfolded in Venezuela and on the character of the country’s current government. Manolo De Los Santos, executive director of the People’s Forum in New York City and a researcher in Tricontinental, outlined his perspective in the January 4 article Venezuela’s Revolution still stands: debunking Trump’s psyop. It was first published by the People’s Dispatch and immediately reprinted by Liberation, the newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. His claims fly in the face of reality as shown by this article.
On January 16, 2026, hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched and rallied in Havana to pay homage to their countrymen killed during the U.S. assault on Venezuela two weeks earlier. Thirty-two Cuban soldiers died while putting up fierce resistance to U.S. forces that stormed the presidential residence in Caracas and ultimately kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Cuba’s president Miguel Díaz-Canel delivered the speech published here to honor the 32 fallen combatants and respond to Washington’s escalating threats against his nation.
On January 3, 2026, the U.S. military invaded Venezuela and abducted its president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Among the approximately 100 civilians and security personnel killed in the assault were 32 Cuban nationals. Since then, there has been rampant speculation about how the U.S. forces were able to breach Maduro’s security, what the Cuban nationals were doing in Venezuela, and the nature of the relationship between Cuba and Venezuela. This article clarifies Cuba’s role in Venezuela and answers many of the claims peddled as part of Washington’s propaganda.