The integrated guide to imperialism in Venezuela
 

A note of urgency to understand the ongoing imperial siege

Alejandro Pedregal

The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, by US imperialism marks a new and extremely serious escalation in the sustained aggression against Venezuela's sovereignty. Far from being an isolated or exceptional event, this episode is part of a prolonged offensive that combines economic and financial warfare, political delegitimisation, military coercion and the production of media consensus and cultural hegemony. In the face of information confusion, propaganda, and the proliferationof speculative narratives, this article proposesa framework for analysing the structural logic of contemporary imperialism and placing this attack within the siege Venezuela has endured for decades.

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