The lack of heavy machinery in Venezuela following the devastating earthquakes which struck at the weekend has condemned thousands of people to a slow, suffocating death.
Thank you, Nate Bear. Thank you for your j'accuse. It's the truth and nothing but the truth - as they all know (or should know) journalists included. I'm waiting for Nuremberg trials 2.0.
"Yet in all the legacy media articles I’ve read, not one has made this link clear and explicit. Journalists appear to have gone to great lengths to avoid this context and laid all the blame on Venezuelan authorities for the absence of life-saving machinery."
You are right and that's why nobody with half a brain or a shred of solidarity with global humanity looks to the legacy media to explain anything anymore. Personally, I read it in the same sense that you might study a lunatic who has sworn to murder you and your whole family.
The Americans do everything in their power to harm Venezuela and Venezuelans out of pure spite, and then jeer that Chavismo every always only fails. The Americans do much the same to Cuba.
One can only hope that the reality of the USA being a hellhole for most residing there (that's here for me) is becoming crystal clear to all of Earth's inhabitants.
The chief export of the USA is misery dispensed by dollar power. The hellish conditions of those at the bottom of the pile in sanctioned countries leads to a disastrous mistake of seeking refuge in the USA.
May the fate of 120 recent Venezuelan immigrants expelled back to their former home and then held in a complex that collapsed in the earthquake get copious coverage. Only 12 survived.
Hope may be slowly on the way. The more military material wasted in vain on conquering Iran means less to deploy for the gunboat diplomacy that helps enforce those sanctions.
Of course, this depends on US citizens insisting that our corrupt foreign and domestic policy change. We need to step up to stop the injustice dealt us and much of the globe.
Via WSWS.org. ‘The dead of La Guaira and Caracas are also the victims of the historic bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism and its “Bolivarian” variant. The Chavista governments of Hugo Chávez, Nicolas Maduro and now Rodríguez held power for nearly three decades, presiding over one of the greatest surges in oil revenue in history.
They proclaimed a “Bolivarian Revolution” and “Socialism of the 21st Century.” Yet the concrete-and-adobe apartment blocks that pancaked on Wednesday night—many of them rebuilt after the 1999 Vargas catastrophe without seismic engineering—stand as the monument to what that “socialism” actually delivered. A government genuinely placing human life first would have used those years of petroleum wealth to systematically retrofit and rebuild the country’s housing stock to modern seismic codes, fortify its hospital system, and develop emergency preparedness systems capable of responding to a catastrophe that scientists had explicitly predicted.
The social conditions that turned a seismic event into a mass grave were prepared by a century of imperialist plunder, decades of sanctions, and a corrupt bourgeois nationalism that subordinated the working class to the needs of Wall Street. The dead of Venezuela are the victims of a class crime.'
I think this is an important point: the Venezuelan regime, although under tremendous attack by US Imperialism, was never Socialist in any sense and because of that were defeated by Imperialism without a shot fired.
Thank you. There’s a follow up article here relating to the deaths of people who had only just arrived back in Venezuela from the US after being deported. 'To understand who the people on flight 164 were, one must understand what it took for them to reach the United States in the first place. Of the more than 8 million Venezuelans who fled the country’s economic collapse between 2014 and the present—driven by sanctions, the implosion of oil revenues and the failures of Chavismo—only a fraction ever reached US territory.’ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/30/skhq-j30.html
Yes. WSWS is an excellent resource. Wage slaves should read it critically. That said, I have strong disagreements with their line on Imperialist victim Russia especially when you compare it to their line on Iran. In addition, they historically critique the two Imperialist genocidal parties in a way that seems to encourage support for the Imperialist genocidal Democratic Party. Their critique of bourgeois divide and rule idpol has been extremely weak imo as well. Generally, while their party has generally maintained a Marxist orientation since it's split with the WRP, they have failed to connect with the working masses and without that connection the aging leadership has become increasingly subjective and frankly incorrect on many critical issues since at least the first Trump administration.
Good on you but the bloody masses & sheeple won't listen. When I made a couple of comments on some videos pointing out the frozen/stolen Billions & decades of sanctions I was attacked with people in the West and even Venezuela blaming "the Chavista Regime", "a dictator", etc. Just sad and depressing or as Andrei Martyonov says "you can fix a moron because he's a moron".
Thank you, Nate Bear. Thank you for your j'accuse. It's the truth and nothing but the truth - as they all know (or should know) journalists included. I'm waiting for Nuremberg trials 2.0.
"Yet in all the legacy media articles I’ve read, not one has made this link clear and explicit. Journalists appear to have gone to great lengths to avoid this context and laid all the blame on Venezuelan authorities for the absence of life-saving machinery."
You are right and that's why nobody with half a brain or a shred of solidarity with global humanity looks to the legacy media to explain anything anymore. Personally, I read it in the same sense that you might study a lunatic who has sworn to murder you and your whole family.
The word "sanctions" sanitizes the result of their imposition. They are mechanisms of siege equivalent to medieval warfare.
The Americans do everything in their power to harm Venezuela and Venezuelans out of pure spite, and then jeer that Chavismo every always only fails. The Americans do much the same to Cuba.
Thing is - it works.
One can only hope that the reality of the USA being a hellhole for most residing there (that's here for me) is becoming crystal clear to all of Earth's inhabitants.
The chief export of the USA is misery dispensed by dollar power. The hellish conditions of those at the bottom of the pile in sanctioned countries leads to a disastrous mistake of seeking refuge in the USA.
May the fate of 120 recent Venezuelan immigrants expelled back to their former home and then held in a complex that collapsed in the earthquake get copious coverage. Only 12 survived.
Hope may be slowly on the way. The more military material wasted in vain on conquering Iran means less to deploy for the gunboat diplomacy that helps enforce those sanctions.
Of course, this depends on US citizens insisting that our corrupt foreign and domestic policy change. We need to step up to stop the injustice dealt us and much of the globe.
Via WSWS.org. ‘The dead of La Guaira and Caracas are also the victims of the historic bankruptcy of bourgeois nationalism and its “Bolivarian” variant. The Chavista governments of Hugo Chávez, Nicolas Maduro and now Rodríguez held power for nearly three decades, presiding over one of the greatest surges in oil revenue in history.
They proclaimed a “Bolivarian Revolution” and “Socialism of the 21st Century.” Yet the concrete-and-adobe apartment blocks that pancaked on Wednesday night—many of them rebuilt after the 1999 Vargas catastrophe without seismic engineering—stand as the monument to what that “socialism” actually delivered. A government genuinely placing human life first would have used those years of petroleum wealth to systematically retrofit and rebuild the country’s housing stock to modern seismic codes, fortify its hospital system, and develop emergency preparedness systems capable of responding to a catastrophe that scientists had explicitly predicted.
The social conditions that turned a seismic event into a mass grave were prepared by a century of imperialist plunder, decades of sanctions, and a corrupt bourgeois nationalism that subordinated the working class to the needs of Wall Street. The dead of Venezuela are the victims of a class crime.'
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/29/mswg-j29.html?pk_campaign=wsws-newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws-daily-newsletter
I think this is an important point: the Venezuelan regime, although under tremendous attack by US Imperialism, was never Socialist in any sense and because of that were defeated by Imperialism without a shot fired.
Thank you. There’s a follow up article here relating to the deaths of people who had only just arrived back in Venezuela from the US after being deported. 'To understand who the people on flight 164 were, one must understand what it took for them to reach the United States in the first place. Of the more than 8 million Venezuelans who fled the country’s economic collapse between 2014 and the present—driven by sanctions, the implosion of oil revenues and the failures of Chavismo—only a fraction ever reached US territory.’ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/06/30/skhq-j30.html
Yes. WSWS is an excellent resource. Wage slaves should read it critically. That said, I have strong disagreements with their line on Imperialist victim Russia especially when you compare it to their line on Iran. In addition, they historically critique the two Imperialist genocidal parties in a way that seems to encourage support for the Imperialist genocidal Democratic Party. Their critique of bourgeois divide and rule idpol has been extremely weak imo as well. Generally, while their party has generally maintained a Marxist orientation since it's split with the WRP, they have failed to connect with the working masses and without that connection the aging leadership has become increasingly subjective and frankly incorrect on many critical issues since at least the first Trump administration.
Sanctions are, in themselves, suffocating. They are the harbinger of declared wars. The empire may be in its death throes, but it will die fighting.
Oh, same people think Ukraine is winning.
A keeper btw.
Good on you but the bloody masses & sheeple won't listen. When I made a couple of comments on some videos pointing out the frozen/stolen Billions & decades of sanctions I was attacked with people in the West and even Venezuela blaming "the Chavista Regime", "a dictator", etc. Just sad and depressing or as Andrei Martyonov says "you can fix a moron because he's a moron".