Webinar – Partners in Crime: the US-Canada Hybrid War Against Venezuela

Date: Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021

Time: 12:00 Noon CDT

Place: Online. Register at Eventbrite.

Admission: Free

The United States and its allies, Canada and the EU, have carried out a 20 year assault on the legitimate government of Venezuela. Because China and Russia have promised to defend Venezuela from a US military invasion, the US has conducted a hybrid war against the country. The Obama decree that designated Venezuela an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the security of the USA” allowed Obama, followed by Trump and then Biden to by-pass regulations of war and any Congress oversight to try to overthrow the legitimate government of Nicolas Maduro with a series of economic measures and covert operations. In this webinar, Mariá Páez Victor details this hybrid war and the implications it has had for Venezuela, for the US and its allies and for the region.

Mariá Páez Victor, PhD is a sociologist, born in Venezuela, now retired from university teaching who is dedicated to writing. As well,  she is a frequent commentator on issues related to Latin American history and politics and she has participated in numerous events on TV, radio and in public meetings. In addition she  has her own weekly radio program about Venezuela in the Spanish language community radio of Toronto.

Mariá’s Recommended reading:

• Orinoco Tribune
• Book by Justin Podur and Joe Emersberger: “Extraordinary Threat , the US Empire, the Media and 20 Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela” Published by Monthly Review
• Webinar by Yves Engler, “Canada in Venezuela“