Author: Roger D. Harris

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Ballots and bias: How the press framed Venezuela’s regional and legislative elections

June 3, 2025 Roger D. Harris
The pro-government alliance achieved a sweeping victory in Venezuela’s May 25 elections, while a fractured opposition suffered losses. Western media distorted the results – spinning low turnout claims, ignoring the role of illegal US sanctions, […]
Cuba

Cuba under intensified U.S. sanctions confronts its greatest challenge: The continuity of Obama-Trump-Biden policy

October 21, 2024 Roger D. Harris
“The majority of Cubans support Castro … every possible means should be undertaken promptly to weaken the economic life of Cuba…to decrease monetary and real wages, to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government.” […]
Venezuela

How Venezuela is overcoming the U.S. blockade

June 28, 2024 Roger D. Harris
The future of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, a target of US imperial power since its inception in 1998, may be decided on July 28, the date of their presidential election. Incumbent President Nicolás Maduro and seven […]
Venezuela

How the campaign to free Venezuelan political prisoner Alex Saab succeeded

December 23, 2023 Roger D. Harris
Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.” The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international […]