By Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on October 17, 2025, from Havana
Under the statue of Simón Bolívar that stands on Avenida de los Presidentes in Havana, a monument similar to the one in the Central Plaza of the city of Caracas, an entire people was gathered to support the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 16, 2025
Venezuelans, Dr. José Gregorio Hernández and Mother Carmen Elena Rendiles will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV on October 19.
In three days Venezuela will experience a significant moment in its religious and cultural history: the canonization of its first two saints, Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez and Mother Carmen Elena Rendiles. The solemn ceremony will take place at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, presided over by Pope Leo XIV, marking a recognition in the spiritual life of the nation by elevating these two revered Venezuelans to the universal altar of the Catholic Church, all the while the Venezuelan people are being menaced by an armada of US warships off their shores and B-52 bombers flying overhead. (more…)
By Becca Renk on October 16, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Portland, Oregon was my sanctuary as a teenager. I was a weird kid, a label I mostly embraced. But being different in my hometown rural north Idaho was exhausting. When I needed to recharge myself, I would drive the nine hours to Portland to bask in the city that accepted me just as I was. Maybe that is the Trump administration’s problem with Portland today: it is literally a sanctuary city. (more…)
By Manolo De Los Santos October 15, 2025
A US Army soldier watching a burning oil well at Rumaila oil field in Iraq in April 2003. Photo: US Navy
The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the “war on drugs,” the United States is actively executing a blueprint for military intervention in Venezuela, employing lethal force and projecting power in a manner that legal institutions and regional leaders have condemned as a profound threat to international order. This aggression is not a law enforcement operation; it is the negation of law, a neocolonial revival of the Monroe Doctrine, designed to shatter the sovereignty of Venezuela, seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves, and install a compliant regime. (more…)
October 14, 2025
Venezuela’s Embassy in Oslo after it was closed on Oct. 13. Fredrik Varfjel/AFP
On Monday, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has begun the first phase of a comprehensive restructuring of its foreign service, ordering the closure of its embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia.“As part of the strategic reallocation of resources, the closure of the embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia has been ordered,” the ministry said in a statement. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and John Perry on October 14, 2025
image: Depositphotos
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” (more…)
By David Bacon on October 1, 2025
Tina Modotti [publicity still as “Rosa Carilla” in “Riding with Death”, 1921, photographer unknown]
By Emir Olivares Alonso on October 14, 2025 from Mexico City
delegates from 35 countries demand an end to the blockade of Cuba.
Dozens of delegates from 35 countries demanded that the United States government and Congress end the “genocidal” economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba. (more…)