August 19, 2025
The US deployment includes 4,000 additional Marines and sailors in the waters surrounding Latin America and the Caribbean. photo: USN
Under the pretext of combating drug trafficking, the US has deployed more than 4,500 military personnel in waters near Latin America and the Caribbean, even though 90 percent of the drugs that leave South America for the US travel via the Pacific Ocean. (more…)
By Jorge Elbaum on August 19, 2025 from Buenos Aires
Vladimir Putin, photo: AFP
The Alaska summit turned into a political victory for Vladimir Putin. For three years, they insisted on isolating him—they called him a pariah—and tried to pressure him into accepting a truce, at a time when his troops are steadily advancing toward Kiev. (more…)
By David Bacon on August 15 2025
Dancers from Las Azucenas de Maria perform Jarabes from Oaxaca’s central valleys on the stage in the plaza. photos: David Bacon
Increasingly targeted in immigration raids, Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.
In many agricultural fields of the West Coast of the United States, you’re more likely to hear Mixtec or Triqui languages spoken than Spanish. Both are common among the Indigenous people of southern Mexico, some of whom now pick grapes for Napa and Sonoma County’s prestige wineries, or apples in century-old orchards. Without their labor, rural economies in California would collapse. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on August 18, 2025
One of Donald Trump’s most immediate priorities during his first six months as president of the United States has been to carry out a kind of ethnic cleansing within the country, or rather social alienation or marginalization, which began markedly with measures taken against immigrants (legal or otherwise) and has continued with other sectors. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on August 18, 2025
“If they touch Maduro, they touch all of us.”
The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article, a mirror is held up to Uncle Sam to see how well “America the beautiful” holds up to the same charges, while also exposing the role of sanctions, compliant NGOs, and military threats in Washington’s hybrid war on Venezuela. (more…)
By Frank Martinez Rivero on August 17, 2025
image: AI
Los Angeles, the mecca of film and the entertainment industry, is preparing to write a new chapter in its Olympic history by becoming, in 2028, the third city in the world—after London and Paris—to host the Summer Games for the third time. (more…)
By Michelle Ellner on August 17, 2025
Washington is ramping up militarization at home and abroad. AP Photo: J. Scott Applewhite
President Donald Trump has quietly authorized the Pentagon to carry out military operations against what his administration calls “narco-terrorist” networks in Latin America. On paper, it’s a counter-narcotics policy. In practice, it serves as a green light for open-ended U.S. military action abroad, bypassing congressional approval, sidestepping international law, and stretching the definition of “national security” until it becomes a catch-all justification for the use of force. (more…)
August 17, 2025
Lula da Silva
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned the United States blockade against Cuba, which has now lasted more than six decades, and defended the Más Médicos program, implemented in Brazil in 2013 in cooperation with the island. (more…)