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Trump Threatens 25% Tariff on Countries Buying Venezuelan Oil as US Continues Migrant Crackdown

By José Luis Granados Ceja on March 24, 2025

Trump keeps signing away threatening executive orders.

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States will impose a 25 percent tariff on all trade with countries purchasing oil or gas from Venezuela. Caracas responded to the measure, calling it “arbitrary, illegal and desperate” and accusing Washington of violating international trade agreements. (more…)

El Tren de Aragua: the Defunct Venezuelan Band turned International Narrative Weapon

March 25, 2025

Until the designation as a “transnational criminal organization” by the US in 2024, the course of the now-disbanded group was narrated by a network of US think tanks, media and funds that constructed a discourse against the Bolivarian Revolution. This construction currently serves to justify sanctions, carry out mass deportations and feed the false idea of a failed state in Venezuela. (more…)

The Argentine Rite of March 24: a Celebration of Remembrance

By Luis Bruschtein on March 25, 2025 from Buenos Aires

The faces of the disappeared will always be present despite the denialism of Milei photo: AFP

It is difficult to understand how this ritual of hope could have emerged from horror. The state terrorism that caused the disappearance of 30,000 Argentinians gave rise to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. And the hundreds of thousands who march every 24th of March continue on their path, contributing to this democracy the richest facet of their people: love of country, solidarity and the fight against injustice. (more…)

The Cuban Route to the American South and its Expression in Culture from History

By Dr. José Ramón Cabañas on on March 25, 2025

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Cultural Diplomacy, organized by the Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales “Raúl Roa García”, ISRI, Havana, March 25-27, 2025. (more…)

Venezuela Accuses the US and El Salvador of Improperly Expelling Migrants

March 23, 2025

Venezuelan migrants at a Salvadoran maximum security prison. March 2025. X/ @El_Cooperante

On Friday, during the meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Venezuela strongly reproached the United States for deporting Venezuelan immigrants without criminal records to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. (more…)

Digital Dirty War: Manipulation and Anonymity

La Jornada Editorial on March 21, 2025

Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico. Photo: EFE.

In just four days, unknown individuals or entities spent 20 million pesos on social network X to launch a smear campaign against President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and her predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador. (more…)

Argentina: Un árbol crece en Oakland en recuerdo de las víctimas del golpe militar respaldado por Estados Unidos

Por Bill Hackwell el 23 de marzo de 2025

24 de marzo 2021, 45 años después del golpe de Estado genocida, plantamos Memoria para los 30 000

Mañana se cumple el 49.º aniversario de la cruel y criminal toma militar de Argentina que provocó la detención y desaparición de 30 000 personas, miles de presos políticos y cientos de miles de exiliados. (more…)

Argentina: A Tree Grows in Oakland in Remembrance of the Victims of the US Backed Military Coup

By Bill Hackwell on March 23, 2025

March 24, 2021, 45 years after the genocidal coup, we plant Memory for the 30,000

Tomorrow marks the 49th anniversary of the cruel and criminal military takeover of Argentina that resulted in 30,000 people being detained and disappeared, thousands of political prisoners and hundreds of thousands of exiles. (more…)

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