By Raúl Antonio Capote on December 24, 2025
Mass mobilization for immigrant rights in Washington DC. May 2010, foto: Bill Hackwell.
More than 622,000 undocumented immigrants have been deported since Donald Trump returned to the White House
Since taking office in 2024, the current administration has implemented a series of policies that restrict and persecute immigration. More than 622,000 undocumented immigrants have been swept up and deported from the US since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on December 22, 2025
Navy patrol boat from the boardwalk of Lake Maracaibo in Maracaibo Venezuela. Photo: EFE/ Henry Chirinos
On Tuesday, December 16, 2025, US President Donald Trump ordered a total blockade of “sanctioned” oil tankers bound for Venezuela. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez. On December 23, 2025
image: Al Mayadeen
When the now much-quoted James Monroe uttered that famous phrase “America for Americans” in 1823, he could not have imagined that this sincere statement would run through the entire subsequent history of US foreign policy, much less that 200 years later one of his compatriots—as arrogant and ambitious as he was—would raise the stakes. (more…)
By William Castillo Bolé on December 21, 2025
The sin we have committed in Venezuela is to dare, for the first time in a hundred years, to confront the gross privileges of a senseless and insensitive oligarchy… Hugo Chávez, January 2003 (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 20, 2025
In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more recent “kinetic strikes.” Yet the officially stated justification for the US empire’s escalating offensive remains elusive. (more…)
Miguel Diaz Canel
December 19, 2025 from Havana
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, closed the Sixth Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) of its Tenth Legislature, held at the Convention Palace in Havana.
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By Stephen Sefton on December 14, 2025
The argument that the criminal US government is now focusing its attention on Latin America and the Caribbean after having forgotten about it for many years does not correspond to the reality. In fact, this is a natural escalation of already long-standing policies of aggression. The government of President Trump is desperately besieging Venezuela now because the constant regional US offensive since the start of the new century has not achieved its objectives. It has not been able to overthrow revolutionary governments in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela or prevent progressive governments in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, nor has it been able to curb China’s growing economic influence in the region. As in Europe, the US government wants to subject the entire region to its unquestionable domination through the collaboration of local oligarchies, as always, (more…)
By Chris Gilbert on December 19, 2025
Pastors for Peace humanitarian aid being delivered to the Martin Luther King Center. foto: Bill Hackwell
Now I know that there are many more things in heaven and earth than I’ve dreamt of. I never expected to find a Baptist-inspired project that enthusiastically defends gender and sexual diversity, socialism, and the Cuban Revolution. Yet that was precisely what I found at the Martin Luther King Center in Cuba when I visited in late November 2025 and was received in its offices by key members of its team, including Marilín Peña, Joel Suárez—son of the Center’s founder—and Sayonara Tamayo. (more…)