By Pablo Meriguet on December 18, 2025
LIBRE campaign rally in November ahead of the elections. Photo: LIBRE
Two weeks after elections in Honduras, no winner has yet been declared yet. As the irregularities grow, both the Liberal Party and LIBRE have denounced electoral fraud is being committed in favor of the far-right candidate. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on December 18, 2025
In 1829, Simón Bolívar issued a warning that has echoed across two centuries of struggle: “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” Bolívar was not indulging in rhetorical excess. He was diagnosing an emerging imperial logic—one that cloaked domination in the language of freedom, conquest in the rhetoric of democracy, and plunder in the vocabulary of order. Nearly two hundred years later, as U.S. warships prowl the Caribbean, sanctions tighten into sieges, and unilateral force replaces international law, Bolívar’s words read less like prophecy than political realism. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 18, 2025
Republican Congressman Carlos Gimenez in a file photo.
The “three crazy Cubans” are on a rampage. For years, Mario Diaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, and Carlos Gimenez have presented themselves in the U.S. Congress as a cohesive Cuban-American bloc: hardline against governments they call “totalitarian,” applauding sanctions and publicly defending draconian measures that would be difficult to accept in a truly democratic context. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on December 16, 2025
Kast and Pinochet
Chile woke up this December to a major political fact: José Antonio Kast—son of a Nazi officer and a defender of Pinochet—won the presidential runoff with 58.16% of the vote against Jeannette Jara’s 41.84%. His victory became the emblem of a conservative return that is not only Chilean, but part of a broader regional cycle of “punishment voting” and demands for “order.” (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on December 16, 2024
illustration by Ylli Haruni
Pirates of centuries past were newborn babies compared to the convicted president and megalomaniac, Donald Trump, who threatens wars, imposes “sanctions,” accuses sovereign and democratic countries of drug trafficking without evidence, and even hijacks oil tankers in his quest to seize and control all of Latin America and the Caribbean. (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on December 15, 2025
From the heart of the US colony, a geographer and activist explains that Washington’s “new” security strategy looks a great deal like the old one.
As the United States reasserts its hemispheric priorities in its recent National Security Strategy document, Latin America and the Caribbean are once again cast as a zone of interest, with Venezuela squarely in Washington’s sights. Puerto Rico—still a US colony more than a century after the 1898 invasion—plays a central role in this imperial architecture, serving as both a military platform and a living example of colonial rule in the region. (more…)
By Manolo de los Santos on December 12, 2025
Defending Venezuela’s peace and sovereignty transcends a single nation. foto: Cubadebate
The growing threats against Venezuela are not an isolated policy, but a calculated move within a strategic campaign to dominate what US power has long called its “backyard.” This is the Monroe Doctrine reborn in the 21st century—imposed not only by decree, but through criminal sanctions that strangle economies, blockades that target medicine and food, media propaganda, and the mobilization of the largest naval fleet in decades. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on December 13, 2025
Marines carrying out exercises on USS Iwo Jima in the Caribbean Sea. Photo: SOUTHCOM
Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the “natural” zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping. (more…)