By Wyatt Reed and Kit Klarenberg
Gen Z violent protest in Mexico City on November 15.
Violent protests that erupted across Mexico this month were backed by local oligarchs and an international right-wing network determined to topple the popular President Claudia Sheinbaum.
Violent demonstrations which erupted in over 50 cities across Mexico on November 15 were secretly financed and coordinated by an international right-wing network and amplified by bot networks, a new report by public fact-checking platform Infodemia has concluded. (more…)
By Juan Reardon and Nils McCune on November 20, 2025
“Formation must be linked to a strategic political project for the transformation of society. This very project is constantly under development and formation must be part of the process. For this reason, formation cannot be dogmatic nor spontaneous but instead should be prepared, planned and combined with the development of the strategic objectives of the organization.”
– La Via Campesina (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on November 20, 2025
Argentina has entered a new stage of struggle against the US backed Milei government. What began as a national strike by the State Workers’ Association (ATE)—with participation reportedly exceeding 90%—ended up becoming the first major display of street resistance against the government’s proposed labor reform and its economic and political alignment with the United States. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 20, 2025
Melania Trump, delivers a speech at the Mega Hangar at New River Marine Corps Air Station in North Carolina, on November 19, 2025. Foto: AFP
The Reagan administration updated the old Monroe Doctrine, referring to Latin America as “our backyard.” In the United States, the expression sounds almost endearing: the backyard is the place for barbecues and children’s games. South of the Rio Grande, however, “backyard” translates into corral: the place where chickens are raised, junk is accumulated, old washing machines are thrown away, and it ends up looking like a small domestic cemetery. (more…)
By Sergio Monin on November 19, 2025.
The Kremlin has condemned US threats against the Maduro government, but remains cautious and avoids further involvement in the crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Moscow on May 7, 2025. Credit: foto: Alexander Zemlianichenko
Russia has consistently condemned US actions in Venezuela amid continued threats from the Donald Trump administration, which has been mobilizing troops in the Caribbean region since August. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on November 18, 2025
‘For Cuba, we’ll create together’ – Havana, May 1, 2025. foto: Bill Hackwell
Every few years, The Economist resurrects a familiar script: Cuba is collapsing; Cuba is imploding; Cuba must “change drastically”—invariably in the direction of neoliberalism and U.S. tutelage. Its November 18, 2025 article, dripping with manufactured pity and well-rehearsed contempt, repeats this tired chorus. With moral indignation, it lists prices of eggs and rice, invokes the spectre of humanitarian crisis, and declares—again—that Cuba is heading toward disaster. (more…)
By Gustav Cederlöf and Sophie Blackburn on November 15, 2025
Cubans ride through a flooded road near Santiago de Cuba. AP foto: Ramón Espinosa
Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated – one in every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and deaths. (more…)
November 18, 2025
President Nicolas Maduro and Ignacio Ramonet Nov. 2025.
Spanish writer Ignacio Ramonet holds an exclusive conversation with the Bolivarian leader.
I am in Venezuela to present, at the Caracas Book Fair, my new work: “The Infinite Conversation” (Acirema Publishing), a compilation of interviews with 10 geniuses. I arrive here at a particular moment because this country could be attacked at any time. (more…)