By Luis Britto Garcia on January 22, 2026
Upon becoming President in 1999 Hugo Chavez started a country wide literacy campaign and printed the Venezuelan Constitution in this small blue book for every person in the country.
Traitors, agents of foreign powers, and hit men with superior electronics and sophisticated weapons interfere with communications, murder dozens of our compatriots, kidnap the elected president, defame him, and prepare for the transition by dividing up the country behind closed doors. The spoils are not bad at all: the largest fossil fuel reserves on the planet, stolen without asking the opinion of their owner, the sovereign [Venezuelan] people. (more…)
By Sam Carliner on January 21, 2026
Argentine President Javier Milei closed out 2025 by quietly issuing a decree that centralizes the country’s vast intelligence apparatus and gives its intelligence agencies authority to apprehend individuals without prior judicial order.
Decree 941—issued on December 31, during legislative recess—reorganizes all intelligence agencies, including military intelligence, under the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE), which will report directly to the General Secretariat of the Presidency. The current General Secretariat of the Presidency is the president’s sister, Karina Milei. (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on January 21, 2026
Jan. 16, Nicaraguan co-president Daniel Ortega denounces the “terrorist behavior” of the US in appropriating the resources of others, such as Venezuela’s oil.
Since the US invasion of Venezuela on January 3rd and the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro, Nicaragua’s opposition figures – who enthusiastically identified with their confederates in Venezuela – have hoped that regime-change efforts in Caracas would encourage Washington to destroy Nicaragua’s Sandinista government. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 20, 2026
MST conference in Salvador Bahia
Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) is celebrating more than four decades of struggle for Popular Agrarian Reform, consolidating itself as one of the largest and most influential social movements in the world. With nearly two million members and a trajectory marked by resistance, the MST reaches its 42nd anniversary reaffirming its historic project of social justice, popular sovereignty, and structural transformation of the Brazilian countryside. (more…)
By Nuvpreet Kalra on January 20, 2026
Trump grins, like a kid with his new toy, with the Nobel Peace Prize given to him by Maria Corina Machado, 2025 winner , 16 Jan 2026.
Maria Corina Machado said it was a “historic day for us Venezuelans” as she handed President Trump her Nobel Peace Prize. For the pro-Israel, far-right opposition figure in Venezuela, being welcomed to the White House may have been an historic day. But for those of us interested in peace and justice, the only history the United States is making by keeping the sitting President of Venezuela locked up in New York is of colonialist bullying and imperialist violence. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on January 20, 2026, from Havana
The State of the Union address, which takes place every year in the plenary session of the US House of Representatives, is a political exercise that has been used for decades to present the executive branch’s main proposals and concerns to the legislative branch. As political polarization has increased in that country, the staging has evolved into an exhibitionist platform, where, in addition to slogans, personalities are projected who appear the next day in the headlines of the main (mis)information media. (more…)
January 17, 2026, Buenos Aires
for 40 years the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo have gathered to demand justice for their missing children. foto: Bill Hackwell
As they have done for more than forty years, repeating the ritual every Thursday, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo once again gathered at the Pyramid in the Plaza to demand justice for their missing relatives and children. On this occasion, marking the tenth anniversary of the arrest of Tupac Amaru leader Milagro Sala, the usual demand for justice for the 30,000 was joined by the demand for the release of the Jujuy leader. “What they are doing to this woman is an outrage and a disgrace,” said Carmen Arias, president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association. (more…)
By Mark Ginsburg on January 16, 2026
The opening of the 65th anniversary of ICAP. fotos: Bill Hackwell
Between December 21 and January 3, I traveled to Cuba to participate in events organized to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples. I stayed at ICAP’s “Julio Antonio Mella International Camp” in the province of Artemisa along with approximately 120 Cuba solidarity activists from 24 countries (including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Catalan Countries, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Luxembourg, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Russia, Sweden, the United States, and Venezuela.) (more…)