By Isaac Saney on December 26, 2025
Trinidad and Tobago’s new Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s receiving Marco Rubio’s support.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s declaration that Caricom is no longer a reliable partner, coupled with her insistence that her country must now “choose our path”, marks a potentially historic rupture in the long and fragile project of Caribbean unity. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on December 24, 2025
Venezuela’s UN ambassador Samual Mondcada condemns US aggression against his country.
On Tuesday, the United Nations Security Council convened a special session at the request of Venezuela to address the escalating threats by the United States to international peace and security. The meeting included representatives from several Latin American nations -Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua- who condemned the increasing militarization of Caribbean waters by the US. These nations accused Washington of violating international law, including the United Nations Charter, with actions such as the US navy bombing small boats with impunity and pirating Venezuelan oil ships. (more…)
By Jesús Arboleya on December 24, 2025
The Donald Trump administration has, for the first time, placed new Cuban immigrants in legal limbo, which could lead to their deportation. This has disrupted the relationship between the privileges granted to Cuban immigrants, unparalleled in US history, and the role played by these migrants in US policy toward Cuba. (more…)
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…)