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…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 13, 2025
Nicolas Maduro
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Within the narrow spectrum of establishment punditry, “dictator” functions as a term of opprobrium reserved for governments Washington designates as enemies. By this measure, Maduro is cast as the dictator, while Zelenskyy is sanctified as democratic. (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti 0n December 12, 2025
Reports from institutions responsible for analyzing this global phenomenon show that the United States’ aggressive maneuvers in the Caribbean were not aimed at drug trafficking: Reports from the UN, the DEA, the European Union, and the World Customs Organization over several years reveal that Venezuela is an “irrelevant” country in terms of drug production and trafficking. So much so that Venezuela has seized 70% of what has been attempted to pass through Venezuelan territory, which does not exceed 6% of the total traffic between Ecuador, Colombia, and the United States. (more…)
By Rick Sterling on December 10, 2025
600,000 rally in Mexico City in support of Claudia Sheinbaum and the Morena program.
On Saturday, December 6 an estimated 600 thousand persons packed the huge “Zocalo” plaza in Mexico City to celebrate the seventh anniversary of Mexico’s “Transformation.” President Claudia Sheinbaum, after one year in power, gave a powerful speech outlining the progress Mexico is making as well as specific goals, plans and promises for the remainder of her five years in office. (more…)
December 7, 2025
President Gustavo Petro
The CNE accepted the merger of the left-wing parties Unión Patriótica, Polo Democrático Alternativo, Comunista and Progresistas, leaving only Colombia Humana out. (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on December 9, 2025
As Washington intensifies its hybrid war against Venezuela—combining sanctions, lawfare, psychological operations, and military threats—the South American country once again finds itself in the headlines. To understand this moment, Cira Pascual Marquina spoke with Geraldina Colotti, an Italian journalist, revolutionary militant, and former political prisoner who has engaged with Venezuela for decades. Colotti argues that the current offensive against the Caribbean nation is part of a broader imperial strategy to reassert US hegemony amid a terminal crisis of global capitalism. Drawing parallels with Iraq, Libya, Palestine, and Vietnam, she explains how the Bolivarian Revolution represents the “threat of a good example” and why, despite suffocating sanctions and relentless destabilization, Venezuela continues to be a living paradigm of popular resistance. (more…)