By Vijay Prashad on September 4, 2025
At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
Per Krohg (Norway), Untitled (Mural for Peace), 1952.
There is only one treaty in the world that, despite its limitations, binds nations together: the United Nations Charter. Representatives of fifty nations wrote and ratified the UN Charter in 1945, with others joining in the years that followed. The charter itself only sets the terms for the behaviour of nations. It does not and cannot create a new world. It depends on individual nations to either live by the charter or die without it. (more…)
By Pino Arlacchi on September 2, 2025
Arlacchi says the Trump administration’s main interest is to access Venezuela’s massive oil reserves. (Miraflores Palace)
During my time as head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), I frequently traveled to Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, but never to Venezuela. There was simply no need. (more…)
Sept. 1, 2025 from Caracas
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro
On Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held a press conference with representatives of international media in which he analyzed the current geopolitical situation in the Caribbean.During the meeting with journalists, the Bolivarian leader addressed the international situation from multiple angles, the main ones of which are presented below. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on September 1, 2025
the myth of the “Tren de Aragu” bogey man
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the United States government agencies began to repeat the name “Tren de Aragu”’ as if it were the new al-Qaeda. In January 2025, the White House designated Tren de Aragua as a “foreign terrorist organisation”, and in March, the administration of US President Donald Trump evoked the Alien Enemies Act (1789) to warn against the ‘invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua’. The US State Department, in February 2025, had declared that Tren de Aragua was an international drug cartel on par with such already recognised cartels as the Mexican Las Zetas (now Cártel del Noreste), Sinaloa, and Jalisco cartels as well as the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) that was formed in Los Angeles (US) and has now taken root in El Salvador thanks to a decade-long US deportation policy. Unlike Tren de Aragua, these other cartels are well-known, and their work has been frequently documented by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on August 30, 2025
Marco Rubio
The use of an alleged link to the illegal drug trade as a pretext for the United States to take forceful action against the governments of Mexico and Venezuela not only provokes political rejection, but also calls for clarification of certain background information that the US side is hiding or selectively ignoring. (more…)
By Arthur González on August 30, 2025
US Embassy in Havana
During the administration of President James Carter, on September 1, 1977, the U.S. Interests Section in Havana (SINA) and the Cuban Interests Section in Washington were opened. The Yankees took advantage of diplomatic representation to carry out espionage activities against Cuba, illegally supplying agents they recruited abroad with modern technologies for transmitting and receiving information, mainly about the Cuban economy, a situation denounced by the Cuban government in 1987 on national television, but silenced in the US press so that its citizens would not know about the disaster for the CIA of having believed in its 27 agents, who in reality answered to Cuban State Security and who for years passed on false information to the CIA. (more…)
August 29, 2025
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino
Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino questioned the deployment of destroyers by the United States in the Caribbean, stating that the real objective is not to combat drug trafficking but to attack Venezuela. (more…)
By Manolo De Los Santos on August 29, 2025
As the people of New Orleans suffered from mass devastation and state neglect following Hurricane Katrina, Cuba’s offer of solidarity was rejected
Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast of the United States, a Category 5 monster that exposed the raw nerves of inequality, racism, and governmental neglect in the United States. While the storm itself was a force of nature, the true disaster was the response – or lack thereof – from the world’s wealthiest nation. Yet, amidst the chaos and despair, a beacon of international solidarity shone brightly, emanating from an unexpected place: Cuba. (more…)