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5 Defiant Declarations: Sheinbaum Reaffirms Mexico’s Sovereignty Amid US Threats

President Sheinbaum declared Mexico’s unwavering independence while delivering housing units in Reynosa, just miles from the U.S. border.

On January 25, 2026, President Sheinbaum declared Mexico’s unwavering independence while delivering housing units in Reynosa, just miles from the U.S. border. (more…)

Trump’s Collapse Is On the Way

By David Brooks on January 25, 2026

image: Mark Peterson

Last week, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said that what he fears most is “the moment when everything explodes.” I share his concern. If we follow the trajectory of events, it is quite clear that we are heading toward some kind of collapse. (more…)

Venezuela and its Economic and Social Development

By Hedelberto López Blanch on January 24, 2026

In 2025, Venezuela became the country with the highest economic growth and social benefits for its population, despite constant harassment and illegal extortion, euphemistically called “sanctions” imposed by the US regime. (more…)

The Invasion and the Constitution

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…)

Argentina: After Trump’s Bailout, Milei Issues Emergency Decree to Ramp Up Surveillance

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…)

Why Nicaragua is not Washington’s Next War – Yet

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…)

42 Years of Struggle: How the MST Became a National Project for Social Transformation

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…)

Trump Received Nobel Peace Prize from Maria Corina Machado. But Who is She?

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…)

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