By Geraldina Colotti, from Caracas on March 14, 2026
Ali Chegini, Iranian ambassador to Venezuela
In Plaza Bolívar, photos of the girls killed in Iran by U.S. drones are arranged in a circle beneath the monument to the Liberator. On stage, speeches by activists and artists alternate. At the tables of the Cuba-Venezuela Association, medicines are being collected to send to Havana. Women and men hold flags of Iran, Palestine, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries and movements, including those from the United States, represented by the international delegation of the People’s Congress, which has just arrived from Cuba at the initiative of the Brazilian Landless Movement. Everyone watches, moved, as the Comunicalle theater group performs “La Matria Palestina,” battered, wounded, but not subdued. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 13, 2026 from Caracas
The global political landscape is marked by intense debate over the intentions and methods of U.S. foreign policy, especially in the face of rising aggression with nations like Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Pawel Wargan, Political Coordinator of the Progressive International, offers a critical analysis of what he characterizes as a coherent and rational U.S. strategy aimed at undermining sovereign nations one at a time. (more…)
By John Perry on March 12, 2026
Ten years ago Berta Cáceres, a campaigner against dams and mining projects that were displacing rural communities in Honduras, said that death threats had forced her to lead a ‘fugitive existence’. Most of the threats came from a company, Desarrollos Energeticos SA (DESA), that was planning a hydroelectric project on the Gualcarque River, sacred to Cáceres’s Indigenous Lenca community. (more…)
By Justine Medina on March 11, 2026
“Put three Cubans in a room together, you’ll have five different opinions,” a Cuban friend of mine likes to joke. He was referring to debates in the town-hall meetings during Cuba’s constitutional convention process of 2018. But I immediately thought, of course, of any Nochebuena celebration at my dad’s house, just a few hundred miles north. Siblings, cousins, babies, abuelas, family, and friends of all ages and political opinions gathered around a brilliant feast. Between the devouring of lechón, yuca, plátanos, and flan, a flurry of back and forth between English and Spanish. Everyone hugging, praying, laughing, and occasionally yelling. Well, maybe more than occasionally. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on March 12, 2026
illustration : Collectivo
In recent years, the Latin American far right has launched a crusade against the rights of women and sex-gender dissidents, hoping to crush some of the region’s most active opposition to neoliberalism. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on March 12, 2026
Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro delivering a speech to students at the University of Havana in 2015. Photo: Roberto Chile/Cubadebate
During the invasion of Cuba at Playa Girón, the attackers’ air force had around 30 aircraft, including B-26 bombers and C-46 and C-54 transport planes used to drop paratroopers and provide logistical support for the landing. On the Cuban side, in April 1961, the revolutionary air force could barely muster eight operational aircraft: a few Sea Fury fighters, a couple of T-33 jets, and a handful of B-26s recovered after the fall of Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship. The disparity was enormous, and yet in less than 72 hours, those eight aircraft proved decisive in breaking through enemy defenses and striking a blow to the invasion’s logistics. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on March 11, 2026
Hugo Chavez greeting Ayatollah
Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by Washington. The world’s hegemon naturally seeks access to such resources. Yet it would be simplistic to think that would be only for narrow economic motives. (more…)
By Yldefonso Finol, Aporrea, on March 10, 2026.
I will not appeal to the lifeless papers of international law. Nicolás Maduro is a prisoner of war, as he himself declared in his first—and only—appearance before a Yankee court. He is the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, kidnapped along with his wife, Congresswoman Cilia Flores, during a premeditated and treacherous armed attack by the United States government, resulting in the deaths of a large number of people, the exact number of which has not yet been specified by official sources. (more…)