By David Brooks and Jim Cason on September 8, 2025
José La Luz is an activist with the new party project called Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (Citizen Victory Movement)
Following a severe crisis that continues to deepen, new generations of islanders are seeking to free themselves from US control, which requires the creation of a broad front that differs from the two existing political parties. For the veteran defender of workers, it is gratifying that young artists—such as singers Bad Bunny and Residente—are part of a new movement, although the challenge remains to educate those who work in that nation and suffer from the austerity measures imposed by the continental government through another Fiscal Control Board. (more…)
September 9, 2025
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (L) and Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa (R), Sept 8, 2025. X/ @primera84727
On Monday, during a television program broadcast by Russia Today, former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa interviewed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with whom he analyzed the geopolitical implications of the presence of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean. (more…)
By José R. Cabañas Rodríguez on September 8, 2025
Secretary of Health Robert Kennedy is accused of “disregard for science and the truth” in Senate hearing.
Since Donald Trump’s rise to power in his second term as president of the United States, there has been a significant amount of criticism of his foreign and domestic policy initiatives, which have been linked to the idea that his actions, rather than defending the country’s national (or federal) interests, are actually weakening its political leadership and economic strength. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris and Joe Emersberger on September 6, 2025
the supposed drug boat destroyed by the US
President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military had just blown up a small motor vessel in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. He alleged that the skiff came from Venezuela and was loaded with illicit drugs headed to the US. (more…)
By Alejandra García, September 4, 2025
Pensioners and people with disabilities protest Milei’s austerity plan. Photo: Anadolu/Getty
In a key vote, the government of far-right politician Javier Milei suffered a major setback in Congress on Thursday. The Senate rejected the presidential veto of the Disability Emergency Law, which had already been rejected by the Chamber of Deputies. This is the first time in 22 years that Congress has managed to override an executive veto. The vote was celebrated inside and outside Congress, where hundreds of people awaited the decision. This resolution comes amid a scandal over an investigation into alleged bribery in the purchase of medicines by the National Disability Agency (Andis), in which senior government officials are implicated, including the president’s sister, Karina Milei. (more…)
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…)