August 26, 2025
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun on Monday, August 25, 2025. Photo: X/@MFA_China.
On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said that “Latin America and the Caribbean are not anyone’s backyard,” in response to recent reports in which the commander of the US Southern Command accused China of “infiltrating and plundering resources” from countries in the region. (more…)
August 25, 2025
Presidents of Venezuela and Cuba.
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel reiterated on Monday the support of the largest of the Antilles for the Bolivarian and Chavista Revolution in Venezuela, led by President Nicolás Maduro, who faces threats from the United States government. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez,on August 25, 2025
Foto: Agustin Marcarian
Were mistakes made? Of course, and of all sizes. Mistakes that did not begin only when Luis Arce Catacora took office, nor when Evo Morales returned to the country and was greeted by crowds of supporters, nor when Arce and his entourage plunged headlong into neoliberalism, bringing a host of misfortunes to large sectors of the population. In fact, already in the latter part of President Evo’s term, shortcomings were also detected, misguided shifts, internal factions that did not help to build, inconclusive struggles that revealed antagonistic ideological vectors between “Alvaristas” and “Evistas,” and which at the time were denounced by those great revolutionaries, the Peredo brothers (Chato and Osvaldo) and Mallku Felipe Quispe. (more…)
Aug. 25, -19 killed at Nasser Hospital in a double-tap strike with one missile hitting first, then another moments later as rescue crews arrived. 5 journalist were also killed raising the toll to 245. photo:Abdallah FS Alattar/Anadolu
Joint statement by the Cuban chapter of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity, the internationalist collective Juntas por Palestina and the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity on August 25, 2025, Havana (more…)
August 24, 2025
US Navy flexing in the Caribbean
The news sparked widespread speculation about a possible U.S. military intervention in Venezuela to destabilize or oust President Nicolas Maduro, for whom the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had offered a US$50 million reward for information leading to his capture. (more…)
By Manolo De Los Santos and Zoe Alexandra on August 22, 2025
Evo Morales greets thousands of supporters in 2020. Photo: Evo Morales / X
The defeat of the left in Bolivia has raised a series of existential questions for the left in the region, and led many to draw hurried conclusions on where the blame lies
Bolivia’s left lost big in Sunday’s election, and a lot of the analysis in progressive circles has focused solely on the feud between former president Evo Morales and sitting president, Luis Arce. Morales was barred from running in the elections by Arce’s government and subsequently called for a null or blank vote in the contest. On Sunday, August 17, two right-wing candidates, Rodrigo Paz and Jorge Quiroga, emerged victorious, and they will proceed to the second round in October. (more…)
by Vijay Prashad on August 22nd, 2025
Karen Paulina Biswell (Colombia) Nama Bu’ (We Exist), 2015
Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are forced to live life as if there is nothing strange about what is happening around us. When we read about war, it is disconnected from our lives, and many of us want to stop listening to anything about the human misery caused by weapons or by sanctions. The scholasticism of the academic and the hushed tones of the diplomat are silenced as the bomb and the bank wage war against the planet. After authorising the atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima (Japan) on 6 August 1945, US President Harry S. Truman announced on the radio: ‘If [the Japanese] do not now accept our terms, they may expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been seen on this earth’. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on August 21, 2025
National Bolivarian Militia to defend Venezuela’s “territory, sovereignty, and peace.”
Venezuela is once again facing a psychological and media offensive from the U.S. government, led by President Donald Trump. This week, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt reaffirmed Washington’s aggressive and interventionist policy, declaring that her country “is willing to use all elements of U.S. power” to halt the alleged flow of drugs into its territory and “bring those responsible to justice.” (more…)