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…)
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…)
January 20, 2026
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez responded today from this capital to Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who made statements against the island and the historic leadership of the Revolution. (more…)
January 20, 2026
Mortal remains of the Cuban combatants, Jan. 2026. X/ @EmbRusCuba
They demonstrated moral superiority and courage in defending the sovereignty of the Bolivarian nation. (more…)
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…)
January 17, 2026, Buenos Aires
for 40 years the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo have gathered to demand justice for their missing children. foto: Bill Hackwell
As they have done for more than forty years, repeating the ritual every Thursday, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo once again gathered at the Pyramid in the Plaza to demand justice for their missing relatives and children. On this occasion, marking the tenth anniversary of the arrest of Tupac Amaru leader Milagro Sala, the usual demand for justice for the 30,000 was joined by the demand for the release of the Jujuy leader. “What they are doing to this woman is an outrage and a disgrace,” said Carmen Arias, president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association. (more…)
By Elia Rosa Yera Zayas Bazán on January 17, 2026 from Camaguey, Cuba
Yohandris Varona Torres receives an embrace. foto: Leandro Pérez Pérez
Yohandris Varona Torres saw the photos of the 32 Cubans who died in Venezuela on January 3 and couldn’t help but be moved. He did so this morning at the tribute held at the Nicolás Guillén Protocol Hall in Camagüey. It wasn’t the first time he had seen them. He wasn’t looking at images of strangers. They were his comrades and he was there fighting with them. And we know that death becomes more real when it touches your family, friends, or team closely. (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on January 18, 2026 from Caracas
There are moments when geopolitics stops being an abstraction and becomes something you feel in your body. In Caracas, January 3 was one of those moments. The low, grinding sound of warplanes overhead, the shockwaves from explosions rippling through apartment blocks, the brief, suspended silence that follows—it all collapses the distance between imperialist violence and everyday life. (more…)