October 26,2025
The 17th Meeting of Cubans Resident in Europe (ECRE) commenced in Italy with a patriotic march through central avenues of Rome, a regional event of nationals from the Island in support of their people and their country’s government. (more…)
October 14, 2025
Venezuela’s Embassy in Oslo after it was closed on Oct. 13. Fredrik Varfjel/AFP
On Monday, Venezuela’s Foreign Ministry announced that it has begun the first phase of a comprehensive restructuring of its foreign service, ordering the closure of its embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia.“As part of the strategic reallocation of resources, the closure of the embassies in the Kingdom of Norway and Australia has been ordered,” the ministry said in a statement. (more…)
By Ivan Restrepo on October 13, 2025
Migration is neither a recent phenomenon nor unique to a particular part of the world. foto: AFP
In February 1947, Eleanor Roosevelt, writer and activist, and wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945); Peng Chun Chang, Chinese scholar, philosopher, human rights activist, and diplomat; and Charles Habib Malik, Lebanese scholar, diplomat, and philosopher, began drafting what would become known a year later as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was adopted by the countries that were part of the nascent United Nations (UN). It was a response to the “acts of barbarism outrageous to the conscience of mankind” committed during World War II. The declaration was signed at the Chaillot Palace in Paris. (more…)
October 5, 2025
Gustavo Petro. Photo: Presidency of Colombia.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has out right rejected US attacks on ships in the Caribbean as part of the fight against international drug trafficking. (more…)
By Sacha Llorenti September 19, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Historian Eric Hobsbawn described the 20th century as a short one that began in 1914 with the start of World War I and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. He called this period the Age of Extremes. (more…)
By John Perry and Francisco Dominguez on September 15, 2025
El Pais; the Spanish newspaper that without shame supported the 2018 coup attempt in Nicaragua.
The “spied upon” headline from El Pais is unequivocal. The story, in the newspaper’s English-language edition, says that Nicaraguans live in “a climate of permanent surveillance” in which they distrust even their neighbors. Further, apparently harmless community meetings are really “a mechanism of social control” where they “feel watched.” El Pais sources a survey carried out “independently” by an organization called Hagamos Democracia (“Let’s Make Democracy”), based in Costa Rica. Its president, Jesús Tefel, says that people can’t “express opinions openly for fear of being betrayed.” El Pais’s conclusion is that Nicaraguans live under “constant surveillance and repression.” (more…)
By Geraldina Colotti, on September 15, 2025
Alex Saab and Nicolas Maduro
Observing the US naval maneuvers in Caribbean waters and the provocations and threats against Bolivarian Venezuela by Trump’s second administration, a similar episode during the tycoon’s first term comes to mind. We are referring to November 2020, when the United States deployed a warship—the missile cruiser USS San Jacinto—off the coast of Cape Verde: to prevent, according to the New York Times, “the regime” in Venezuela and Iran (and later Russia) from attempting to free Alex Saab, the Venezuelan diplomat who was kidnapped and tortured for trying to break the economic siege on Venezuela by importing food and medicine. This was at the height of COVID-19, a global pandemic. (more…)
September 15, 2025
A hundred media outlets and journalists’ associations have signed a statement asking the US government to withdraw its previously announced plans to shorten the duration of visas for foreign journalists to less than one year. (more…)