By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on February 13, 2025
Musk and Trump, photo: Aaron Schwartz, Bloomberg
Elon Musk, sworn in as Secretary for Government Efficiency, thundered: “The time has come for USAID to die.” His words resonated like the harbinger of an imminent storm. Shortly afterwards, Donald Trump, on his first day back in the White House, ordered the suspension of almost all US foreign assistance for three months, especially that of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). (more…)
By John Perry and Roger D. Harris on February 11, 2025
“Take your money with you,” said Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, when told about Trump’s plans to cut aid to Latin America, “it’s poison.”
USAID (US Agency for International Development) spends around $2 billion annually in Latin America, which is only 5% of its global budget. The temporarily closed-down agency’s future looks bleak, while reactions to its money being cut have been wide-ranging. Only a few were as strong as Petro’s and many condemned the move. For example, WOLA (the Washington Office on Latin America), a leading “liberal” think tank which routinely runs cover for Washington’s regime-change efforts, called it Trump’s “America Last” policy. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 11, 2025
Luisa Gonzalez
On February 9, Ecuadorians went to the polls to vote in the highly anticipated presidential election, as well as to elect all 151 members of the National Assembly. The results of the first round of voting have set the stage for a run-off in April, as no candidate achieved the required 50% threshold to win outright. (more…)
February 11, 2025
This Monday, February 10, the Venezuelan government announced that two planes belonging to the state airline Conviasa departed from the Biggs Army Airfield in Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, United States, on their way back to Venezuela. The planes are returning to Venezuela as part of the “Return to the Homeland” program, designed to repatriate Venezuelan migrants affected by economic sanctions and “psychological warfare campaigns” against the country. (more…)
By Atilio A. Boron on February 10, 2025
By glorifying the figure of William McKinley, president of the United States between March 4, 1897 and September 14, 1901, Donald Trump is trying to find a universally acclaimed precedent for his controversial policies in the political history of the United States. (more…)
February 10, 2025.
US soldier at the border
The Pentagon will send another 1,500 active-duty soldiers to the Mexican border to support President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, an American official said yesterday. This would bring the number of troops on the US-Mexico border to 3,600. (more…)
February 10, 2025
photo: Ismael Francisco
A Western Union statement, cited in digital media, has revealed that, “due to a change in U.S. sanctions regulations,” the financial services company is forced to indefinitely suspend its money transfer service to Cuba, “this will go into affect immediately.” (more…)
By Francisco Delgado Rodríguez on February 8, 2025
Photo: Fernando Vergara/ AP
The ineffable Elon Musk has just given us some interesting news by labeling the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as an institution with criminal, illegal aims. He accused it of being linked to intelligence operations, coups d’état and even the conception and spread of Covid-19. (more…)