By Roger D. Harris on February 12, 2024
state workers march against US sanctions
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution marks its 25th anniversary this month, despite continuous US-led hybrid warfare to overthrow the socialist project. The Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro has successfully forced the US to de facto engage with it, although Washington still maintains the fiction that the defunct 2015 National Assembly is the “last remaining democratic institution” there. (more…)
By Raul Capote Fernandez on February 9, 2024
Gen. Richardson, photo: Mark Wilson / AFP
A little over a year ago, in January 2023, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, with total disarmament mentioned, in a conversation held at the Atlantic Council think tank, why Washington really cares about Latin America. (more…)
By Adreina Chavez Alava on February 8, 2024 from Caracas
The Venezuelan government has warned of a “proportionate response” to new threats from Guyana’s military partners. photo: Gaby Oraa/Bloomberg
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez has strongly criticized the expansion of US corporation Exxon Mobil’s oil exploration in the territorial waters of the disputed Essequibo region. (more…)
By Justo Cruz on February 9, 2024
Brussels Tribunal against the blockade. Photo: Cubainformacion
“I have never allowed that hatred to enter my world”. I heard Dr. Belinda Sánchez Ramírez, director of immunology and imuno therapy at the Center for Molecular Immunology in Havana, say this phrase a few months ago in Brussels during the sessions of the International Tribunal Against the Blockade (more…)
By Ramón Pedregal Casanova on February 6, 2024
photo: Bill Hackwell
The attack on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) was prepared for when the International Court of Justice announced their decision. The Zionazis knew that they were going to be condemned based on the facts, there were not going to be opinions or particular interpretations, only facts, and so it was. (more…)
By Mark Ginsburg on February 7, 2024
MLK Center in Havana
A country the US still calls ‘terrorist’ celebrates the legacy of a US civil rights leader (more…)
By Otto Fors and R.F.Landers on February 7, 2024
photo: Enfoque Rojo
This week in Argentina, members of congress voted on the highly repressive Omnibus Bill proposed by far-right president Javier Milei. After a general strike and four days of massive mobilizations, the bill was withdrawn. It’s a huge victory for the working class and the movement in the streets. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on February 8, 2024
On 2 February 2024, the people of Venezuela celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Bolivarian Revolution. On that day in 1999, Hugo Chávez took office as the president of Venezuela and began a process of Latin American integration that – because of US intransigence – accelerated into an anti-imperialist process. (more…)