By Geraldina Colotti, from Caracas on March 14, 2026
Ali Chegini, Iranian ambassador to Venezuela
In Plaza Bolívar, photos of the girls killed in Iran by U.S. drones are arranged in a circle beneath the monument to the Liberator. On stage, speeches by activists and artists alternate. At the tables of the Cuba-Venezuela Association, medicines are being collected to send to Havana. Women and men hold flags of Iran, Palestine, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries and movements, including those from the United States, represented by the international delegation of the People’s Congress, which has just arrived from Cuba at the initiative of the Brazilian Landless Movement. Everyone watches, moved, as the Comunicalle theater group performs “La Matria Palestina,” battered, wounded, but not subdued. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on March 13, 2026 from Caracas
The global political landscape is marked by intense debate over the intentions and methods of U.S. foreign policy, especially in the face of rising aggression with nations like Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran. Pawel Wargan, Political Coordinator of the Progressive International, offers a critical analysis of what he characterizes as a coherent and rational U.S. strategy aimed at undermining sovereign nations one at a time. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on March 12, 2026
illustration : Collectivo
In recent years, the Latin American far right has launched a crusade against the rights of women and sex-gender dissidents, hoping to crush some of the region’s most active opposition to neoliberalism. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on March 11, 2026
Hugo Chavez greeting Ayatollah
Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by Washington. The world’s hegemon naturally seeks access to such resources. Yet it would be simplistic to think that would be only for narrow economic motives. (more…)
By Javier F Ferrero on March 8, 2026
Wars are not won with tweets.
For years, Donald Trump sold the fantasy of quick wars. Surgical strikes, lightning operations, easy and cheap victories that could be announced at press conferences or celebrated on social media. But the reality of modern warfare is less cinematic and much more costly. And now the US president himself is beginning to discover this. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on March 6, 2026
The US military acts as the world’s policeman, with its own laws. Photo EFE
I am fed up with listening to opinion makers, supposed analysts, and so-called “journalists” from the hegemonic media and their outlets on social media, and even ordinary people of good faith who, in their naivety, are vilely deceived by those who peddle the fairy tale of the United States as the land of freedom, democracy, and human rights. (more…)
Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Thursday to sign the Book of Condolences opened in honor of the leader of the Islamic Revolution, the martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei. (more…)
By Jim Cason and David Brooks on March 3, 2026
foto: AFP
Contradictory messages, shifting objectives, and now warnings that the US war against Iran could drag on for weeks are generating growing opposition within his own country—even among his own ranks—and questions about why President Donald Trump launched this military action, even after his own military leaders concluded that there was no imminent threat to the US. (more…)