December 21, 2025 from Caracas
Screen grab from a video of the US Coast Guard boarding an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, constituting a new US imperialist aggression
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez reported Saturday that Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) reached its goal of producing 1.2 million barrels of crude oil per day this year. Simultaneously, Washington announced the hijacking of a second Venezuelan oil tanker carrying the South American country’s crude this month, raising international and regional tensions about a disruption in oil supplies and potential military escalation. (more…)
By William Castillo Bolé on December 21, 2025
The sin we have committed in Venezuela is to dare, for the first time in a hundred years, to confront the gross privileges of a senseless and insensitive oligarchy… Hugo Chávez, January 2003 (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 20, 2025
In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more recent “kinetic strikes.” Yet the officially stated justification for the US empire’s escalating offensive remains elusive. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on December 18, 2025
LIBRE campaign rally in November ahead of the elections. Photo: LIBRE
Two weeks after elections in Honduras, no winner has yet been declared yet. As the irregularities grow, both the Liberal Party and LIBRE have denounced electoral fraud is being committed in favor of the far-right candidate. (more…)
December 18, 2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has demanded that Donald Trump return the territory of Texas that was stolen by the US. He made the comment in response to the real estate mogul’s statement that Venezuelan oil belongs to his country. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on December 18, 2025
In 1829, Simón Bolívar issued a warning that has echoed across two centuries of struggle: “The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.” Bolívar was not indulging in rhetorical excess. He was diagnosing an emerging imperial logic—one that cloaked domination in the language of freedom, conquest in the rhetoric of democracy, and plunder in the vocabulary of order. Nearly two hundred years later, as U.S. warships prowl the Caribbean, sanctions tighten into sieges, and unilateral force replaces international law, Bolívar’s words read less like prophecy than political realism. (more…)
Edited by Ed Newman on December 17, 2025
Julian Assange
Julian Assange has filed a criminal complaint in Sweden accusing 30 individuals associated with the Nobel Foundation, including its leadership, of committing serious suspected crimes, including the crime of gross misappropriation of funds, facilitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the financing of the crime of aggression. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on December 18, 2025
Republican Congressman Carlos Gimenez in a file photo.
The “three crazy Cubans” are on a rampage. For years, Mario Diaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, and Carlos Gimenez have presented themselves in the U.S. Congress as a cohesive Cuban-American bloc: hardline against governments they call “totalitarian,” applauding sanctions and publicly defending draconian measures that would be difficult to accept in a truly democratic context. (more…)