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…)
By Alejandra Garcia and Bill Hackwell on December 16, 2025
Kast and Pinochet
Chile woke up this December to a major political fact: José Antonio Kast—son of a Nazi officer and a defender of Pinochet—won the presidential runoff with 58.16% of the vote against Jeannette Jara’s 41.84%. His victory became the emblem of a conservative return that is not only Chilean, but part of a broader regional cycle of “punishment voting” and demands for “order.” (more…)
By Yimel Diaz Malmierca on December 14, 2025
Cuba solidarity activists in So. California with aid shipment going to hurricane victims, foto: LAHOC
Trade unions, solidarity activists, and health professionals in Los Angeles, California, organized a shipment of medical supplies valued at one million dollars bound for Cuba. The purpose is to support the health system, especially in caring for the victims of Melissa, the hurricane that last October severely affected several provinces in the eastern part of the country. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on December 16, 2024
illustration by Ylli Haruni
Pirates of centuries past were newborn babies compared to the convicted president and megalomaniac, Donald Trump, who threatens wars, imposes “sanctions,” accuses sovereign and democratic countries of drug trafficking without evidence, and even hijacks oil tankers in his quest to seize and control all of Latin America and the Caribbean. (more…)
By Cira Pascual Marquina on December 15, 2025
From the heart of the US colony, a geographer and activist explains that Washington’s “new” security strategy looks a great deal like the old one.
As the United States reasserts its hemispheric priorities in its recent National Security Strategy document, Latin America and the Caribbean are once again cast as a zone of interest, with Venezuela squarely in Washington’s sights. Puerto Rico—still a US colony more than a century after the 1898 invasion—plays a central role in this imperial architecture, serving as both a military platform and a living example of colonial rule in the region. (more…)