By Roger D. Harris on November 22, 2025
Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives.
Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls Operation Southern Spear. (more…)
By Juan Reardon and Nils McCune on November 20, 2025
“Formation must be linked to a strategic political project for the transformation of society. This very project is constantly under development and formation must be part of the process. For this reason, formation cannot be dogmatic nor spontaneous but instead should be prepared, planned and combined with the development of the strategic objectives of the organization.”
– La Via Campesina (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on November 20, 2025
Melania Trump, delivers a speech at the Mega Hangar at New River Marine Corps Air Station in North Carolina, on November 19, 2025. Foto: AFP
The Reagan administration updated the old Monroe Doctrine, referring to Latin America as “our backyard.” In the United States, the expression sounds almost endearing: the backyard is the place for barbecues and children’s games. South of the Rio Grande, however, “backyard” translates into corral: the place where chickens are raised, junk is accumulated, old washing machines are thrown away, and it ends up looking like a small domestic cemetery. (more…)
By Isaac Saney on November 18, 2025
‘For Cuba, we’ll create together’ – Havana, May 1, 2025. foto: Bill Hackwell
Every few years, The Economist resurrects a familiar script: Cuba is collapsing; Cuba is imploding; Cuba must “change drastically”—invariably in the direction of neoliberalism and U.S. tutelage. Its November 18, 2025 article, dripping with manufactured pity and well-rehearsed contempt, repeats this tired chorus. With moral indignation, it lists prices of eggs and rice, invokes the spectre of humanitarian crisis, and declares—again—that Cuba is heading toward disaster. (more…)
By Emir Olivares y Néstor Jiménez, from Mexico City on November 18, 2025
“It’s not going to happen,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo in response to statements made by her US counterpart, Donald Trump, who yesterday said he could launch attacks against Mexico to prevent drugs from entering US territory. (more…)
November 18, 2025
President Nicolas Maduro and Ignacio Ramonet Nov. 2025.
Spanish writer Ignacio Ramonet holds an exclusive conversation with the Bolivarian leader.
I am in Venezuela to present, at the Caracas Book Fair, my new work: “The Infinite Conversation” (Acirema Publishing), a compilation of interviews with 10 geniuses. I arrive here at a particular moment because this country could be attacked at any time. (more…)
November 17, 2025
Election day, which brought out more than 13.9 million Ecuadorians, passed peacefully. Photo: EFE
The “No” vote won in the referendum across the country
What did Ecuadorians reject?
The results of the popular consultation and referendum in Ecuador, held this Sunday, gave a clear advantage to the “No” option on the four key questions promoted by the government of US backed President Daniel Noboa, in a day characterized by high citizen participation. The initiatives promoted by President Noboa, supposedly focused on “protecting national sovereignty”. (more…)
November 16, 2025
“Our future is not for sale” Fotos: Ivan Pisarenko/AFP
Indigenous-led protest in Belem urges climate action, fossil fuel phase-out and justice for affected communities.
Tens of thousands of people have thronged the streets of an Amazonian city hosting the COP30 talks, dancing to pounding speakers in the first large-scale protest at a United Nations climate summit in years. (more…)