By Adele Robichez, José Eduardo Bernardes and Larissa Bohrer on October 19, 2025
Imperialism out of Venezuela, – Mauro Ramos
Movement leader compares initiative to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s
The national leader of Brazil’s Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST), João Pedro Stédile, announced that popular movements across Latin America are coordinating to send brigades of activists to Venezuela in solidarity with the country’s government and people, amid growing threats of a possible U.S. military intervention. The statement was made in an interview with Radio BdF. (more…)
By Maria Páez Victor on October 20, 2025
US SEALs train at Joint Expeditionary Base Photo: William S. Parker/US Navy/file photo.
Funny thing about war: it is relatively easy to start. An insult here. A lie there. A “false flag” as a casus belli there, and shots, bombs, missiles ensue…and destruction and deaths follow until there is some sort of “victory”. However, when the odds are stacked against a much smaller opponent that is facing an overwhelmingly larger foe, then “victory” will not appear straightforward, or even clear. It will be messy. (more…)
By Gloria Guillo on October 19, 2025
In Nicaragua, where children often need to be treated for parasite infections, a treatment with albendazole costs around 10¢. In the US, parasitic infections are increasing it costs $380.
In The Graduate (1967), a family friend corners young Benjamin Braddock with one word of advice for his future: “Plastics.” It was a nod to a booming, transformative industry—lucrative, ubiquitous, and shaping modern life. Today, a new contender emerges in the pharmaceutical realm: anti-parasitical drugs like albendazole. (more…)
October 19, 2025
Colombian President Gustavo Petro
Colombian President Gustavo Petro demanded formal explanations from the U.S. government on Saturday after denouncing that a Colombian fisherman was allegedly killed during an air strike carried out by U.S. forces in Colombian territorial waters on September 16. (more…)
By Nicolas Romero Reeves on October 13, 2024
Chile’s Boric a supporter of Machado and Zelensky
The recent support of Gabriel Boric’s government—through its foreign minister and figures from his coalition such as Jeannette Jara—for the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to María Corina Machado is not only incomprehensible: it is an affront to common sense and Latin American sovereignty. (more…)
By Manolo De Los Santos October 15, 2025
A US Army soldier watching a burning oil well at Rumaila oil field in Iraq in April 2003. Photo: US Navy
The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the “war on drugs,” the United States is actively executing a blueprint for military intervention in Venezuela, employing lethal force and projecting power in a manner that legal institutions and regional leaders have condemned as a profound threat to international order. This aggression is not a law enforcement operation; it is the negation of law, a neocolonial revival of the Monroe Doctrine, designed to shatter the sovereignty of Venezuela, seize control of the world’s largest oil reserves, and install a compliant regime. (more…)
By Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and John Perry on October 14, 2025
image: Depositphotos
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” (more…)
By David Bacon on October 1, 2025
Tina Modotti [publicity still as “Rosa Carilla” in “Riding with Death”, 1921, photographer unknown]