By John Perry on February 3, 2025
Marco Rubio meeting Sunday with Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino in Panama City. Photo: Freddie Everett
After intense pressure by the U.S. on Panama to return possession of its canal to Washington because the Trump administration thinks China is threatening it, the Central American nation on Sunday sought a compromise by announcing it would study whether or not to renew contracts with a Chinese company managing two ports on the waterway and would withdraw from China’s Belt and Road Initiative. (more…)
By Juana Carrasco Martín on February 4, 2025 from Havana
The “gibberish” was formed in Washington. The couple of the moment, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, closed USAID — the United States Agency for International Development, (more…)
By Ricardo Vaz on February 3, 2025
Lobbying efforts go from unlicensing Chevron to an “America-first” sanctions policy. (AFP)
Donald Trump’s return to the White House generated a lot of speculation about US foreign policy. In Venezuela, the memory of the “maximum pressure” regime-change campaign is very fresh. Plenty of wounds are still open. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on February 3, 2025
The Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA-TCP) announced today an ambitious project to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to benefit its member nations. This initiative comes as a response to the challenges faced by progressive governments in the digital era, where AI has become a powerful tool that can be used for both progress and manipulation. The project seeks to create a Center for Technology, Science and Innovation that will allow ALBA countries to develop in the field of AI and social networks, while promoting an ethical and responsible perspective for the benefit of their peoples. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on February 1, 2025
Hot off the newswires are shocking tales of democratic elections in Venezuela, grassroots organizations forming food cooperatives, and repatriation of migrants. What will one of the media establishment’s most demonized “authoritarian regimes” do next? (more…)
By Euge Murillo on February 2, 2025
“Thank you for so much beauty to fight cruelty”, was a phrase that slipped in, almost a whisper, very early on when the Plaza del Congreso began to fill up for an anti-fascist and anti-racist march in opposition to Milei, which was unexpected, spontaneous and multitudinous. (more…)
Statement from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs on February 1, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
On January 31, 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he had informed the U.S. Congress of the revocation of the suspension of the possibility of filing lawsuits in U.S. courts, pursuant to Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. (more…)
By Abdiel Rodríguez Reyes on February 1, 2025
Panamanian protesters “Neither gringos nor oligarchs, the canal for the homeland.” Photo: Pedro Silva.
The peoples have the right to decide their own collective destiny as established by the Bandung Conference in 1955 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, which was not gratuitous but a product of the struggle of the peripheral countries for their decolonization. (more…)