By Fernando Buen Abad on January 24, 2025
All the atrocities that Donald Trump invents would be inconsequential if we had a communication and semiotic front capable of generating timely and effective counter-offensives. Changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico is nothing less than a declaration of “symbolic war”. (more…)
By Zoe Alexandra on January 24, 2025
Hundreds of more troops from the Colombian Army have been deployed to Catatumbo in the last week. Photo: Minister of Defense Colombia
Social movements and community organizations are demanding peace as violence breaks out in the northeastern region of Colombia. In the last week, at least 80 people have been killed and over 32,000 people displaced in one of the deadliest bouts of violence in Colombia in recent years. (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on January 23, 2024
Internationalist in Venezuela for the inauguration of Nicolas Maduro and the World Antifascist Festival.
The first thing greeting me as I disembarked from my flight in Caracas was a wanted poster for one Edmundo González Urrutia. The reward was $100,000. Not to be outdone, the US had slapped a $25 million bounty on the head of President Maduro and lesser amounts on other Venezuelan leaders. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on January 23, 2025
family members mourn the death of 4 Afro-Ecuadorian youth by the Ecuadorian military. source; CEPR
Ecuador stands on the brink of a pivotal moment as it heads into presidential elections on February 9, with 13 million people preparing to choose a new government for the 2025-2029 period. Voters will not only elect the next president but also select 137 members of the unicameral National Assembly. (more…)
By Ignacio Ramonet on January 22, 2025
Every time we see MAGA on a red cap, let’s think of our MAGA, Mossadegh, Arbenz, Goulart and Allende, four heroes of freedom. Image: Sandra Sarmiento.
Abbreviated to MAGA, the slogan Make America Great Again! is the catchy political motto that identifies Donald Trump and his followers. Inspired by a very similar slogan of Ronald Reagan’s and repeated in the victorious campaigns of 2016 and 2024, MAGA has become popular as an aggressive brand, on eye-catching explosive red caps that all the fans of the Republican magnate flaunt. (more…)
By Luis Britto Garcia on January 22, 2025
Laura Richardson and the US Southern Command
The battles of Latin America and the Caribbean for independence and sovereignty were bloody. According to the estimation of the Liberator Simón Bolívar, they cost more than a third of the population. (more…)
photo: Bill Hackwell
Declaration of the Revolutionary Government on January 21, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump is lashing out against Cuba from day one and without any pretext. The decision to reestablish the iron economic war measures against Cuba, which his predecessor eliminated only days before, is a demonstration of the aggressiveness of U.S. imperialism against the sovereignty, peace and welfare of the Cuban population. (more…)
By Caitlin Johnstone on Jan 21, 2025
photo: Caitlin Johnstone
During his inaugural address, the new president of the United States was refreshingly open about the fact that Washington is the hub of a continuously expanding empire which is ruled by billionaire plutocrats. (more…)