We are running this dignified response to Trump from Colombian president Gustavo Petro after he refused to allow 2 US military planes loaded with Colombian nationals deported in shackles from landing in the Latin American country. Trump in his anti immigrant crusade responded by threatening Colombia with tariffs of 50% on all Colombian products coming into the US if there wasn’t compliance. As of last night a tentative agreement has been reached between the two countries and Petro has sent Colombian planes to return them in a humane way. The corporate media is saying that Petro backed down but if you read this you will see a defiance against this anti immigrant revival of the Monroe Doctrine. How much indignity are the countries of Latin America supposed to endure? –editor (more…)
January 26, 2025
Richard Grenell before being appointed acting director of national intelligence in 2020. photo: Bernd von Jutrczenka, AFP
The new US administration is still calibrating its foreign policy approach towards Venezuela. At least, that is the impression that has been settled upon this week. (more…)
By Delfin Xiqués on January 26, 2025
First departure of Cuban children to Miami, via Varadero, as part of Operation Peter Pan. Photo: Granma Archives
Operation Peter Pan was one of the most perverse, monstrous and inhuman actions of the psychological warfare against Cuba deployed by the CIA to smuggle out of the country, through lies and manipulation, more than 14,000 children between six and 12 years of age. (more…)
By Atilio Boron on January 26, 2025 from Buenos Aires
Trump signs a plethora of reactionary executive orders in his first 24 hours. photo: Reuters
Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the signals he sent from the moment of his inauguration (which continued late into the night at the unexpected press conference that took place in the Oval Office) were tinged with an alarming mixture of arrogance and overconfidence. (more…)
By José Ernesto Nováez Guerrero on January 25, 2025 from Havana
Yes, Donald Trump has taken office as the 47th President of the United States. Due to the freezing temperatures, the ceremony had to be held indoors, which made the list of attendees even more select. Trump begins his second term with a majority for his party in the Senate and Congress, as well as the backing of an electoral victory in which he won not only the electoral vote but also the popular vote, even though his voters represent barely 30 percent of the total possible votes in the United States. (more…)
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…)