By Raúl Antonio Capote on December 24, 2025
Mass mobilization for immigrant rights in Washington DC. May 2010, foto: Bill Hackwell.
More than 622,000 undocumented immigrants have been deported since Donald Trump returned to the White House
Since taking office in 2024, the current administration has implemented a series of policies that restrict and persecute immigration. More than 622,000 undocumented immigrants have been swept up and deported from the US since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20. (more…)
By Raúl Antonio Capote on December 22, 2025
Navy patrol boat from the boardwalk of Lake Maracaibo in Maracaibo Venezuela. Photo: EFE/ Henry Chirinos
On Tuesday, December 16, 2025, US President Donald Trump ordered a total blockade of “sanctioned” oil tankers bound for Venezuela. (more…)
December 23, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum highlighted the historic relationship between her country and Cuba and emphasized that agreements with the island in the energy sector are carried out within a legal framework. (more…)
By Carlos Aznárez. On December 23, 2025
image: Al Mayadeen
When the now much-quoted James Monroe uttered that famous phrase “America for Americans” in 1823, he could not have imagined that this sincere statement would run through the entire subsequent history of US foreign policy, much less that 200 years later one of his compatriots—as arrogant and ambitious as he was—would raise the stakes. (more…)
December 21, 2025 from Caracas
Screen grab from a video of the US Coast Guard boarding an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, constituting a new US imperialist aggression
Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez reported Saturday that Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) reached its goal of producing 1.2 million barrels of crude oil per day this year. Simultaneously, Washington announced the hijacking of a second Venezuelan oil tanker carrying the South American country’s crude this month, raising international and regional tensions about a disruption in oil supplies and potential military escalation. (more…)
By William Castillo Bolé on December 21, 2025
The sin we have committed in Venezuela is to dare, for the first time in a hundred years, to confront the gross privileges of a senseless and insensitive oligarchy… Hugo Chávez, January 2003 (more…)
By Roger D. Harris on December 20, 2025
In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real – over 100,000 fatalities from illegal sanctions and over a hundred from more recent “kinetic strikes.” Yet the officially stated justification for the US empire’s escalating offensive remains elusive. (more…)
Miguel Diaz Canel
December 19, 2025 from Havana
Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, closed the Sixth Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP) of its Tenth Legislature, held at the Convention Palace in Havana.
Here is the complete text (more…)