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 Syara Salado Massip and Victor Villalba Gutiérrez on October 17, 2025, from Havana
Under the statue of Simón Bolívar that stands on Avenida de los Presidentes in Havana, a monument similar to the one in the Central Plaza of the city of Caracas, an entire people was gathered to support the sister Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. (more…)
By Alejandra Garcia on October 16, 2025
Venezuelans, Dr. José Gregorio Hernández and Mother Carmen Elena Rendiles will be canonized by Pope Leo XIV on October 19.
In three days Venezuela will experience a significant moment in its religious and cultural history: the canonization of its first two saints, Dr. Jose Gregorio Hernandez and Mother Carmen Elena Rendiles. The solemn ceremony will take place at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, presided over by Pope Leo XIV, marking a recognition in the spiritual life of the nation by elevating these two revered Venezuelans to the universal altar of the Catholic Church, all the while the Venezuelan people are being menaced by an armada of US warships off their shores and B-52 bombers flying overhead. (more…)
By Becca Renk on October 16, 2025
photo: Bill Hackwell
Portland, Oregon was my sanctuary as a teenager. I was a weird kid, a label I mostly embraced. But being different in my hometown rural north Idaho was exhausting. When I needed to recharge myself, I would drive the nine hours to Portland to bask in the city that accepted me just as I was. Maybe that is the Trump administration’s problem with Portland today: it is literally a sanctuary city. (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…)