By Ben Norton on March 27, 2025
Trump and Vance
At a summit held by a Silicon Valley venture capital firm , US Vice President JD Vance gave a speech about globalization that made it clear that Washington’s goal is to keep formerly colonized countries in the Global South trapped at the bottom of the global value chain through monopolistic control of advanced technologies. (more…)
March 27, 2025, Kingston Jamaica
Prime Minister Andrew Holness at a press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Kingston on Wednesday March 26.
In a diplomatic tug-of-war that underscores tensions between regional healthcare needs and U.S. foreign policy, Jamaica firmly rebuffed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s campaign to dismantle a program bringing Cuban doctors to Caribbean nations. (more…)
By Rodolfo Benítez Verson on March 26, 2025 in Geneva
Mr. President:
Israel threatens to exterminate the Palestinian population, under the unmoved gaze of the international community.
Not only are their human rights and all United Nations resolutions being flagrantly violated, but the Palestinian people are facing an existential threat. (more…)
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde on March 27, 2025
Trump decided that immigrants are the number one enemy of the United States, but it has surprised everyone that the hunt has also extended to South Florida, where the president’s best friends are. For the first time in more than 60 years, hundreds of Cuban immigrants, many of them women with no criminal record, are queuing up at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Broward, fearing that they will not be able to return home. (more…)
By Pablo Meriguet on March 26, 2025
“Migration is not a crime, sanctioning a people is” reads a sign at a march on March 25, in Caracas. Photo via VP Venezuela
The Venezuelan government has initiated all possible steps (political and legal) to achieve the return of its citizens. A US judge claimed “Nazis got better treatment” than the Venezuelans accused of gang activity. (more…)
By Vijay Prashad on March 27, 2025
As attacks on the media increase in Argentina and beyond, we reflect on the legacy of Rodolfo Walsh, a heroic journalist who fought the military dictatorship in Argentina with his pen. (more…)
By José Luis Granados Ceja on March 24, 2025
Trump keeps signing away threatening executive orders.
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States will impose a 25 percent tariff on all trade with countries purchasing oil or gas from Venezuela. Caracas responded to the measure, calling it “arbitrary, illegal and desperate” and accusing Washington of violating international trade agreements. (more…)
March 25, 2025
Until the designation as a “transnational criminal organization” by the US in 2024, the course of the now-disbanded group was narrated by a network of US think tanks, media and funds that constructed a discourse against the Bolivarian Revolution. This construction currently serves to justify sanctions, carry out mass deportations and feed the false idea of a failed state in Venezuela. (more…)