By Roger D. Harris on March 24, 2026
In the wake of Washington’s January 3 military attack and then problematic détente with Caracas, corporate media suggest a meaningful shift in Venezuela policy, implying relief for a country long subjected to economic coercion. However, far from dismantling the sanctions regime, the US has merely adjusted its application through licensing mechanisms, leaving the core structure of coercive measures fully intact. (more…)
Por Sergio Zabalza, 20 de marzo de 2026
El 24 de marzo de 1976 impuso un antes y un después en la historia argentina. Fue la fecha en que, para cambiar el patrón de acumulación de riqueza a favor del capitalismo financiero, un gobierno de facto impuso el terrorismo de estado en todo el territorio argentino. La Junta Militar argentina recurrió al accionar de la guerrilla urbana para justificar el más atroz programa de exterminio que nuestra América Latina conociera desde la emancipación de España y Portugal, campos y vuelos de la muerte incluidos. La cifra de 30.000 personas secuestradas, torturadas y desaparecidas, más cientos de niños y niñas apropiados refleja el horror que el poder económico dispuso –y que los militares ejecutaron– con la anuencia de la Iglesia y los grandes medios de comunicación y el apoyo de parte de la sociedad civil. (more…)
March 23, 2026
Lula at CELAC
The Colonize Hemisphere talk emerged as a central theme when Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva delivered a forceful speech at the CELAC-Africa High-Level Forum in Bogotá on March 21, 2026. Before heads of state and delegations, Lula issued one of his sharpest critiques of US foreign policy in recent years. (more…)
By Helen Yaffe on March 23, 2026
There were tearful scenes in the central American nation of Honduras on February 23, as locals said goodbye to the Cuban healthcare professionals who had been treating them for free for around two years. It came after the Honduran government abruptly ended the Cuban medical mission under pressure from the administration of the US president, Donald Trump. (more…)
March 22, 2026
opening event at ICAP
As the Trump Administration ratchets up its threats of war and economic strangulation on Cuba the international Nuestra América Convoy has arrived in Cuba. The convoy unites more than 600 solidarity activists from 38 nations, representing over 140 social, political, and cultural organizations across nearly every continent. Participants include parliamentarians, judges, ambassadors, intellectuals, trade unionists, and community leaders committed to justice and sovereignty. (more…)
By Sergio Zabalza on March 20, 2026
there are 30,000
March 24, 1976, marked a turning point in Argentine history. It was the date on which, to shift the pattern of wealth accumulation in favor of financial capitalism, a de facto government imposed state terrorism across the entire Argentine territory. (more…)
By Hedelberto López Blanch on March 19, 2026
cartoon by: Adán
A few months ago, I wrote an article about planned obsolescence, a key pillar of capitalism, as manufacturers create products that expire over time so that consumers will buy newer ones—and that is practically what is happening with the UN, which, after 80 years, needs a makeover because it has already become obsolete. (more…)
By Cindy Forster on March 22, 2026
Leonardo Loza, center, candidate for governor of the department of Cochabamba, in the heart of the most organized left in Bolivia.
Bolivia’s capitalist elites are losing their grip this week in their efforts to crush socialist candidates in “sub-national” elections to be held on March 20. Socialists, most of them Indigenous and campesino, have been elected in assemblies to run as candidates at all levels of local government. The rightwing is terrified of competing with the poor in elections, and to avoid that eventuality, it is illegitimately disqualifying leftist candidates and their parties. The twentieth-century oligarchy won the presidency last November in exactly this fashion, via illicit court rulings. (more…)