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How Trump tries to decide the elections in Brazil

6 min read Miguel Enrique Stedile 0 comments

MIGUEL ENRIQUE STÉDILE
On the Friday before the first round of Brazil's presidential elections, the U.S. embassy and consulates in the country remained closed, in compliance with a State Department directive citing "security reasons." The elections in Brazil are proceeding peacefully; there are no civil conflicts or military threats, no reports of political violence exceeding normal levels, and no threats against U.S. citizens or diplomatic facilities. However, this decision—which was inexplicably joined by the Australian embassy—is part of a series of measures taken by Washington to interfere in the Brazilian elections.

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The pomp and reality of strategic stability

9 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
Xi Jinping has left Washington after three days of unusual solemnity, even by the standards of diplomacy between the two superpowers. Ceremonies, honors, a military display, a state dinner, and meticulous presidential staging surrounded the Chinese leader's first state visit to Washington in over a decade. Much symbolism, therefore. But in terms of concrete results, considerably less.

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How the global food economy is killing children

7 min read VIJAY PRASHAD

VIJAY PRASHAD
Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million cases of illness and 1,5 million deaths; children suffer almost a third of these. This is the predictable result of a food economy organized around profits, not the right to food.

Nearly one in nine people worldwide become ill from consuming contaminated food, and the regions of Africa and Southeast Asia together account for almost three-quarters of all foodborne illnesses and 60% of deaths worldwide.

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How is Cuba experiencing the energy blockade?

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
Havana
Everyone seems outraged by Trump, his geopolitical interpretations, his political measures, and his wars. However, both politicians and mainstream media then agree with him that the situation in Cuba is desperate and on the verge of collapse. The scenario they promote is that of a failed state so that a military intervention can be interpreted not so much as aggression, but as salvation or, at the very least, something that cannot worsen the situation.

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Artificial intelligence threatens to increase inequality

5 min read STEVEN SEAMAN

STEVE SEAMAN
A quarter of the world's population, 2.200 billion people, still lack internet access, according to data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This digital divide risks widening with the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

In 2025, 85% of urban residents used the network, but almost half of the rural population (58%) still did not.

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The empire betrays itself

4 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

CAITLIN JOHNSTON
It used to be difficult to make Westerners see the depravity of the American empire. Now it's there, before everyone's eyes, with stark images of genocide and an incredibly perverse warmongering with direct economic consequences.

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From blockade to suffocation: the United States' war against Cuba enters its most brutal phase

5 min read MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS 0 comments

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum of a generator at a distant hospital and the murmur of a family gathered by candlelight. For them, “U.S. national security” is not an abstract concept debated on American cable news; it is the tangible reality of a 20-hour blackout, the smell of spoiled food, and the fear for a child’s refrigerated medication.

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With Nicolás Maduro on the eve of his kidnapping

8 min read IGNACIO RAMONET 0 comments

IGNACIO RAMONET
It was a month ago. On the night of January 2-3, 2026. It was a few minutes before 2:00 a.m. on that sinister Saturday… We were shocked by the brutality of the attack under the full moon. The violence of the successive explosions. The columns of dark smoke. The intensity of the flames illuminating a stunned, sleepless, and silent Caracas. And then, like a punch to the gut, the news of the kidnapping…

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Watershed

4 min read FARRUCO SESTO

FARRUCO SESTO
I want to begin this note by paying a small personal tribute to my president Nicolás Maduro Moros, who is the president of all Venezuelans, and in whom I recognize, in addition to being a good man, a great revolutionary.

We saw Nicolás in some images and videos that surfaced, and in all of them he appears unharmed, surrounded by his kidnappers, with great dignity, even managing to send his people the message that “we will win” by gesturing with his hands. And perhaps, in passing, a message to the world as well.

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The Venezuelan revolution is still standing: dismantling Trump's psychological operation

10 min read MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS 0 comments

MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS
Following the illegal US operation against Venezuela, a deliberate disinformation campaign has been carried out to sow doubts about the survival of the country's revolution.

The execution of “Operation Absolute Resolve” by the United States, a targeted bombing and the illegal kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, has created a moment of profound crisis, but also of profound clarity.

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Why did Trump send his warships to Venezuela?

5 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

VIJAY PRASHAD
Since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has tried to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, the selection of a replacement president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing multiple sanctions, sabotaging the electrical grid, sending mercenaries, and attempting to assassinate its leaders.

If you can think of any method to overthrow a government, chances are the United States has tried it against Venezuela.

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Nelson Hadad: Netanyahu plans to annex Palestine to Greater Israel

7 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Nelson Hadad is a Chilean lawyer and university professor. He served as Chile's ambassador to Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt. At the end of July, in response to the crimes committed by Benjamin Netanyahu's government in the Gaza Strip, he decided to draft a letter requesting Israel's expulsion from the UN. We spoke with him about the conflict in the Middle East.